A-Team Insight Author: angela
Eurex Clearing Unveils Hybrid CCP Model to Integrate Traditional and Digital Securities
Eurex Clearing has announced plans to become what it describes as the world’s first hybrid central counterparty (CCP), integrating traditional and digitally native securities within a single clearing framework, rulebook and risk model. The initiative will allow market participants to trade, clear and finance digital instruments using their existing clearing relationships and infrastructure. Under the...
Bloomberg Adds AI Coding Assistant to BQuant to Accelerate Financial Data Analysis
Bloomberg has introduced BQuant Assistant, a conversational AI coding tool integrated into its BQuant analytics platform, enabling financial professionals to use natural-language instructions to develop investment strategies, query financial datasets and build analytical applications without requiring extensive programming expertise. Available through BQuant Desktop and BQuant Enterprise, the assistant operates within the platform’s existing Python development...
TRG Screen Launches Activity Monitor to Improve Visibility into Market Data Terminal Usage
TRG Screen, the market data and subscription cost management solutions provider, has launched Activity Monitor, a new capability designed to help financial institutions identify underutilised market data terminals, optimise licensing arrangements and reduce expenditure through more granular analysis of how employees use terminal services. Announced on 29 October, the solution captures function-level activity, allowing market...
Tradefeedr Brings AI-Powered Analytics to the Next Generation of TCA
Artificial intelligence is opening up new possibilities for transaction cost analysis (TCA), allowing traders and portfolio managers to interrogate execution data, explore trading performance and generate customised insights without relying on specialist quantitative or programming skills. But as AI becomes more deeply embedded in execution workflows, questions around analytical consistency, transparency and accountability are becoming...
Connecting Client Engagement to Commercial Outcomes: Singletrack’s AI-First Approach
Capital markets firms generate enormous volumes of information through their interactions with clients, yet much of that data remains fragmented across research, sales and trading, corporate access and investment banking. Bringing those activities together offers opportunities to improve client engagement, identify commercial opportunities and gain a clearer understanding of the value delivered by different parts...
RegSensus Combines FundApps and SteelEye Around Regulatory Consensus and Shared Data
FundApps and SteelEye have launched RegSensus, a new entity combining regulatory monitoring and reporting with trade and communications surveillance following completion of their merger in September. The business targets two sources of duplicated compliance work: firms rebuilding datasets for separate obligations and interpreting the same regulations independently. Announced on 27 October, the merger aims to...
Beeks and OmniPhi Target Institutional Agentic AI with Sovereign Infrastructure Partnership
Beeks Financial Cloud Group has partnered with Canadian fintech OmniPhi to develop a sovereign agentic AI platform for capital markets, combining privately hosted large language models with tools for automating trading-related workflows. The agreement includes a strategic investment by Beeks in OmniPhi and will see the companies target banks, brokers, asset managers and professional traders....
Janus Henderson and Centrifuge Launch Nasdaq-100 Tokenised Fund on Stellar Network
London-based asset manager Janus Henderson and tokenisation platform Centrifuge have announced the launch of JQQQ, a blockchain-native fund that provides exposure to the Nasdaq-100 Index through an issuer-sponsored strategy. The fund is designed for issuance and operation on public blockchain infrastructure, combining traditional investment management standards with digital financial applications. The fund is launching on...
Chainlink’s CustodySync Boosts TradFi Custody with DeFi Lending
Chainlink Labs has launched Chainlink CustodySync to synchronise regulated digital asset custodians with decentralised finance (DeFi) lending markets. The platform aims to bridge the gap between approximately $700 billion in digital assets held under custody and the more than $80 billion available in DeFi deposits, allowing institutions to access on-chain liquidity without moving assets out...
Layer-1 Blockchain Projects Respond to SEC’s Proposed “Crypto Assets” Regulation
A group of major Layer-1 blockchain projects has formally urged the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to explicitly codify a “digital commodity” classification within its proposed regulatory framework. In a joint comment letter addressed to SEC Secretary Vanessa A. Countryman, six prominent industry participants requested key modifications to the agency’s proposed “Regulation Crypto Assets”...