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TradingHub names former FactSet CEO Phil Snow chair. TradingHub has appointed Phil Snow chairman, adding the former FactSet chief executive to its board as it expands trade surveillance across equities and explores how AI agents could support compliance work. The appointment follows Nordic Capital's investment in the company and comes as banks face higher data volumes, more complex trading behavior and pressure to modernize monitoring systems. Snow brings A data-platform growth record. Snow served as FactSet's chief executive from 2015 to 2025. TradingHub says the company more than doubled revenue, entered the S&P 500 and expanded its global product and customer footprint during his tenure. That background is relevant because surveillance vendors must sell into institutions that already operate large, interconnected data and compliance systems. TradingHub's market is narrower than FactSet's, but the commercial challenge overlaps: financial institutions expect platforms to cover more data, integrate with existing systems and deliver measurable value across global operations. Snow's role is strategic oversight rather than day-to-day management. CEO Mike Coats continues to lead the company, while Snow's experience is intended to support the next stage of expansion. The board appointment follows Nordic Capital's investment, which FinanceFeeds reported as a majority investment supporting global growth. The investor said TradingHub has secured wins at global banks and momentum in equities and AI-powered surveillance. Financial terms of the investment were not disclosed, leaving the size of the capital commitment and valuation unknown. Snow replaces Neil Walker as chair. Walker co-founded TradingHub and led it as chief executive for 14 years before stepping down from the executive chair role earlier in the year. He remains on the board, preserving founder involvement while the company adds an outside executive with experience scaling a listed data provider. Equities could expand the customer relationship. TradingHub says banks that already use its fixed-income surveillance are looking to bring equities monitoring onto the same platform. That opportunity matters because banks often have separate technology stacks across asset classes, reflecting different market structures, data formats and supervisory obligations. Cross-asset monitoring can help identify behavior that is difficult to see inside a single product silo, but it requires reliable normalization and an understanding of how markets function. TradingHub has built its pitch around market-risk and market-impact models that seek to distinguish meaningful suspicious behavior from noise. A low false-positive rate can reduce the burden on compliance teams, but vendors rarely publish comparable industry-wide performance measures. Buyers must examine alert quality, detection coverage, explainability and the amount of analyst time required to close an investigation. The market is competitive. LSEG has launched its own surveillance platform using private trade data alongside public market information. Legacy providers and specialist vendors are competing to address fragmented liquidity, complex instruments and growing regulatory scrutiny. Institutions will compare not only detection capability but implementation costs, deployment options and whether a system can consolidate several existing tools. TradingHub has also added deeper order-book analysis. Its order book surveillance product gives users a time-specific view of order activity around alerts. That product direction reinforces the company's focus on investigative context rather than rule-based alerts alone. AI agents could change compliance workflows. Snow highlighted AI as a second growth opportunity, saying TradingHub is working with customers on the use of AI agents in surveillance. In a regulated setting, an agent could help triage alerts, retrieve relevant market context, summarize case material or suggest follow-up checks. Any such use has to preserve auditability and leave responsibility with the firm's compliance personnel. AI may lower the time required to review a case, but it can introduce new risks if a system makes unsupported inferences or misses a subtle market pattern. Financial institutions will need to know which records an agent accessed, how its output was generated, whether the model can be challenged and how human decisions are captured. A surveillance platform that adds AI without transparent controls may create more governance work than it removes. That problem is part of a wider technology shift. Financial data vendors are opening licensed material to AI agents, while banks are testing automation for research and operations. Surveillance providers may be able to offer an advantage because their platforms already connect transactions, market context and case records. The question is how much of the workflow can be automated without weakening evidentiary standards. FinanceFeeds has also reported on regulatory action tied to surveillance deficiencies and Nasdaq's use of AI in market surveillance. The example underscores that institutions are accountable for controls even when they buy technology from an outside vendor. AI can support compliance, but it cannot transfer the firm's regulatory responsibility to a software provider. Global expansion will test the platform. Surveillance programs also have to demonstrate that their models behave consistently when market structure changes. A system calibrated for one exchange or one asset class can produce excess alerts or miss patterns when order types, trading hours and liquidity profiles differ. Buyers therefore need local validation and clear model-change controls alongside a global product roadmap. TradingHub says it plans to expand in regions including Asia-Pacific. Global growth can increase revenue opportunities, but it requires local market knowledge, data partnerships and support for varying rules. Surveillance models may need to reflect different trading conventions, exchange structures and legal obligations, while customers expect a consistent experience across jurisdictions. Snow's FactSet background may help the company navigate global enterprise sales and product expansion. However, TradingHub will have to prove that new markets can be served without diluting product focus or creating long implementations. The company has not disclosed revenue, customer numbers or its regional expansion targets. Takeaway: Snow's appointment adds scale and data-platform experience to TradingHub's board as the company targets equities, AI-assisted surveillance and Asia-Pacific growth. The strategic opportunity is broader institutional adoption, but the test will be whether the platform improves detection and case efficiency while preserving the audit trail and accountability that compliance teams need.

FactSet announces expanded partnership with Scotia Wealth Management. NORWALK, Conn., Oct. 08, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) - FactSet (NYSE: FDS | NASDAQ: FDS), a leading global intelligence and AI solutions provider to the financial markets, today announced an expansion of its partnership with Scotia Wealth Management, part of the Scotiabank group of companies. The expansion will further integrate FactSet's capabilities into Scotia Wealth Management's advisor and investment platforms, supporting its commitment to enhancing the advisor experience and helping teams deliver greater value for clients. Advisors, investment professionals, and support team members across Scotia Wealth Management, will have access to FactSet's unified research and intelligence platform, bringing together investment research, market data, portfolio analysis, watchlists, and other resources in one place. "We're continually evolving our advisor platform to better support the needs of advisors and clients," said Todd Barnes, Executive Vice President, Canadian Wealth Management Investment Advisory, Scotia Wealth Management. "Our partnership with FactSet is an important part of that evolution, introducing powerful capabilities that position us to deliver even more value across our business over time." "Scotia Wealth Management sets a high bar for how technology can enable advisors, and we are proud to meet it," said Goran Skoko, Chief Revenue Officer at FactSet. "This expansion reflects the strength of a partnership built on trust, performance, and a shared belief that advisors deserve the very best tools available. We look forward to continuing to deliver on that promise together." This expanded initiative underscores FactSet's growing momentum as the platform of choice for wealth management firms seeking to equip their advisors with a decisive competitive edge, and reinforces Scotiabank's position as a firm that holds itself to the highest standard when it comes to the technology and tools it puts in the hands of its people. About FactSet FactSet (NYSE:FDS | NASDAQ:FDS) supercharges financial intelligence, offering enterprise data and information solutions that help our clients maximize their potential. Our cutting-edge digital platform seamlessly integrates proprietary financial data, client datasets, third-party sources, and flexible technology to deliver tailored solutions across the buy side, sell side, wealth management, private equity, and corporate sectors. With over 48 years of expertise, a presence in 20 countries, and extensive multi-asset class coverage, we leverage advanced data connectivity alongside AI and next-generation tools to streamline workflows, drive productivity, and enable smarter, faster decision-making. Serving more than 9,200 global clients and over 260,000 individual users, FactSet is a member of the S&P 500 dedicated to innovation and long-term client success. Learn more at www.factset.com and follow us on X and LinkedIn. About Scotiabank Scotiabank's vision is to be our clients' most trusted financial partner and deliver sustainable, profitable growth. Guided by our purpose: "for every future," we help our clients, their families and their communities achieve success through a broad range of advice, products, and services, including personal and commercial banking, wealth management and private banking, corporate and investment banking, and capital markets. With assets of approximately $1.5 trillion (as at July 31, 2026), Scotiabank is one of the largest banks in North America by assets, and trades on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX: BNS) and New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: BNS). For more information, please visit http://www.scotiabank.com and follow us on X @Scotiabank. FactSet Media Relations: Adam Dalezman +1.203.810.1035 [email protected]

SUBSCIRBE partners with FactSet to deliver end-to-end private markets solution for institutional investors and wealth managers. E-mail Address StreetInsider.com Top Tickers, 10/9/2026 October 6, 2026 8:16 AM EDT Integration streamlines investor onboarding to private funds, digitalizes fund subscriptions, and centralizes investment reporting for institutional investors wealth managers NEW YORK, October 6, 2026 /PRNewswire/ - SUBSCRIBE, the global fintech company providing the leading enterprise operating system for alternative investments, today announced a strategic partnership with FactSet (NYSE: FDS | NASDAQ: FDS), a leading global data and AI solutions provider to the financial markets. The partnership integrates SUBSCRIBE's private markets workflow and data solution into FactSet's leading platform for trusted data, research, & analytics, and advisor and client intelligence, delivering an end-to-end private markets experience for institutional investors and wealth managers. The integration provides FactSet's clients with seamless investor onboarding to private funds, digitalized fund subscriptions, and centralized post-trade investment reporting, enabling investors to manage, analyze, and monitor private and public investments side by side within a single platform. "Our goal has always been to rebuild the critical infrastructure and data layers required for managing private market fund investments," said Rafay Farooqui, Founder and CEO of SUBSCRIBE. "FactSet is one of the investment and wealth management industries' leading providers of portfolio performance, risk analytics, and reporting software. Together, we can deliver a truly superior end-to-end experience to institutional and wealth management investors at scale." "This partnership creates meaningful value for our clients, streamlining and synthesizing data for greater visibility into private market portfolios," said Greg King, Senior Director and Head of Wealth Management at FactSet. "As inflows to alternative investments continue to grow, our integrated offering with SUBSCRIBE is uniquely positioned to deliver value across the total portfolio, including both public and private investments." SUBSCRIBE currently serves both institutional investment and wealth management firms, supporting over $6 trillion in private market assets for leading institutional investors and alternative asset managers, and more than 55,000 financial advisors across 1200 wealth management firms. The partnership extends SUBSCRIBE's reach to FactSet's more than 8,600 global clients and 219,000 individual users, equipping them with alternative investment workflow tools embedded directly into their existing research, analytics, and investment processes. About SUBSCRIBE SUBSCRIBE is a fintech company digitally transforming the landscape of alternative investments for alternative asset managers, institutional investors, wealth managers, law firms, and fund administrators. Our platform technology modernizes the archaic infrastructure of private fund investments by delivering a central operating system - catering to every role within the investment process empowering them to connect any fund, any investor, anywhere in the world on a single platform. SUBSCRIBE supports over $6 trillion in private market assets and is the trusted technology partner to thousands of firms that rely on our end-to-end enterprise solution to scale their private market investment programs and manage investment processes across pre-trade, trade, and post-trade fund workflows. For additional information, visit www.subscribeplatform.com or follow the company on LinkedIn. SOURCE SUBSCRIBE Receive full access to all new and archived articles, unlimited portfolio tracking, e-mail alerts, custom newswires and RSS feeds - and more!