A-Team Insight Author: angela
Leading the Last Human-Only Trading Desk
By Roger Burkhardt, Head of AI and Chief Technology Officer at Broadridge. We are the final generation of trading leaders to manage organizations made up solely of humans. As agentic AI – autonomous systems that can decide, learn, and collaborate – moves from experimentation to enterprise scale, then leadership, governance, and workforce design must fundamentally...
Risks and Opportunities of GenAI, Data Products Under the Microscope: DMS London Preview
Artificial intelligence has made it possible to extract critical data from unstructured sources at speed and at scale. But the headlong rush to adopt the sorts of tools that can mine this rich vein of information is exposing organisations to new risks. Generative AI, whose models are commonly applied to trawling PDFs, emails, financial reports...
Pilot-to-Production Discussion to Open First AI in Data Management Summit NYC
The countdown has begun to the inaugural A-Team Group AI in Data Management Summit NYC. Leading figures from the worlds of data and finance will gather at the event to consider the most pressing matters facing them as their companies embed artificial intelligence into their operations. The Summit builds on the success of 15 years...
Why Data Governance Is Becoming Critical to the Modern Market Data Stack
The rapid expansion of alternative and specialised market datasets is transforming how financial institutions source, analyse and operationalise information. Alongside traditional market data feeds from exchanges and major vendors, firms now consume a growing array of niche datasets supporting quantitative research, AI workflows and investment decision-making. This surge in data consumption is creating new operational...
Modernising for Continuous Markets: Why Infrastructure Must Be Built for Constant Change
Trading infrastructure modernisation is no longer being driven solely by latency reduction or cost efficiency. The stronger message emerging across the industry is that firms are having to prepare for markets that are increasingly global, extended-hour, automated and operationally unforgiving. That was the central takeaway from a panel discussion at A-Team Group’s recent TradingTech Summit...
Regnology Extends Balance Sheet-Centric Reporting Model with Wolters Kluwer FRR Acquisition
On 1 December 2025, Regnology completed the acquisition of Wolters Kluwer’s Finance, Risk & Regulatory Reporting (FRR) unit; the deal was announced earlier in July. The company describes the combination as unifying its cloud-first regulatory reporting platform with FRR’s finance and risk capabilities, while extending its reach in key markets – APAC in particular. RegTech...
Hexaware QnA: Combining Human Skills and AI to Solve Data Challenges
London-based Hexaware is an artificial intelligence-led software designer that has been solving the data challenges for financial institutions and other regulated industries for more than 30 years. Data Management Insight spoke to director of operations Param Iyer about the pain points Hexaware seeks to solve. Date Management Insight: Hello Param. When was Hexaware created and how does it serve...
Record Debt Issuance Is Exposing The Bond Market’s Information Gap
By Swati Bhatia, head of fixed income, financial information at SIX. Sovereign bond issuance across the OECD’s member countries is predicted to have reach a record US$17 trillion at the end of last year, a scale of borrowing that would have seemed mind-boggling only a few years ago. On the corporate debt side, the total...
Alkymi’s AI-led Private Credit Seeks to Bring Transparency to Growing Market
Credit has become a key growth pole for private investors as loans and similar instruments have benefited from rising rates and wider public credit spreads. Interest in the sector is so strong that Morgan Stanley forecasts its value will rise to $5tn by 2029 from $3tn this year. The difficulty for institutional investors clamouring to...
Citi and HSBC Back Adaptive as Banks Rethink the Foundations of Trading Infrastructure
Citi and HSBC have made a strategic investment in trading technology firm Adaptive, signalling growing momentum behind efforts by major financial institutions to modernise the infrastructure underpinning their electronic trading platforms. The investment comes as banks increasingly confront the challenge of evolving front-office technology environments that have developed over decades of incremental change. In practice,...