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Is AI Changing the Market Data Business and Opening the Door to New Competition?

Artificial intelligence is prompting financial institutions to reassess how they source, consume and manage market data, potentially creating new opportunities for providers seeking to challenge established vendor relationships. As AI-driven workflows become more prevalent, data quality, governance and delivery flexibility are emerging as increasingly important considerations alongside traditional requirements for coverage, performance and cost. These...

 

 

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Upcoming Webinar: Post-Trade Transformation: Automating Clearing & Settlement

Date: 1 December 2026 Time: 10:00am ET / 3:00pm London / 4:00pm CET Duration: 50 minutes The UK, EU and Swiss markets move to T+1 settlement on 11 October 2027, but the first binding compression arrives almost a year earlier. ESMA’s amended settlement discipline RTS expects allocation and confirmation completed by 23:00 CET on trade…

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RegTech Summit New York

Now in its 10th year, the RegTech Summit in New York will bring together the RegTech ecosystem to explore how the North American capital markets financial industry can leverage technology to drive innovation, cut costs and support regulatory change.

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Regulatory Data Handbook 2026 – Fourteenth Edition

Welcome to the fourteenth edition of A-Team Group’s Regulatory Data Handbook. Supervisors increasingly expect firms to demonstrate which rules apply, which data supports each obligation, who owns the control and how exceptions are identified and resolved. Policies and implementation programmes must now be supported by records that can withstand regulatory scrutiny. This edition examines material…

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Greenwashing Data Shows Shift Towards Transition Industries

Greenwashing is on the rise again and shifting notably towards companies that are critical to net-zero investors, exposing assets to severe risk of regulatory and reputational damage. The latest data shows that the total number of incidents in which companies overstated their sustainability achievements or failed to keep to their pledges surged 28% in the...

Is AI Changing the Market Data Business and Opening the Door to New Competition?

Artificial intelligence is prompting financial institutions to reassess how they source, consume and manage market data, potentially creating new opportunities for providers seeking to challenge established vendor relationships. As AI-driven workflows become more prevalent, data quality, governance and delivery flexibility are emerging as increasingly important considerations alongside traditional requirements for coverage, performance and cost. These...

The Always-On Exchange: Rebuilding Market Infrastructure for 24/5 and Beyond

US equity markets are moving towards a much longer trading day. Major exchanges are preparing for 23-hour trading, five days a week, while the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently devoted a roundtable to the operational, resilience, clearing and market-structure implications. Overnight trading remains relatively small – accounting for less than 1% of NMS stock...

A7 Exposé Highlights FinCrime Expertise Gaps in Product Due Diligence

Reporting by the Financial Times, Wall Street Journal and Reuters has exposed the scale of A7, the Russia-linked sanctions-evasion network that allegedly moved $6.9 billion through global banks using front companies and forged documents. FinCEN’s subsequent findings describe a wider operation whose overseas sub-agents processed more than $17 billion between January 2025 and June 2026,...

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Generative and Agentic AI in Financial Markets: From Pilot to Platform

Financial markets are at an inflection point in their relationship with artificial intelligence. The question is no longer whether to invest, it is how quickly institutions can move from experimentation to operational deployment, and what separates the firms that are scaling from those still stuck in extended pilot phases. The gap is wider than most...

The economics of modernising equities trading infrastructure

Equities markets are becoming more fragmented, interconnected and continuously available. Liquidity is spreading across venues and geographies, trading hours are extending, and firms are processing more market data and supporting increasingly complex execution workflows. These changes are placing new demands on trading infrastructure. Many traditional platforms continue to deliver excellent latency and throughput, but were...

The Integrated Data Overlay Approach to Solving Banks’ Data Challenges

Banks are under intense pressure from a variety of quickly evolving trends. Clients want more from them; market volatility is challenging their trading strategies; and regulator scrutiny is deepening. In response, regional banks and large banking organizations (LBOs) are offering more products to clients and promising ever-more automated access to a greater array of asset...

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Market & Alt Data Insight Awards – USA

Building on our expansion into the alternative data market, A-Team Group is proud to be launching a new awards program. These awards will recognize and celebrate the industry’s most innovative providers and services, spotlighting excellence in this rapidly evolving space.

Data Management Insight Awards USA

We are thrilled to unveil the winners of the Data Management Insight Awards USA 2026. These awards celebrate the leading vendor solutions and companies that deliver high-value, innovative data management capabilities to financial institutions in capital markets across North America.

AI in Capital Markets Awards

It is our privilege to celebrate the outstanding achievements of this year’s winners at the 2nd annual AI in Capital Markets Awards. These awards have been designed to recognise exceptional AI applications advancing innovation in capital markets.

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  • Regulatory Data Handbook 2026 – Fourteenth Edition

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  • Alternative Data in Capital Markets Handbook 2026

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