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Duco Unveils Tool-Surface Architecture to Make Agents Auditable in Post-Trade
In agentic post-trade, explainability remains one of the hardest problems to solve. Agents can already read systems, draft exceptions, propose amendments and assemble workflows. What they have struggled to do – in a way that satisfies a Head of Operations facing a regulator – is leave behind an audit trail that survives scrutiny. Duco’s launch…
AI in Capital Markets Handbook 2026: From Experimentation to Governed Execution
Capital markets firms are under pressure to convert AI experimentation into sustainable business value. The challenge is not simply finding use cases but demonstrating that AI can support regulated workflows through approved data, accountable ownership, measurable outcomes and defensible evidence. A-Team Group’s AI in Capital Markets Handbook 2026 examines that shift across the trade lifecycle….
Is the Matching Engine Still the Heart of the Exchange?
A panel at the A-Team Group’s recent ExchangeTech Summit London, titled Setting the matching engine at the heart of the exchange tech ecosystem – Next gen architecture, microservices and cloud migration strategies, positioned the matching engine as the centre of gravity in modern venue architecture. The discussion that followed steadily pulled that centre of gravity…
Broadridge Moves Agentic AI from Roadmap to Institutional Scale Product
Broadridge’s recent announcement that its agentic AI is live in production across more than 40 clients signals a move from capability disclosure to commercial commitment. The firm is now offering two consumption models: a managed services arrangement where Broadridge runs operations end-to-end with the agentic layer on top, and a standalone deployment of the same…
Build, Buy, or Both? Why the Real Question for Quant Infrastructure Has Shifted to Where the Edge Sits
The questions have become perennial: build versus buy, cloud versus on-premise, in-house versus managed platform. But the discussion that emerged from a recent A-Team Group webinar on quantitative research infrastructure pointed to something more interesting than a binary choice. The build-versus-buy question, panellists agreed, has matured into a more sophisticated conversation about where firms locate…
European Market Structure’s Unfinished Business, Mapped
Two decades after MiFID I set out to introduce competition into European equity markets, the regulatory project has reshaped market structure without finishing the job it was meant to do. That, at least, was the thesis put to the opening panel at A-Team Group’s inaugural ExchangeTech Summit London earlier this month, entitled “Navigating the European…
Virtex Partners with Gold-i as TradFi and DeFi Brokerage Stacks Converge
Virtex Technologies, a year-old London-based vendor positioning itself as an “operating system for digital asset brokerages”, has selected Gold-i, an established FX and crypto connectivity firm, as its first integration partner. The pairing connects Virtex’s front-end and brokerage workflow platform to Gold-i’s MatrixNET liquidity management layer, giving clients single-point access to more than 35 crypto…
ION Integration with NatGasHub Edges Physical Gas Trading Closer to STP
ION Commodities has announced a deeper integration with NatGasHub.com, a NAESB-certified pipeline scheduling specialist, that brings nominations and scheduling activity directly into ION’s Openlink and Allegro commodity trading and risk management (CTRM) platforms. Traders working a position in ION can now submit pipeline nominations, receive confirmation updates and see scheduled quantities reflected automatically in their…
Where Tokenisation Actually Delivers Value: The Question the Institutional Market Still Can’t agree On
At a panel session on the convergence of traditional and digital market infrastructure at A-Team Group’s inaugural ExchangeTech Summit in London earlier this month, an audience poll set the framing for the discussion that followed. Asked where their firm sat today on tokenisation and DLT-based market infrastructure, the largest single response from a room of…
Where Generative AI Belongs in the Institutional Data Stack – and Where It Doesn’t
Two and a half years into the generative AI cycle, the working consensus among practitioners deploying AI against unstructured content in capital markets has quietly settled into a layered architecture. Generative models sit at the desktop, research and operational-efficiency layer. The feed, signal and modelling layer that drives systematic alpha still runs on the older,…