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Vault Summit in Singapore spotlights onchain finance

Institutions are testing vaults to cut back-office costs and enforce risk rules in onchain lending as tokenised finance matures.

By Karen Joy Bacudo • 6 min read • Last week

Data centers

JLL marks 20 years in Vietnam as property market expands

Vietnam's expanding property market has helped JLL build a 350-strong local team, with industrial, logistics and data centres now driving demand.

By Mara Sugue • 3 min read • This month

Global Stories

Capital Markets stories

Private Cloud

Google Cloud unveils ultra-low latency tools for markets

Exchanges and trading firms can now run latency-sensitive workloads in Google Cloud private regions, as it targets co-location-like timing predictability.

By Mara Sugue • 4 min read • 3 days ago

Data governance

ActiveViam partners Databricks on real-time risk analytics

Banks can now run repeatable risk calculations inside Databricks without moving data out, keeping audit trails and governance controls intact.

By Joseph Gabriel Lagonsin • 4 min read • 3 days ago

The Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation

DTCC warns Europe T+1 will force post-trade overhaul

Europe's shift to T+1 settlement could leave banks and brokers with less room for error as failed trades and manual processes rise.

By Karen Joy Bacudo • 4 min read • 3 days ago

Data centers

Finance firms seek trust as AI moves into decisions

As AI takes on more finance decisions, banks and investors are demanding audit trails and human oversight before relying on its outputs.

By Karen Joy Bacudo • 4 min read • 4 days ago

Digital Transformation

Broadridge holds third in IDC FinTech Rankings again

Financial institutions' spending on core systems has kept Broadridge in third place in IDC's FinTech rankings for a fourth straight year.

By Karen Joy Bacudo • 3 min read • 4 days ago

Fintech

Deutsche Bank deploys Farsight AI on-premises for bankers

The rollout lets bankers use AI on sensitive client work while keeping data inside Deutsche Bank's own technology environment.

By Karen Joy Bacudo • 4 min read • This month

Disaster Recovery

GFF AI appoints Meenakshi Arekar as chief risk officer

As AI moves into core operations, the hire is designed to strengthen governance and resilience for regulated customers in Australia.

By Mara Sugue • 4 min read • Last week

Crypto

MoonPay appoints Anne Giviskos as chief financial officer

The hire comes as MoonPay widens beyond payments, with recent deals and products pushing it deeper into trading infrastructure and onchain markets.

By Sofiah Nichole Salivio • 3 min read • Last week

Private Cloud

Balyasny deploys Gemini across internal research platforms

The hedge fund's analysts are getting faster access to market signals as Gemini scans transcripts, filings and data inside private systems.

By Karen Joy Bacudo • 4 min read • Last week

Fintech

Nasdaq Ventures backs One Trading in derivatives push

The backing could help test whether around-the-clock equity futures trading can work under European oversight, with the investment size undisclosed.

By Karen Joy Bacudo • 4 min read • This month

Real estate

Private wealth buyers snap up Asia, Europe real estate

Higher construction costs and sharp price resets are luring private capital into office and other assets, with some deals below replacement cost.

By Mara Sugue • 4 min read • This month

Entrepreneurship

Ireland startups face funding gap as scale-up push grows

Irish founders risk being forced overseas to raise later-stage cash unless the new €1 billion scaling fund eases the gap, speakers warned.

By Sofiah Nichole Salivio • 6 min read • This month

Fintech

Broadridge repo platform hits USD $7.5 trillion in September

Tokenised repo is moving into routine institutional processing, with Broadridge's platform averaging USD $359 billion a day in September.

By Sofiah Nichole Salivio • 3 min read • This month

Risk & Compliance

Gresham launches AI tool to speed reconciliation controls

Financial firms could cut delays in reconciliation changes as business users build controls without coding and test them before they go live.

By Karen Joy Bacudo • 3 min read • This month

Stories from Other Regions

Capital Markets stories

NZX

Lodestone Energy secures IPO backing for NZX debut

Renewed appetite for new equity issues in New Zealand is set to be tested by the solar developer's first major float in about five years.

By Joseph Gabriel Lagonsin • 3 min read • Last week

Digital Transformation

UBS picks BT to modernise global trader communications

The rollout gives more than 2,400 traders a single cloud-based voice platform, replacing fragmented systems across 17 countries and improving compliance.

By Sofiah Nichole Salivio • 3 min read • Last week