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The Confidence Dividend: Tackling Financial Crime To Strengthen Markets - Speech By Therese Chambers, UK Financial Conduct Authority Joint Executive Director Of Enforcement And Market Oversight, Delivered At AFME's European Compliance And Legal Conference 2025

Date 23/09/2025

Key messages:

• Confidence is the foundation of competitive markets and economic growth. Tackling the financial crime that damages confidence in financial services is an FCA priority.
• That confidence comes from action across the whole system, not just enforcement. The FCA is playing its part to build confidence through empowering consumers, being more assertive in authorisations and supervision, and supporting innovation.
• The UK has considerable strengths and should feel confident about the future. From market reforms to proactive outreach and international cooperation, the FCA is strengthening the UK’s reputation for integrity and competitiveness in wholesale markets.

US VC Funding Value Soars 64% YoY Even As Deal Volume Dips 5% During January-August 2025, Finds GlobalData

Date 23/09/2025

The US venture capital (VC) landscape registered a 64% year-on-year (YoY) surge in funding value during January to August 2025 even as deal activity slipped 5%. Investors are backing fewer but larger deals, signaling a preference for scale and impact. With landmark billion-dollar raises, the US has reinforced its dominance in global VC funding, reveals GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company.

Jacobi Partners With Charles River To Empower Scalable Model Portfolio Management

Date 23/09/2025

Jacobi Inc. today announced its integration with the Charles River Investment Management Solution (Charles River IMS), supporting institutional asset managers and wealth managers in scaling their model portfolio capabilities.

Deutsche Börse Group Integrates Social Media Intelligence Into Market Surveillance Technology

Date 23/09/2025

• Combination of leading market data analysis with social media intelligence provides a more comprehensive market overview.
• Collaboration between Scila and Stockpulse utilizes AI and enables near real-time access to millions of social media data points.
• Deutsche Börse is an early adopter leveraging this proactive and broadened surveillance offering.

Market Data Delivery Shift To Cloud Reaches New Heights, According To New Study: SIX And Crisil Coalition Greenwich

Date 23/09/2025

The majority (80%) of asset managers now view artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) as a key driver of market data delivery and consumption over the next two years, according to new research by SIX, the global financial information provider, and Crisil Coalition Greenwich.

LSEG And Databricks Partner To Bring AI-Ready Financial Data Natively To Databricks For Analytics, AI Apps And Agents - With Databricks Agent Bricks, Financial Teams Can Build Governed AI Agents On Their Enterprise Data And LSEG’s Industry-Leading Data

Date 23/09/2025

LSEG and Databricks today announced a strategic partnership to deliver LSEG’s industry-leading data natively in Databricks via Delta Sharing. The partnership will launch with Lipper Fund Data & Analytics and Cross Asset Analytics (incl. Historical Analytics), with extensive additional trusted data including Pricing, Reference Data, Models (incl. Starmine), Fundamentals, Estimates, Economics and Tick History to follow, expanding the breadth of AI-ready data available. Customers can rapidly build and deploy AI agents on their enterprise data and LSEG’s data for real-time investment analytics, risk management, and trading workflows using Databricks Agent Bricks.

Sage Capital Management Partners With EDXM International To Deliver Institutional Access To Differentiated Perpetual Futures Liquidity

Date 23/09/2025

Digital asset prime brokerage Sage Capital Management has formed a strategic partnership with EDXM International, a digital asset trading venue offering institutional access to perpetual futures. Backed by global financial leaders including Citadel Securities, Fidelity Digital Assets, Charles Schwab, Virtu Financial, and top global VCs Sequoia Capital and Pantera Capital, EDXM International is a purpose-built exchange offering capital and cost-efficient crypto trading and deep liquidity.

Boerse Stuttgart Digital Advances Its European Expansion Through Market Entry In Spain

Date 23/09/2025

• Boerse Stuttgart Digital continues its European growth strategy by entering the Spanish market with a new hub in Madrid, reinforcing its commitment to Southern Europe.
• Europe’s leading crypto infrastructure partner now also offers institutional-grade, fully regulated and MiCAR-compliant solutions for financial institutions in Spain.
• With Spain’s crypto adoption projected to reach +50% in 2025, Boerse Stuttgart Digital seizes the momentum as institutional clients increasingly pursue opportunities in crypto.

ARK Invest Surpasses $1 Billion In AUM Across Its European Funds - ARKK And ARKI Lead Inflows As European Demand For High Conviction Innovation Strategies Accelerates

Date 23/09/2025

ARK Invest Europe announced today it has surpassed $1 billion in assets under management (AUM) across its European fund ranges, having started 2025 at $446m. The milestone comes exactly two years after ARK Investment Management LLC acquired Rize ETF in September 2023 and subsequently launched 3 ARK ETFs in April 2024. Surpassing this milestone underscores the growing demand from European allocators for active, high-conviction exposure to disruptive innovation.

Clearstream Reinforces Commitment To Europe By Rebranding Its Germany-Based CSD To Clearstream Europe

Date 23/09/2025

• Clearstream Banking AG entity rebrands to Clearstream Europe AG
• Clearstream Europe provides access to all T2S markets via one platform, handling over 50% of the entire T2S volume
• CSD provides easy pan-European market access for its clients with One Account, One Platform and One Partner, strengthening harmonized European capital markets, the Savings and Investments Union and T+1