A-Team Insight Author: angela
Collateral Management Winner for Tokenisation Use Cases in UK Survey
Collateral management was the winning use case cited by respondents to the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and Bank of England call for input survey, titled “The future of tokenisation: A joint vision from the authorities for UK wholesale financial markets.” With the survey garnering 123 responses, the results report notes that “Collateral was by...
S&P Global Acquires Smart Contract Security Leader OpenZeppelin
S&P Global has announced the acquisition of OpenZeppelin, a prominent smart contract and blockchain security specialist. The financial details of the transaction were not disclosed. According to the companies, the acquisition is intended to integrate OpenZeppelin’s security and development services into S&P Global’s digital asset capabilities, focusing on the creation of future on-chain security assessments and...
SEC Introduces “Innovation Exception” to Allow Regulated Trading of Tokenised Securities
In a landmark move that significantly advances the implementation of a regulated tokenised securities marketplace in the US, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has granted a temporary and conditional “exemption” to allow new Tokenised Securities Venues (TSVs) to operate and trade tokenised National Market System (NMS) stocks without registering as a traditional exchange. The...
Dakota Q&A: From Fund Raiser to Private Market Data Specialist
Two decades since its formation, Dakota has transformed its business from raising capital to providing private market participants with data and tech services. It’s history is one of nimble adaptation and being able to divine the growing needs of a booming yet often opaque corner of the financial sector. Company President Rob Robertson spoke to...
The New Economics of Equities Trading Infrastructure
How modular architecture, 24/5 trading, and the rising cost of change are reshaping equities infrastructure By Ian Salmon, Head of Accelerator Program, Adaptive. Equities trading infrastructure has traditionally been judged against a familiar set of measures: latency, throughput, reliability and the ability to remain stable during periods of intense market activity. Those requirements remain fundamental....
MSCI’s First Street Acquisition to Fill Climate Risk Gap for Investors
Data, ratings and analytics giant MSCI is betting its latest acquisition will enable investors to close the gap between perceived climate risks to their physical assets and disclosures about the impacts that severe weather is actually having on them. First Street’s global data feeds use environmental, geospatial and satellite technology to detail the vulnerabilities of...
Exegy and MarketsIO Target the Market Data Migration Deadlock
For years, financial institutions have faced an uncomfortable trade-off around enterprise market data infrastructure. Legacy platforms may be expensive, complex and increasingly ill-suited to modern trading environments, but replacing technology embedded across hundreds or thousands of applications can introduce even greater cost and operational risk. A recently announced partnership between Exegy and MarketsIO is taking...
The Low-Latency Race Shifts from Speed to Scale and Control
For years, the evolution of low-latency trading infrastructure has largely been measured in one direction: faster. Microseconds became nanoseconds as trading firms invested in colocation, network optimisation, specialist hardware and FPGA acceleration to gain an edge in markets where position in the queue can determine whether an order is filled. That race hasn’t gone away....
Bloomberg Vault Adds AI Surveillance Models for Insider Dealing and Personal Trading
Bloomberg has expanded its Vault communications surveillance platform with AI policies for insider dealing and personal trading. The launch follows the integration of BSpeech, which converts recorded calls in more than 50 languages into searchable transcripts. The products extend Vault’s coverage across voice, email and chat. They also address the pressure that rising communications volumes...
Generative AI Expands the Communications Evidence Record
As AI enters communications, surveillance and investigations, firms face a wider record-keeping question: what evidence will explain how a regulated outcome arose? This was the focus for recent webinar hosted by A-Team Group’s RegTech Insight and sponsored by NICE Actimize, The Next Compliance Frontier: Monitoring GenAI and Unstructured Comms Data. Generative AI extends the evidence...