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Bushel and StoneX have agreed on a new partnership aimed at connecting farmer-facing digital tools with grain merchandising workflows. In a press release on Tuesday, the firms stated that the move is expected to reduce manual processes and improve operational efficiency for ...

FTSE Russell and CanDeal Data & Analytics (DNA) have renewed and expanded their partnership, agreeing a 10-year extension that is expected to deepen the use of Canadian fixed-income pricing data across FTSE Canada indices. The new agreement, announced on Tuesday, will see FT...

TradingView has integrated Fitch credit ratings into its platform, the company announced Tuesday.  The move will give traders and investors using the platform the ability to compare ratings from two major agencies side by side as part of their bond-market workflow. The comp...

Klarna announced it has doubled the size of its forward-flow and whole-loan sale agreement with investment funds managed by Elliott Investment Management.  The move expands the facility to $2 billion and extends its term to three years as demand for its U.S. Financing produ...

Circle Internet Group has announced a new collaboration with Sasai Fintech, part of Cassava Technologies, to expand access to USDC and develop on-chain financial infrastructure across Africa. Circle said the partnership will explore practical uses of USDC, a fully reserved, ...

Speedinvest and SBI Ventures Europe announced Wednesday that they have formed a joint venture aimed at strengthening long-term capital flows between Japan and Europe’s technology ecosystem. The joint venture is expected to create a new investment bridge for institutional i...

Clear Street has expanded its institutional offering with the launch of a new digital asset trading capability, enabling U.S. clients to execute large-scale over-the-counter spot cryptocurrency trades through Clear Street Digital.  The company revealed in its release that t...

CMC Markets announced on Monday that it has launched a new multi-asset platform.  The new platform is said to be designed to offer retail, professional and institutional clients a single interface for trading and investing across global markets.  CMC explained that the ser...

STOKR has appointed Subhankar Sinha as senior adviser to support the firm’s push into fund tokenisation and strengthen its institutional presence in the US market.  Sinha is expected to work with the Luxembourg-based company’s leadership on money market fund tokenisatio...

Nasdaq and Talos have formed a partnership to connect Talos’s digital asset infrastructure with Nasdaq’s Calypso and Trade Surveillance platforms.  The companies said in a release that the integration aims to close structural gaps that have prevented tokenised collatera...

Stash Capital LLC has been censured and fined $450,000 by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority after the regulator found the firm failed to maintain adequate anti-money-laundering and identity-theft controls between January 2019 and June 2023. FINRA said Stash Capital...

HSBC announced that it has appointed David Rice as its first Chief AI Officer as part of a broader push to embed artificial intelligence across the organisation.  Rice will take up the role on 1 April, with the bank saying the position provides enterprise-level leadership f...

Ledger announced last week that it has appointed finance veteran John Andrews as its new chief financial officer.  The company also revealed it has opened a New York City office as part of a multi-million-dollar investment to scale its U.S. presence. Ledger secures more tha...

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has opened an enforcement investigation into Market Financial Solutions Limited (MFS), which entered administration on 25 February. The regulator said MFS was registered only for compliance with the UK’s Money Laundering, Terrorist Fin...

TradingView revealed last week that it has added live market data from Singapore-based Antarctic Exchange, which enables users to chart its perpetual contracts directly on the platform. The integration is said to give traders access to pairs including BTCUSDT.P, ETHUSDT.P an...

On Friday, Compagnie Financière Tradition revealed an 11.4 percent increase in revenue to CHF 1.20 billion in 2025 on a constant-currency basis. The rise was said to have been supported by heightened market activity amid shifting global monetary policy and rising geopolitic...

Virtu Financial said Monday that Nissay Asset Management Corporation has adopted its Triton execution management system to enhance trading efficiency across global markets. The move follows a detailed vendor evaluation process. Nissay Asset Management, a wholly owned subsidi...

Virex Market has partnered with Spotware Systems to adopt the cTrader platform as the foundation of its trading environment.  The broker is aiming to deliver a more advanced and transparent experience for clients. It said the partnership aligns with its focus on building a ...

LCH RepoClear and Clearstream have expanded their collaboration to allow settlement of Dutch government debt through Clearstream’s pan-European central securities depository solution. The upgrade enables RepoClear members to settle both cash and repo transactions in Dutch ...

Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) has launched ICE Private Credit Intelligence, a data platform to increase transparency in the fast-growing private credit market. The service is being supported by anchor partner Apollo, with additional firms expected to join in the coming mon...