Shanny Basar
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TT Partners with SIGMA AI
In July Trading Technologies International (TT), the capital markets technology provider, made a minority investment in SIGMA AI, a fintech specializing in real-time data and AI-driven insights. SIGMA AI is also developing a proprietary AI and inn...
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UK, EU Set Roadmaps for T+1
The UK, Switzerland and the European Union have published plans to shorten their settlement cycle by one day to T+1, the day after a trade. The U.S and Canada moved to T+1 in May 2024 and DTCC, the country’s central post-trade infrastructure, said...
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KCx Partners with BMLL to Speed Roll Out of New Trading System
KCx, the execution services division of independent European broker Kepler Cheuvreux, accelerated the development of its trading technology stack by using historical data from BMLL to build a new smart order router. The firm is building KCx Omni,...
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Retirement Plans “On Cusp” of Including Private Assets
Marc Rowan, chairman and chief executive at Apollo Global Management, said on the results call on 5 August 2025 that the numbers for the second quarter were “nothing short of extraordinary.” Rowan said Apollo was launched to serve the smallest bu...
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Coinbase Wants to Help Build the Next 1,000 Coinbases
Brian Armstrong, co-founder and chief executive of Coinbase, compared the way the company is using its “deep” experience in building crypto infrastructure to power the next wave of businesses coming into this space to Amazon expanding cloud infras...
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New Cboe CEO Reallocates Resources to Best Growth Opportunities
Cboe’s second quarter results call on 1 August was the first for Craig Donohue, the new chief executive who replaced Fredric Tomczyk in May. Donohue said that since taking on the role he has been impressed by the power of Cboe’s suite of cash, dat...
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Reaction: SEC to Launch “Project Crypto”
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is launching Project Crypto, an initiative to modernize the securities rules and regulations to enable America’s financial markets to move on-chain. Chris Giancarlo, former CFTC chairman, said: http...
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ICE to Offer Secondary Whole Loan Trading Platform
ICE is aiming to find ways to use its mortgage data to increase transparency in the secondary capital markets and plans to launch secondary whole loan trading platform in the second half of this year Ben Jackson, president of ICE and chair of ICE...
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