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In Friday's edition of the Forefront Fintech Digest Week in Review: @MSCI_Inc and @SimCorp expand their collaboration to enhance buy-side access to private market data, @Broadridge invests in agentic AI tech provider @DeepSeeHQ to accelerate automation across post-trade capital markets operations and a yearlong investigation into @BankofAmerica by India’s financial regulator found that the bank shared confidential information ahead of a $180 million block trade of stock. Catch up on all of these stories and more of the week’s top capital markets & fintech headlines in the full newsletter below: hubs.la/Q03-D80C0

In today’s edition of the Forefront Fintech Digest Week in Review: @Coinbase announces its entry into prediction markets and equities trading, @LSEGplc and @Citi announce a multi-year strategic partnership to deploy LSEG’s data, analytics and workflow solutions at an enterprise scale and @Trading_Tech acquires derivatives margin analytics platform @OpenGamma. Catch up on these stories and more of the week’s top fintech & capital market headlines in the full newsletter: hubs.la/Q03YMVZz0

In today’s edition of the Forefront Fintech Digest Week in Review: Jefferies sets up a fixed income desk for outsourced trading as it pushes for further market share in the growing sector, Two Sigma Investments is starting new hedge funds and drawing fresh cash despite an long-running feud between its billionaire founders and a Chicago data center used by CME Group overheats on Thanksgiving and shuts down trades in key markets across the globe. Catch up on these stories and more of the week’s top capital markets & fintech headlines in the full newsletter: hubs.la/Q03X6Qln0

📰 In today’s edition of the Forefront Fintech Digest Week in Review: Kalshi’s CEO says prediction markets could rival stocks within years, Millennium faces big questions after its $14 billion valuation and the SEC’s massive post-shutdown filing backlog may stall US IPOs. Catch up on these stories and more of the week’s top fintech & capital markets headlines in the full newsletter: hubs.la/Q03Vsn4S0

📰 In today’s edition of the Forefront Fintech Digest Week in Review: Trading Technologies announces the close of the previously announced investment from leading software investment firm Thoma Bravo, Morgan Stanley adds KKR-backed wealth startup Corastone to speed up trades and Cboe Global Markets is planning to launch its own prediction markets offering within months, but will avoid products related to sports for now. Catch up on these stories and more of the week’s top fintech & capital market headlines in the full newsletter: hubs.la/Q03TlBSq0

In our latest edition of the Forefront Fintech Digest Week in Review: Trading data and analytics provider BMLL is set to be acquired by private equity investor Nordic Capital, and LSEG announces a collaboration with Anthropic, granting access to data licensed through LSEG products, like Workspace and Financial Analytics, for Claude customers. Plus: President Donald Trump has picked Michael Selig to chair the CFTC. Check out these stories and more of the week’s top capital markets and fintech headlines in the full newsletter: hubs.la/Q03Rrkmn0

In this edition of the Forefront Fintech Digest Week in Review: @Citi outlines how stablecoins could power the next growth phase for crypto, market experts emphasize why data integrity matters most amid rising financial noise, and @AWSCloud’s recent outage leaves data providers scrambling while exchanges remain largely unaffected. Catch up on these stories and more of the week’s top fintech and capital markets headlines in the full newsletter: hubs.la/Q03QqSHV0 #Fintech #CapitalMarkets #MarketStructure #Blockchain #Crypto #DigitalAssets #Trading #FintechNews

In this edition of the Forefront Fintech Digest Week in Review: Clear Street enhances its 24/6 market access with the integration of Bruce Markets’ Bruce ATS, @SPGlobal strikes a deal to buy market data and analytics firm With Intelligence for $1.8 billion and @JPMorgan looks to scale up its blockchain and crypto exposure and is now developing plans to offer cryptocurrency trading services. Catch up on all of these stories and more of the week’s top capital markets and fintech headlines in the full newsletter: hubs.la/Q03P9VlB0 #Fintech #CapitalMarkets #MarketStructure #Blockchain #Crypto #DigitalAssets #Trading #FintechNews

📰In today’s edition of the Forefront Fintech Digest Week in Review: ICE announces a $2bn strategic investment in prediction market Polymarket, investigators at the SEC probe Chicago-based startup Dream Exchange and its ties to the Church of Scientology and Blue Ocean Technologies, LLC announces the integration of its real-time overnight data into NYSE Cloud Streaming. Catch up on all of these stories and more of the week’s top capital markets + fintech headlines in the full newsletter 👇 hubs.la/Q03N5H5h0 #capitalmarkets #fintech #marketstructure #trading #regulation #financialmarkets #regulatorynews #marketnews #fintechnews

In today’s edition of the Forefront Fintech Digest Week in Review: The White House pulls Brian Quintenz’s nomination to chair the CFTC, Archax acquires the crypto trading business of Gibraltar registered broker LondonLink and MEMX is due to launch a second options exchange in the second quarter of 2026 after its first options venue reached record monthly market share this year. Catch up on all of these stories and more of the week’s top capital markets and fintech headlines in the full newsletter: hubs.la/Q03M9dQX0

In Friday's edition of the Forefront Fintech Digest Week in Review: Morgan Stanley is partnering with cryptocurrency infrastructure provider zerohash to let E*Trade clients trade popular coins, leading provider of independent investment insights Morningstar enters into an agreement to acquire the CRSP, a premier provider of historical stock market data and indexes for $375 million and nine European banks have joined forces to launch a MiCAR-compliant euro-denominated stablecoin. Catch up on all of these stories + more of the week’s top capital markets + fintech headlines in the full newsletter, published every Friday ⬇️ hubs.la/Q03LpQwm0

"Mizuho Joins Versana to Expand the Digital Transformation of the Broadly Syndicated Loan Market" via @PRNewswire: hubs.la/Q03L0Rdf0

"Sage Capital Management partners with EDXM International to deliver institutional access to differentiated perpetual futures liquidity": hubs.la/Q03L0S960 @edxmintl

"STA Announces Program for Milestone 10th Annual Women in Finance Symposium" via @PRNewswire: hubs.la/Q03L0QpR0 @STA_National

"Regnology Announces 32nd Annual RegTech Convention on 17-20 November" via @Businesswire: hubs.la/Q03L0Dl20

"Expero Repositions as Finance-Focused Firm, Harnessing Over Two Decades of Expertise to Deliver High-Impact, AI-Powered User Experiences" via @PRNewswire: hubs.la/Q03L0gRm0

In today’s edition of the Forefront Fintech Digest Week in Review: IEX Group wins SEC approval to open a new options exchange that would offer a unique way to slow down options trading, D.E. Shaw is raising money for a new hedge fund that will let human traders call all of the shots for the first time and investment research authoring and distribution platform Blue Matrtix acquires FactSet’s RMS Partners to expand its global footprint. Catch up on these stories and more of the week’s top capital markets + fintech headlines in the full newsletter: hubs.la/Q03K7xx70

In the latest episode of “At the Forefront”: @STA_National CEO @JimToes26 joins us for a preview of the 92nd Annual Market Structure Conference, “Redefining the Market”. Listen for the full details on this year’s event: hubs.la/Q03JXJJ80

"Receipts Depositary Corporation (@ReceiptsDepo) Joins Canton Network as a Validator and DR Depositary to Enhance Cross-Border Asset Mobility" via @PRNewswire: hubs.la/Q03JLQnG0