A-Team Insight Author: angela
Chainlink Launches CCIP 2.0 to Support Blockchain Interoperability, Underpins Swift Ledger Transactions
Chainlink has officially launched CCIP 2.0, marking the next generation of its Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol. The upgraded protocol functions as a neutral interoperability layer designed to allow financial institutions distribute tokenised digital assets across public and private blockchains without needing to rearchitect their existing technology stacks. The launch comes as financial markets players are increasingly...
Adapting to an AI-Dominated World: Data Management Summit New York City Review
The 16th Data Management Summit New York City immersed delegates in a deep dive into the implications of artificial intelligence and associated agents as the technologies dominate discussions among data chiefs of the world’s financial institutions. In the opening Data Leaders Panel, The Evolving Data And Ai Operating Model – Synergy, Governance And Accountability, the...
Fiserv Launches Digital Asset Platform and Support for Roughrider Coin
Global payments provider Fiserv has officially launched its Digital Asset Platform (DAP) with financial institution clients, marking the initial commercialisation of stablecoin-enabled banking and payments for the vendor. The platform’s first live deployment supports Roughrider Coin, a US dollar-backed stablecoin developed for the Bank of North Dakota. This digital currency is specifically designed to optimise and accelerate...
Open USD is Live: Consortia-managed Stablecoin Looks to Remake Internet Finance
The Open USD (OUSD) stablecoin is officially live as of September 30, marking a shift in the digital asset landscape by introducing an open-architecture stablecoin designed to compete directly with traditional, single-issuer models, such as Tether and Circle. Announced earlier this year, OUSD is issued by Stripe’s Bridge unit and is operated by the independent Open Standard...
Where Should Trading Firms Spend Their Latency Budget?
The pursuit of lower latency in electronic trading hasn’t disappeared, but the engineering decisions behind it are becoming more selective. Rather than trying to make every component of the trading stack as fast as possible, firms need to determine where microseconds genuinely affect trading outcomes, where predictable performance matters more than absolute speed, and where...
Nasdaq Calypso Builds Agentic Layer for the Shift to Always-On Markets
Nasdaq is extending its Calypso capital markets solution beyond its traditional role as a system of record, adding an agentic AI layer designed to support increasingly automated workflows across trading, risk, clearing and collateral management while retaining the deterministic processing at the core of the platform. The move follows the launch of an agentic AI...
Solidatus Updates AI to Give Agentic Boost to Workflow Speed and Scale
Data lineage and governance specialist Solidatus has expanded its AI capabilities in a new release that introduces enhanced AI Assistant functionality, bring-your-own-LLM support and new integrations designed to help organisations accelerate governance and data lineage workflows. In the summer, the company upgraded its service offerings with update 2026.3 the contains a set of capabilities that...
Google Just Put a Price on Old Enterprise Data
By Jerry Caviston, CEO, Archive360. In August, Google was selected as the successful bidder in a $10 million auction for enterprise data from Spirit Airlines. The proposed sale still requires court approval, but the bid has already delivered a useful signal. Historical data can retain value long after the process that created it has ended....
FCA Opens Consultation on New Transaction Reporting Regime
The Financial Conduct Authority’s latest transaction reporting consultation sets out how firms would apply rules that change reporting responsibilities, client data exchanges and the treatment of historical records. Preparing for the April 2028 deadline will require decisions about who supplies reporting data and how systems preserve it through the transition. Published in August 2026, Policy...
What You Missed at This Year’s RegTech Summit London
Evidence and accountability ran through this year’s RegTech Summit London. As artificial intelligence takes on more compliance work, firms need to explain decisions, trace reported data to its source and assign responsibility for errors. Across this year’s sessions, speakers returned to fragmented systems, continuous controls and the expertise needed to challenge automated results. The opening...