Before we get going, just in case you didn’t see them during the last two weeks, here are our year-end round-ups of a few topics that you might find of interest: machine learning, natural language processing, app interoperability, Asia innovation, and lessons learned from the coronavirus.

We hope that these stories serve as useful one-stop-shops that provide a wide variety of actual, real-world initiatives and projects currently underway in the capital markets. Enough of that—let’s get to it.