The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (Tase) is making a move into digital asset products and services after inking a deal with vendor Fireblocks.

The UK Government has opened consultations on the introduction of a Digital Securities Sandbox (DSS), to test innovative new market infrastructures for digital assets.

The Fintech Open Source Foundation (Finos) is forming an open standard project to describe consistent controls for compliant public cloud deployments in the financial services sector.

EquiLend, the securities lending trading platform owned by 10 major Wall Street firms, is being acquired by private equity firm Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe (WCAS).

Despite finding room for improvements in the distribution of wholesale market data, the Financial Conduct Authority has ruled out intervention for fear of “unintended consequences”.

JPMorgan Chase is using OpenAI’s GPT-4 model for a range of thematic investment baskets, according to Bloomberg.

BNY has integrated its entperisie AI platform, Eliza, with Google Cloud’s agentic model Gemini, providing deeper research capabilities for market analysis and equipping the company’s global workforce with access to multimodal features.

Retail investment platform PrimaryBid is in talks with several financial institutions and investors about a possible takeover.

TransFicc, a London-based provider of low-latency connectivity and workflow services for fixed income and derivatives markets, has raised $25 million in Series B investment led by Citadel Securities.

The World Bank released a report outlining how countries should redefine how they disclose debt due to more complexity in the current financing environment.

The research is funded by the University of California, Berkeley’s Centre for Responsible Decentralized Intelligence, and will involve collaboration between Warwick’s own Dr Ganesh Viswanath-Natraj, Ripple Research, and the University Blockchain Research Initiative (UBRI), the $50 million research division of Ripple.

Manchester Digital has launched a Manifesto for the Northern Tech Economy ahead of the mayoral elections that will take place on May 2nd.

Struggling French payment firm Worldline is to offload its Swedish payments orchestration business CoreOrchestration to Incore Invest in an all-cash transaction valued at €160m.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has denied a petition from crypto exchange Coinbase asking the regulator to put in place new rules specifically for the digital asset sector.

The founder of crypto exchange Binance, Changpeng “CZ” Zhao, has been sentenced to four months in prison in the US after pleading guilty to violating anti-money laundering requirements.