Spain-based CaixaBank is the latest institution to claim a quantum computing breakthrough with the development of an application for portfolio hedging using the nascent technology.
Japan-based securities firm Nomura is set to establish a digital asserts business to cater for a growing institutional demand to trade cryptocurrencies.
The London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) has taken a further step into the digital assets trading world with the acquisition of multi-asset order management system (OMS) vendor Tora.
Wealth management platform FNZ has completed a $1.4 billion equity funding round that gives the company a valuation in excess of $20 billion.
The biggest market risk in the minds of young retail investors is a crash in cryptocurrency value. Yet despite this, more than half (56%) still plan to increase their allocation to the likes of bitcoin.
Two digital settlement operators have teamed up to develop a protocol designed to bring interoperability to the tokenisation market.
The European Securities and Markets Authority (Esma) has taken on a mandate to directly supervise the EU’s largest market data providers.
A newly published research paper has cast doubt on the effectiveness of machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) in equity trading by suggesting that humans are still more effective than their algorithmic counterparts when it comes to beating the stock market.
Allianz X, the digital investments arm of asset manager and insurer Allianz, has led a $21 million funding round for London-based fintech OpenGamma.
Post-trade services group Clearstream has launched an application programming interface (API) for primary market issuance of Eurobonds in a move designed to bring more digital capability to the fixed income market.
