Banking

Market transparency is increasingly dependent on how quickly and consistently financial information can be collected, consolidated and distributed across fragmented trading venues. The development is significant because market participants often need to combine data from multiple sources before building...

Financial reporting frameworks are being redesigned as regulators and market participants look to reduce duplicated submissions and make reported information more reusable. The shift is significant because fragmented reporting can require the same transaction details to move through multiple...

Digital securities are moving beyond issuance and settlement experiments as financial institutions explore their use in collateral and financing workflows. The development is significant because collateral markets depend on the rapid movement, valuation and reuse of assets across multiple...

Tokenised markets are moving from isolated experimentation toward closer integration with established financial infrastructure as institutions test how distributed-ledger-based assets can settle within regulated market systems. The development is becoming more concrete as central banks, market infrastructures and financial...

Settlement hours are becoming a more important part of financial-market infrastructure as payments, trading activity and liquidity management extend beyond traditional business-day boundaries. The broader implication for financial markets is not simply whether settlement systems should remain open for longer,...

Britain's largest banks have completed live interbank transactions using tokenised deposits, marking the first time commercial-bank money has moved between separate financial institutions through shared blockchain-based infrastructure. The milestone emerged from the Great British Tokenised Deposit project, a collaborative...

Murex and Google Cloud have formed a strategic partnership to enable the deployment of Murex’s MX.3 financial technology platform on Google Cloud, giving financial institutions another option for running critical capital markets workloads in the cloud. The collaboration comes as...