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Malaysian Reserve
25-07-2025
- Business
- Malaysian Reserve
viaNexus Unveils MCP Service to Enable Agent-Driven Access to Financial Data
NEW YORK, July 24, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — viaNexus, the high-performance financial data platform built for intelligent systems, today announced the release of its MCP Service, a first-of-its-kind MCP implementation enabling a proper client/server architecture for autonomous agents to securely discover, request, and consume financial data — without manual Authentication/Authorization and paywall integration removinghuman intervention. The viaNexus MCP Service leverages the emerging Model Context Protocol (MCP) to deliver real-time, entitlement-aware access to market data, filings, fundamentals, news and more. Each agent is assigned a scoped identity and permission set, allowing precise control over what data can be accessed, by whom, and under what terms. 'Agents are the new users, and data is their fuel,' said Tim Baker, CEO of viaNexus. 'With the MCP Service, agents can connect directly to our data platform — with secure authentication, entitlements, and governance built in from the start.' Unlike current MCP server implementations, which are currently being advertised as API interfaces, often lack native support for secure authentication protocols, and agent-specific access controls, the viaNexus solution introduces several key innovations: Agent-Scoped Identity and Access Control — Unique, auditable access tied to organizational policies and account-level entitlements Asynchronous Authorization Workflow — Secure approval flows and timed bearer tokens remove reliance on human-mediated OAuth flows, which are incompatible with autonomous workflows Built-In Paywall Integration — Data providers can configure usage-based access and pricing, confident that monetization and compliance are enforced programmatically Native Integration with viaNexus Data — Agents can retrieve structured data on demand, fueling analysis, reasoning, or downstream processes 'This is just the beginning,' said Pedro Aguayo, CTO of viaNexus. 'We're already working on open sourcing the entire client stack — including connectors, configuration tools, and telemetry. Our goal is to make secure, agentic data workflows easy to build, deploy, and scale.' Read the blog post here: View the demo here: Stay up to date with future releases by signing up to our Newsletter here: viaNexus is also inviting select beta customers to test the viaNexus MCP service. Interested parties can reach the team at MCP-beta@ About viaNexusviaNexus is a next-generation financial data platform purpose-built for both data publishers and data consumers. From real-time prices to structured financial content, viaNexus delivers high-performance, entitlement-aware data access through APIs and next-gen protocols like MCP. The platform supports fintechs, institutions, and data providers looking to scale in an intelligent, compliant, and cost-effective way. Learn more at Media Contact: Tim Baker,
Yahoo
24-07-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
viaNexus Unveils MCP Service to Enable Agent-Driven Access to Financial Data
NEW YORK, July 24, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- viaNexus, the high-performance financial data platform built for intelligent systems, today announced the release of its MCP Service, a first-of-its-kind MCP implementation enabling a proper client/server architecture for autonomous agents to securely discover, request, and consume financial data — without manual Authentication/Authorization and paywall integration removinghuman intervention. The viaNexus MCP Service leverages the emerging Model Context Protocol (MCP) to deliver real-time, entitlement-aware access to market data, filings, fundamentals, news and more. Each agent is assigned a scoped identity and permission set, allowing precise control over what data can be accessed, by whom, and under what terms. "Agents are the new users, and data is their fuel," said Tim Baker, CEO of viaNexus. "With the MCP Service, agents can connect directly to our data platform — with secure authentication, entitlements, and governance built in from the start." Unlike current MCP server implementations, which are currently being advertised as API interfaces, often lack native support for secure authentication protocols, and agent-specific access controls, the viaNexus solution introduces several key innovations: Agent-Scoped Identity and Access Control — Unique, auditable access tied to organizational policies and account-level entitlements Asynchronous Authorization Workflow — Secure approval flows and timed bearer tokens remove reliance on human-mediated OAuth flows, which are incompatible with autonomous workflows Built-In Paywall Integration — Data providers can configure usage-based access and pricing, confident that monetization and compliance are enforced programmatically Native Integration with viaNexus Data — Agents can retrieve structured data on demand, fueling analysis, reasoning, or downstream processes "This is just the beginning," said Pedro Aguayo, CTO of viaNexus. "We're already working on open sourcing the entire client stack — including connectors, configuration tools, and telemetry. Our goal is to make secure, agentic data workflows easy to build, deploy, and scale." Read the blog post here: View the demo here: Stay up to date with future releases by signing up to our Newsletter here: viaNexus is also inviting select beta customers to test the viaNexus MCP service. Interested parties can reach the team at MCP-beta@ About viaNexusviaNexus is a next-generation financial data platform purpose-built for both data publishers and data consumers. From real-time prices to structured financial content, viaNexus delivers high-performance, entitlement-aware data access through APIs and next-gen protocols like MCP. The platform supports fintechs, institutions, and data providers looking to scale in an intelligent, compliant, and cost-effective way. Learn more at Media Contact: Tim Baker, View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE viaNexus Fehler beim Abrufen der Daten Melden Sie sich an, um Ihr Portfolio aufzurufen. Fehler beim Abrufen der Daten Fehler beim Abrufen der Daten Fehler beim Abrufen der Daten Fehler beim Abrufen der Daten
Yahoo
16-07-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
US dollar falls on Trump–Powell chaos: FX euro shift 'has legs'
The US dollar (DX=F) is under pressure as investors weigh whether President Trump is still considering firing Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell. Deutsche Bank Americas head of FX research, Tim Baker, joins Market Domination Overtime with Josh Lipton to take a closer look at the foreign exchange market as policy uncertainty fuels a shift to the euro (6E=F). To watch more expert insights and analysis on the latest market action, check out more Market Domination Overtime here. Well, the US dollar index taken a tumble in the first six months of the year, posting its worst first half performance in more than 50 years. But the dollar is not the only thing struggling, as traders navigate a tricky adjustment period in the currency markets here to discuss all this and more, got Tim Baker, Deutsche Bank head of FX research America. Tim, it is great to see you to have you on set. Uh let me start with with the story that was kind of dominating today, Tim. And that was reports Trump was likely to fire Powell and and then Trump says no, I'm I'm not planning to do that. But I'm just curious how did how did those headlines, those reports to him, how did that play out for the dollar? What did you make of the moves in response? Well, I think the moves made quite a bit of sense actually. The dollar uh fell heavily uh when Trump came out and denied it, the dollar came back a little bit, but still isn't back to where we were to start the day, particularly against alternative safe havens like euro and yen. So I think this is a kind of a continuation of what we've seen in the last few months where there's elevated US political uncertainty or this tariff uncertainty. Uh the rest of the world has been very long US assets, and they've done very well out of it for 5 to 10 years now, but they're starting to rethink you know, do we really want this heavy heavy exposure to the US in the presence of this uncertainty? Can we edge away and find something different? So I think we're increasingly getting particularly the long-term investors rethinking US exposures. So it makes sense the dollar's falling around times like this. We yeah, I mean obviously, so weakness in the first half, we had folks on the show kind of suggesting but maybe we were bottoming here. Is that what you see? What what's ahead? Look I I I've got sympathy with that view if it was all just tactical and there wasn't a big regime shift underway. You know, if it was last year, the year before, hey, the dollar's down a lot, and the US economy is not bad, and it's not like the Fed needs to cut anytime soon. But that would make sense, but I think we're in this regime shift because of it, well, not just because of this US political uncertainty, which is huge, but also what you're seeing elsewhere. I mean Europe I mean, FX is a relative game at the end of the day, right? We can be bearish the dollar, we need to be bullish something else. But this euro story really has legs, we think. February, the the German fiscal shock surprised everyone. And if there's one push back there, push back back then, it was well, the German fiscal stimulus, that's kind of 2026 onwards. Just a couple of weeks ago, we find they're bringing it forward to the second half of this year. So there's the euro kind of beleaguered um put put to one side, really putting its hand up as an alternative safe haven. Now, nothing's going to challenge dollar primacy, but when the dollar's performed so strongly for so many years it stayed, it's been holding at these high evaluations, and euro starts looking a bit more interesting, then it's easy to kind of sustainably kind of knock down the dollar a little bit. So when you're making this call on the dollar Tim, it's not as simple as just following interest rate differentials? No, uh those were the easier times. Um and that all that that all works well in a kind of normal environment and valuations and positioning are extended. I mean, we already saw the dollar kind of overshoot get expensive rates kind of late last year into January, and that was kind of like a positive risk premium. You know, the dollar should trade expensive versus rates because who knows what Trump's going to do, he's going to put tariffs on this country and that country. Now it's turned out that that actually hurts appetite for US assets, and now we're trading cheap versus the dollar. So that kind of makes sense. I mean rates still matter, but can you trade above what rates would suggest, well we did last year, and can you trade below like we are now if there are other factors, yeah absolutely. So it's a guide, we keep an eye on it. Uh to the extent the Fed expectations change, the dollar changes on the day. But we think just this year, this big structural flow where global investors want to hedge more of their dollar assets, they want to reallocate somewhere else, that provides a kind of structural uh sell uh I guess of the dollar. There was an interesting piece in Bloomberg today. I don't know if you saw it. They were kind of talking to different currency strategists, and the thesis of the piece was all about how maybe some of the tried and true signals those strategists would have traditionally relied on, depended on, aren't working like they used to and maybe misfiring, and I was just wondering is that does that dovetail with your experience? Yeah, for sure. Uh and that that's what you get in big turning points. I mean if you look at the dollar over the long run, tends to move up for 7 or 8 years down for at least that long. We're at that turning point now, I think so different factors are going to work. Now, actually the last month or so, rates have been working reasonably well across G10 FX. The biggest change in front end rates typically has led to the better performance of that currency, just in the last month or so. But before that it was things like valuation. The cheap currencies like yen were doing better. It was uh the net foreign asset position. Again, things like euro and yen were doing better. So I'd say it's really shifting regimes over the course of this year. I think we're going to return back to, in Q1 into April price action where valuations do matter, your net foreign asset position matter matters, because investors really want to change their allocations. You know, these big huge investment flows that have been so one way for the dollar for so long uh are starting to turn. We We started on Trump, we'll end here on Trump. What is your sense of this President Trump, in your opinion, does he does he really want a strong dollar? Because he he can send sort of mixed signals there. What's your sense? Yeah, look you're right, they're mixed. Um I guess President Trump uh has a lot of things he wants, and I just take him seriously on the stuff he talks about the most, you know, tariffs, and you know, bringing investment into America. That seems to be what he most frequently talks about, and I I think he'll stay true to his word. Anything he's got to say on the dollar, we hear about it far less frequently for a year now, and then we hear mixed views on it. So I think it's way down the the pecking order. It'll do what the market wants it to do. I think it's all about tariffs, I think you see evidence there, um and I think it's about you know, bringing investment back back to America. Now that does have, that's not entirely negative for the dollar if he can succeed in getting foreign uh companies to invest in America even as foreign institutional investors want to pull back, maybe there's a bit of an offset there. Um But but generally, I think it's the the portfolio flows that are going to be worse going out than those corporate flows coming in. Tim, great to see you, great to have you on set. Thanks for joining us. Appreciate it. Thanks. Related Videos Powell & Trump, top performers, market flows: Market takeaways Netflix: Earnings preview & possible UFC deal Bank earnings review: Financial sector looks 'pretty good' United Airlines posts earnings beat, but cuts profit outlook Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
BBC News
14-07-2025
- Politics
- BBC News
Tynwald pauses to remember former minister Tim Baker
Members of the Manx parliament have paid tribute to former MHK and "deeply compassionate politician" Tim Baker, who represented Ayre and Michael in the House of Keys for five years including a year as infrastructure minister, died at the age of 59 on 3 July. Tynwald members took part in a minute's silence ahead of the July sitting to pay their of Tynwald Laurence Skelly said the former MHK, who served between 2016 and 2021, took "a keen interest in social policy matters". Skelly said members of the parliament were "all shocked and saddened" to hear about the death of their former colleague and "good friend"."Our thoughts are with his wife Viv, his daughters Voirrey and Kerenza, and his mother Nola and the whole family," he funeral service is due to take place at St Paul's Church, Ramsey, on 21 July at 12:00 BST. Read more stories from the Isle of Man on the BBC, watch BBC North West Tonight on BBC iPlayer and follow BBC Isle of Man on Facebook and X.
ABC News
14-07-2025
- Health
- ABC News
Liz Heggaton & Tim Baker
Liz Heggaton & Tim Baker are an unlikely duo – a sheep farmer and a surf writer who have joined forces to draw attention to the potentially deadly psychological side effects of the most commonly prescribed treatment for prostate cancer.
