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AI in Finance Requires Developing the Right Operational Mindset
By Carl Thornberg, Head of Optimisation and Analytics Technology at OSTTRA. Integrating AI into the finance sector requires navigating a robust regulatory landscape designed to ensure stability and security, a process that demands a deliberate and meticulous approach to technology adoption. To build confidence for experimentation with this not-yet-fully-understood technology, essential safety nets must be…
Is Speed No Longer the Hard Part in Trading Infrastructure?
A panel of high-performance trading infrastructure architects, convened at A-Team Group’s recent TradingTech Summit New York to discuss the blueprint for speed, spent remarkably little of its time talking about speed. The tick-to-trade race still runs, and firms still shave nanoseconds where a strategy justifies it, but raw latency is the part this end of…
When Market Data’s Cloud Migration Is Over, What’s Left Behind?
The firms furthest along with cloud have stopped arguing about whether market data belongs there. What occupies them now are the questions that outlasted the migration: where the on-premises boundary finally holds, what turns out to cost money, and whether entitlement frameworks built for headcount can survive machines that consume data at machine speed. Getting…
A-Team Group Announces Capital Markets Technology APAC Awards 2026 Winners and Launches ‘State of the Market’ Report
A-Team Group today announced the highly anticipated winners of the Capital Markets Technology APAC Awards 2026. These prestigious awards celebrate the most innovative solution providers and financial institutions that are reshaping the capital markets technology landscape across the dynamic Asia Pacific region. In conjunction with the awards, A-Team Group has also launched the “State of…
Pico Wires LDA’s NeoTap X Into Corvil for AI-Ready Network Data
Pico and LDA Technologies have announced an integration that will see Pico’s Corvil Analytics platform support LDA’s NeoTap X aggregation technology in the forthcoming Corvil Analytics 10.2 release. The integration allows Corvil to ingest NeoTap X metadata – high-precision timestamps, per-port sequencing and data integrity signals – directly into its analytics pipeline, giving firms a…
NSCC Goes Live with 24×5 Clearing, Putting the Post-Trade Layer Ahead of the Exchanges
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has taken its National Securities Clearing Corporation (NSCC) subsidiary live with 24×5 clearing, extending the window from Sunday 8:00pm ET to Friday 8:00pm ET and applying NSCC’s central counterparty guarantee immediately to transactions executed across overnight sessions and multiple time zones. The change, which received SEC approval ahead…
Continuous Trading and the Death of End-of-Day
As US equities and other markets move toward continuous, around-the-clock trading, firms face a set of infrastructure questions the traditional trading day never forced them to answer. A panel at A-Team Group’s recent TradingTech Summit New York was convened to work through them: how to build a resilient foundation without adding operational risk; how to…
SOLVE Extends Relative Value Analysis to Peer-Group Cohorts
SOLVE has launched cohort-based Relative Value Analysis, an extension of its pre-trade platform that lets institutional fixed income traders and portfolio managers measure a bond against a dynamically defined peer group rather than picking off comparisons one bond at a time. The release, announced this month, adds two analytical frameworks – bond versus cohort, and…
Bloomberg Brings Electronic Trading to ABS, Fixed Income’s Last Holdout
Bloomberg’s launch of an electronic trading workflow for asset-backed securities, announced earlier this month, lands in an asset class that has resisted automation longer than most of fixed income. The list-based process, now being rolled out to clients across the US and EMEA, is built around the Bids Wanted in Competition and Offers Wanted in…
Modular vs Extensible Modular: Choosing Technology for Prediction Markets
By Daniel Davis, Chief Revenue Officer, Connamara Technologies. Ask most people how a new trading venue should approach its technology, and the answer comes back as a binary: build it yourself, or buy something off the shelf. Build, and you own everything, but you spend years getting to your first trade. Buy, and you launch…