A-Team Insight Author: angela
MEMX Maps Technology and Product Expansion Following TMX-BOX Deal
Two weeks after announcing its proposed US$2.3 billion combination with BOX, MEMX is beginning to map out how the enlarged group will integrate its technology, broaden its options offering and support expansion into new products and asset classes. Jonathan Kellner, chief executive of MEMX, tells TradingTech Insight that the combination will bring together three distinct...
Why Sanctions Compliance Is Becoming an Intelligence-Led Discipline
By Theodora Papadimitropoulou, head of GTM & Strategy, Third-Party Risk and Compliance. For years, sanctions compliance was closely associated with a single task, running a counterparty’s name against the relevant lists, checking for a match and acting if required. How much that tells you, though, depends heavily on the provider and the data behind the...
Oxane Partners QnA: Growing to Meet the Data Needs of Private Credit Practitioners
London-headquartered Oxane Partners was created by two former Deutsche Bank credit traders a little more than a decade ago to serve the data needs of the then-nascent private credit space. It has grown as the market has broadened. Data Management Insight spoke to managing director Kanav Kalia about the company’s beginnings, its present and its...
From AI Pilots to Always-On Compliance: The Priorities Shaping Regtech in 2026/27
Artificial intelligence is moving into live compliance workflows. That shift raises immediate questions about control: how much authority firms should give AI systems, where human review must remain, and how compliance teams can explain automated decisions to regulators and senior management. These issues will shape the agenda at RegTech Summit London on 1 October 2026....
How EventVestor Puts Alternative Data in Context
For investment firms looking to extract signals from alternative data, finding an interesting dataset is only part of the challenge. Moving that data from research into production brings a different set of requirements around quality, timeliness, consistency and historical accuracy. Those requirements are particularly important for quantitative investment firms, where apparently small discrepancies in timestamps,...
LDA Targets 25G Connectivity Gap with High-Density Layer 1 Fabric
As trading firms and exchanges move beyond 10GbE connectivity towards 25GbE and 100GbE, the surrounding infrastructure needs to evolve with them. While high-density Layer 1 connectivity has long been available at 10G, providing similar levels of flexibility and port density at 25G has proved more challenging. LDA Technologies is seeking to address that gap with...
FutureSports and CME Look to Turn Sports Performance into a Tradable Asset Class
Professional sports could be about to acquire a new dimension as a financial asset class, with CME Group preparing to launch the first exchange-traded futures contracts based on the performance of National Hockey League (NHL) teams. The derivatives exchange plans to launch standard and micro-sized Hockey futures on September 28, pending regulatory review. The contracts...
Nasdaq Continues to Build Out Always-On Market Infrastructure with LeveL Markets Acquisition
Nasdaq has agreed to acquire LeveL Markets, operator of one of the largest alternative trading systems (ATSs) for US equities, as part of a broader strategy to build infrastructure for increasingly continuous markets, spanning traditional exchanges, alternative liquidity venues and emerging digital and tokenised assets. The acquisition, announced this week, will bring LeveL’s institutional execution...
Kadoa and the New Economics of Web Data
For investment firms seeking an informational edge, the web represents an extraordinarily rich source of potential data. Product inventories and pricing, corporate activity, technology adoption, infrastructure development and countless other indicators can all provide insights that may not be available through conventional market and financial data sources. Extracting that information reliably, however, has traditionally required...
AI is Redrawing “Build vs. Buy” for Trading Desk Models
By Rohan Douglas, CEO of Quantifi Solutions. As technology, and AI in particular, continues to evolve and reshape the finance industry, trading desks are reconsidering how they source, maintain and extend their risk, pricing and analytics model libraries. Historically, this has often been framed as a build-versus-buy decision. Do you develop and maintain your own...