Actian is planning to release a bi-directional data connector between its Vectorwise analytical database and Hadoop. It allows unstructured data from Hadoop to be pulled into Vectorwise for fast analysis, and then pushed back into Hadoop, or other systems. The data connector will be available by year end.
Artificial intelligence is reshaping financial markets – but the reality on the ground is more nuanced, more uneven, and more instructive than the headlines suggest. A new A-Team Insight research programme, drawing on responses from senior AI decision-makers at buy-side and sell-side institutions across the USA, UK and Canada, reveals a market in transition: from...
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...
Your Gateway to the Alternative Data Ecosystem. Now in its 8th year, the Eagle Alpha Alternative Data Conference, managed by A-Team Group, is the premier content and networking forum for investment firms and hedge funds using alternative data.
AI adoption in capital markets has moved into a more disciplined phase. The priority is now controlled deployment: where AI can be used safely, where it can deliver measurable value, and how outputs can be governed, monitored and evidenced. The 2026 edition of the AI in Capital Markets Handbook examines how AI is being applied...