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US Financial Giants Provide £1.25 Billion of Inward Investments into UK, Creating 1,800 Jobs

15 September 2025 Jason Bell Comments Off

Major US financial firms including PayPal, Bank of America, Citi Bank, and S&P Global have committed over £1.25 billion in new investments across the UK, creating 1,800 jobs in cities into London, Belfast, Edinburgh and […]

MIT Blows the House of AI Cards – 95% of GenAI Projects Deliver Zero Returns

21 August 2025 Jason Bell Comments Off

The artificial intelligence gold rush that has propelled US tech stocks to record highs is starting to show cracks. A MIT study revealed that 95% of organizations are extracting zero return on their generative AI […]

Goldman Sachs Deploys AI Software Engineer in Groundbreaking Pilot Program

13 July 2025 Jason Bell Comments Off

Goldman Sachs has become the first major bank to integrate an autonomous AI software engineer into its development operations, launching a pilot program with Devin, an advanced AI agent developed by startup Cognition Labs. The […]

TA Associates Acquires FD Technologies in £570M Deal, Betting on KX’s Real-Time Analytics Platform

7 July 2025 Jason Bell Comments Off

TA Associates has agreed to acquire FD Technologies PLC (AIM: FDP.L) in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately £570 million, marking a significant consolidation play in the enterprise data analytics sector. The acquisition, structured through […]

A Small Section of the Finance Community Celebrates Pizza Day

22 May 2025 Jason Bell Comments Off

May 22nd is recognised as Pizza Day, marking the day fifteen years ago when the first recorded commercial transaction of Bitcoin was made. Laszlo Hanyecz purchased two Papa John pizzas for 10,000BTC, at the time […]

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CME Group Announces Plans To Launch XRP Futures

6 May 2025 Jason Bell Comments Off

CME Group has announced plans to launch XRP futures on May 19th, 2025, pending regulatory review. The new contracts will provide market participants with regulated tools to manage price risk in the digital asset space. […]

CME Group Announce Solana Futures Product

13 March 2025 Jason Bell Comments Off

CME Group, the world’s leading derivatives marketplace, announced plans to launch Solana (SOL) futures on March 17th, 2025, pending regulatory review. The new contracts will provide market participants with regulated tools to manage price risk […]

Nasdaq Floats Possibility of 24-Hour Trading to Start in H2 2026

11 March 2025 Jason Bell Comments Off

Tal Cohen, president of Nasdaq Exchange announced Friday 7th March on Linkedin that the exchange intends to offer twenty-four-hour trading with a view to starting in the second half of 2026. Still pending regulatory approval, […]

President Trump Signs Executive Order on Crypto Currency Reserve

7 March 2025 Jason Bell Comments Off

Cryptocurrencies communities finally have the presidential promises they had hoped for. On Thursday March 6 th US President, Donald Trump, signed an executive order to establish a strategic Bitcoin reserve and asset stockpile of other […]

Tick Data Quackery

6 January 2025 Jason Bell Comments Off

Back in September 2024 the CQF Institute ran the Machine Learning Quant Finance Conference 2024, with Edith Mandel’s talk “Doing More with Tick Data: A Machine Learning Approach to Intraday Signal Development” being one of […]