A-Team Insight Author: angela
Private Market Pricing Data Moves Beyond Transparency to Public Equity Signal
The secondary market for private company shares has grown rapidly, but pricing infrastructure has lagged behind. For most market participants, the price of a name like OpenAI or SpaceX is still whatever number comes through on a broker’s phone call, a single data point with no composite context, no observable bid-offer spread, and no audit...
New Breakout Roundtable Session Stimulates Deep Topic Discussion at DMS London
A new feature of this year’s A-Team Group Data Management Summit London was the Champagne Roundtable sessions, in which delegates were able to gather in small, informal groups for guided discussion on a range of data and technology issues facing financial institutions. The fully attended session was well-received by participants, each of whom were invited...
Datactics Survey to Gauge Data Chiefs’ Pressure to Adopt AI Amid New Risks
The headlong rush to adopt artificial intelligence poses multiple risks to financial institutions that don’t take the necessary preparatory steps before implementation. One potential source is the increasing AI-savviness of company employees. As they become accustomed to using the technology on consumer devices and websites, there is a greater risk they’ll inadvertently leak or compromise...
Determinism is the New Speed: Why High Performance Trading Infrastructure is Being Redefined Around Provability
The definition of high performance in trading infrastructure is shifting. Raw speed, once the key benchmark, is increasingly being subsumed into a broader set of requirements around determinism, provability and architectural simplicity. For firms operating in fragmented, event-driven and increasingly automated markets, the competitive edge is no longer measured in nanoseconds alone, it lies in...
15 Regulatory Transaction Reporting Leaders, Europe – (2026 Edition)
Transaction reporting in Europe is no longer a question of meeting submission deadlines – it is a question of evidencing control. Core regimes such as MiFIR and EMIR have been in force for several years, but supervisory focus has shifted decisively from completeness toward data quality, reconciliation, and traceability. The EMIR Refit go-live in April...
BMLL and Tradefeedr Partner to Build AI-Ready Analytics Layer for Equities and Futures
BMLL Technologies, the independent provider of harmonised historical order book data, and Tradefeedr, the network-based trading analytics platform, have announced a partnership to extend Tradefeedr’s analytics capabilities into equities and futures. The initiative, which includes a year-long industry pilot, represents Tradefeedr’s first move beyond its established FX analytics franchise and signals a broader ambition to...
STS Digital Launches Structured Products Platform, Deepening Kraken Partnership
STS Digital, the regulated digital-asset derivatives firm, has launched what it describes as a first-to-market structured products platform for institutional investors, extending the principal dealer model it has built across crypto options into a broader range of yield enhancement, capital protection and bespoke structuring capabilities. The platform, which targets banks, institutional investors, family offices, external...
PS26/2: The FCA Wants Data, Not Declarations on Resilience
The Financial Conduct Authority has moved the UK operational resilience regime into its next phase with PS26/2 on operational incident and third party reporting. Firms have spent the past few years identifying important business services and setting impact tolerances. Supervisors now want structured data that shows how those services hold up under stress. PS26/2 introduces...
Stage is Set for 16th Annual Data Management Summit London
The 16th annual A-Team Group Data Management Summit London gets underway tomorrow morning, with another high-level gathering of industry experts to look over the state of play in data management within capital markets. A full-day of panel discussions, debate and networking will take place as well as a slew of keynote addresses from some of...
Inaugural AI in Data Management Summit NYC Sets New Benchmark in AI Discussion
A-Team Group’s inaugural AI in Data Management Summit NYC set a new benchmark in the global discussion around artificial intelligence. Leading figures from the worlds of finance and technology gathered in New York to share best practice guidance and observation, real-world case studies and forecasts for the exciting – and challenging – year ahead. The...