A-Team Insight Author: angela
FPGA-Accelerated Engine from Exegy Will Power EU’s First Equities Consolidated Tape
EuroCTP, the joint venture of 15 European exchange groups selected by the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) to deliver the EU’s first real-time consolidated tape for shares and ETFs, has named Exegy as its core technology partner. Exegy’s FPGA-accelerated ticker plant will serve as the data normalisation and consolidation engine at the centre of...
Synthetic Data’s Real Value Isn’t Alpha – It’s Confidence
The alternative data industry has largely settled the question of whether synthetic data has a place in institutional workflows. The harder question – and the one that dominated a lively panel discussion at the A-Team/Eagle Alpha Alternative Data Conference in New York – is where exactly that place is, and how far practitioners should trust...
Deutsche Börse Puts $200m Behind Kraken as Race to Build Hybrid Market Infrastructure Accelerates
Deutsche Börse Group has acquired a 1.5% fully diluted stake in Payward, Inc. – the parent company of global cryptocurrency platform Kraken – for $200 million, in a secondary share transaction that deepens a strategic partnership announced in December 2025. The investment is the latest and most concrete signal that Europe’s largest exchange group is...
Synechron-Cognition Collaboration Seeks to ‘Shift Paradigm’ in Software Creation
The race to harness artificial intelligence to create data products and software for financial institutions is at the heart of a collaboration between consultancy Synechron and technology developer Cognition. New York-headquartered Synechron, which has longstanding expertise in providing software solutions that financial organisations use to transform their operations, has embedded Cognition’s Devin agentic engineering platform...
Alteryx QnA: Automating Data and Analytics Transformations
California-based Alteryx has been helping financial institutions solve complex analytical tasks for more than a quarter of a century. Data Management Insight spoke to Jon Pexton, chief financial officer, to find out what drives the company and how its services benefit its clients. Data Management Insight: Hello Jon, when was Alteryx created and how does...
Sumsub and ComplyAdvantage Deepen AML Screening Partnership as Compliance Demands Rise
ComplyAdvantage and Sumsub have partnered to tighten AML screening by combining Sumsub’s verification and monitoring environment with ComplyAdvantage’s Mesh intelligence layer. The result is a more integrated compliance workflow that brings together customer and business verification and screening within a single platform. For Sumsub users, the partnership adds ComplyAdvantage’s screening intelligence directly into existing workflows,...
HSBC’s Canton Pilot Is a Milestone – But the Real Test Is Everything Around It
HSBC has completed a pilot issuing and settling its tokenised deposits on the Canton Network, the public blockchain developed by Digital Asset for regulated institutional finance. The bank’s Global Payments Solutions business simulated the issuance, transfer and atomic settlement of its Tokenised Deposit Service against other digital assets on Canton-enabled applications – the first time...
US ESG Pullback Opens a New Competitive Question
US resistance to sustainability disclosure at state and federal level is widening the regulatory gap for US-domiciled firms operating internationally. In March 2025, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) voted to end its defence of federal climate-disclosure rules. In December 2025, the White House issued an executive order targeting proxy advisers accused of promoting ESG...
FinCEN Overhauls AML and CFT Rules with a New Effectiveness Standard
Published April 7, 2026, FinCEN’s latest Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) is a sweeping overhaul of anti-money laundering (AML) and countering the financing of terrorism (CFT) programmes, recasting them around effectiveness, risk-based design and the fight against illicit finance. “For too long, Washington has asked financial institutions to measure success by the volume of paperwork...
12 Companies Bridging Agentic AI and Data Management in Capital Markets
The friction inherent in mobilising data is a perennial problem for financial institutions, who have spent the last decade perfecting the passive data stack – investing heavily in cloud warehouses, governance frameworks and ETL pipelines designed to move data for human consumption. However, the operational reality remains plagued by manual intervention. Recent developments in agentic...