The UK is poised to become one of the world’s next generation of fintech leaders, with its national approach to digital finance and AI potentially supporting further advances in financial inclusion, according to the 2026 Global Financial Inclusion Index from Principal Financial Group and the Centre for Economics and Business Research (Cebr).
Brown Brothers Harriman has announced the launch of NAVqc, described as a new solution to help asset managers, management companies, and service providers more effectively fulfil their NAV oversight obligations across third-party administrators, while reducing cost and risk.
The UK, EU and Switzerland will transition to a T+1 settlement cycle on 11 October 2027. In this article, Andrew Douglas, Chair of the UK Accelerated Settlement Taskforce, warns that accelerated settlement will eliminate more than 80 per cent of the time to correct post-trade errors, making process automation essential to keeping up with new efficiency demands.
Neel Khokhani, Epochal Corporation, writes that for the past decade, the infrastructure investment community has operated on a seductive premise: that the future of computing belongs to whoever builds the biggest facilities.
Axiory.ai is launching a platform designed to allow artificial intelligence (AI) agents to interact with financial markets through a single standardised environment.
SEI has announced it has joined forces with IBM to accelerate enterprise transformation through agentic AI and automation and modernise how it operates, innovates, and delivers value to clients.
Agent-native AI platform Palindrome recently announced that it had been selected to join the Microsoft and NVIDIA Agentic Launchpad programme, a new initiative designed to accelerate the development of intelligent enterprise applications.
Canoe Intelligence and Confluence Technologies, Inc. have announced a partnership integrating Canoe Connect and Canoe Intelligence with Confluence PARis — Portfolio Analytics and Reporting Information System.
Bravura has published new research highlighting that fragmentation in the funds industry is ramping up risk and cost for firms.
The Canadian Depository for Securities Limited (CDS), a wholly-owned subsidiary of TMX Group Limited (TMX Group), has implemented upgrades to CDS’s foundational clearing technology, designed under its post trade modernisation initiative (PTM), which includes the replacement of certain legacy systems related to clearing and settlement, as well as depository and entitlement payments.
