Technology

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,...

Failed trades are becoming a more consequential operational issue as securities markets move toward shorter settlement cycles. From the perspective of World Finance Informs, the shift is less about assuming that a faster settlement cycle will automatically lead to...

Securities financing is becoming more time-sensitive as shorter settlement cycles change the pace at which securities and collateral need to move through the market. For World Finance Informs, the shift is important because securities lending and repo support the...

The move toward faster settlement is changing how market participants manage the period between trade execution and final settlement. For World Finance Informs, the development points to a broader operational shift across securities markets: activities that once had more...

BNP Paribas and Google Cloud are expanding their collaboration through a five-year agreement focused on artificial intelligence, cloud infrastructure and the development of agentic AI in banking. The agreement will expand BNP Paribas' access to Google Cloud's AI-optimised infrastructure,...

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...