A-Team Insight Author: angela
Dynamo Restarts the Roll-Up: InvestHub Deal Signals Next Phase of Private Markets Ops Consolidation
Dynamo Software’s acquisition of Paris-based InvestHub, announced on 12 May, is the company’s first piece of M&A activity in more than three years, and the choice of target says as much about where private markets operations technology is heading as the deal itself. Between 2019 and 2022, Dynamo bought at pace under Francisco Partners’ ownership:...
From Quiet Practice to Explicit Disclosure: How the Fed’s Alt-Data Use is Reshaping the Macro Stack
At the October 2025 FOMC press conference, during the federal government shutdown that had interrupted the flow of official statistics, Chair Jerome Powell did something the Federal Reserve has rarely done in public: he cited the alternative datasets from PriceStats, Adobe and ADP that the central bank was leaning on. For many observers of the...
Gresham-FundGuard Collaboration Widens Outsourced Total Portfolio Offering
Enterprise data management specialist Gresham’s latest addition to its portfolio of offerings has seen it forge a collaboration with accounting technology provider FundGuard. The partnership, which will integrate FundGuard’s multi-book investment accounting capabilities into Gresham’s EDM platform, takes the ambitious London- and New York-based company deeper into the tech stacks of financial institutions as their...
ARMs Get Their Own Trade Body as Transaction Data Takes Over MiFIR Transparency
A structural shift in how ESMA calibrates the MiFIR transparency regime has handed Approved Reporting Mechanisms (ARMs) a more central role in market data infrastructure than they have held since MiFID II went live in 2018. Under the simplification programme tied to the MiFIR Review, ESMA has discontinued the dedicated reporting flows on which transparency...
The ‘More Data Is Better’ Myth
By Edgar Randall, Head of Europe, Dun & Bradstreet. For years, business leaders have been told that data is their greatest asset. Collect more of it, connect more sources, and better decisions will follow. However, as organisations accelerate their investment in AI, analytics and digital transformation, this long-held assumption is starting to be challenged. The...
Ataccama Gathers Data Capabilities into Focused EU AI Act Package
As the implementation date for the European Union’s AI Act looms, financial institutions are having to put their data estates on a secure footing to ensure they comply with the wide-ranging regulation. The Act requires organisations to have a broad and granular view of their data in order to show that they can trace any...
Don’t Misread a Shift in Regulatory Tone – Global Relay
US regulators may be stepping back from the penalty-led off-channel communications sweeps that defined recent enforcement cycles, but that does not mean firms can ease up on surveillance or record-keeping controls. The shift under new leadership at the SEC and CFTC should be reviewed as a change in enforcement emphasis: fewer technical cases pursued in...
The Buy-and-Build Line Keeps Moving – And That’s the Point
The old buy-versus-build debate in trading technology has been declared dead so many times it risks becoming a cliché. But at a recent A-Team Group webinar entitled How to move to a modern, component based trading architecture using a Buy AND Build approach, sponsored by interop.io, a sharper question surfaced beneath the familiar framing: if...
Bloomberg’s Macro Point-in-Time Launch Highlights Importance of Consensus Evolution
Vendor announcements about point-in-time macro data tend to compete on the same three axes: how many indicators, how many countries, how far back. Bloomberg’s launch this week of its Economic Releases and Surveys Point-in-Time dataset hits all three credibly – more than 3,000 indicators, over 100 economies, history to 1997 – and ties the dataset...
Delta Capita Report Hub Extends Controls into Post-Reporting Assurance
Regulatory reporting teams have spent much of the past two years focused on rewrites, implementation deadlines and submission mechanics. The priority is now shifting to Post-Reporting Assurance: once a report has been filed, can the firm evidence that the data was accurate, complete, reconciled and subject to proper oversight? That shift is shaping the next...