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The end of August. Just as Noah Kahan predicted. Announced this week Google Cloud launches Gemini Enterprise for financial firms Google Cloud unveiled Gemini Enterprise for Financial Services, an agentic AI solution engineered for financial professionals. This solution includes a Google-managed financial research agent, more than 50 new skills with specialized agentic instructions for financial roles and workflows, enterprise data connectors, and a third-party agent ecosystem.

This week, Tony, Reb, and Shen talk about non-tech things. Emerging Technologies More Less Wei-Shen Wong, Asia editor, and Anthony Malakian, editor-in-chief of WatersTechnology, record a weekly podcast touching on the biggest stories in financial technology. To hear the full interview, listen in the player above, or you can click on the download button in the player above. You can also listen to us on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. It’s the last week of August.

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Capital markets is an industry that primarily transacts in information and tirelessly searches for risk-weighted returns across millions of different options and scenarios. Understanding of risk and opportunity is increasingly reliant on empirical and historical data to drive quantitative methods rather than relying on fundamental analysis and human judgment of how macroeconomic forces drive investment decisions.

Artificial intelligence may be transforming the global capital markets at an unprecedented pace, but one of its key principles remains unchanged: the quality of any AI model is only as good as the data underpinning it. As market participants accelerate their use of AI strategies, the focus is shifting from algorithms to the quality, integrity and accessibility of the underlying data feeding them.

The bigger picture or the better picture first? It’s a question for the European Union’s top markets watchdog as it embarks on a radical plan to streamline three different reporting regimes. In July, the European Securities and Markets Authority published a final report setting out its vision to simplify the bloc’s raft of regulations. By reducing their reporting burden, it aims to cut firms’ compliance costs and boost profitability. Dubbed ‘report once,’ Esma’s plan is to rationalize the demands

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By 2026, most investment banks have completed the first wave of digital compliance transformation. Optical character recognition (OCR), biometric authentication, and electronic identity verification are now table stakes across institutional onboarding desks. But these applications were built to capture data, not to make judgment calls.

As temperatures finally start to drop in the UK, I’m trying to figure out if the crunchy, orangey leaves are a sign of autumn finally being on the way, or because of the drought. … Anyway, here’s the news. Announced this week Citi reveals Custody+ Citi Investor Services has launched Custody+, a suite of near- and real-time tools to help institutional investors navigate compressed settlement cycles, continuous markets, and AI-driven decision-making.