A-Team Insight Author: angela
BMLL and Exponential Decode US Equity Flow from the Order Book
BMLL and Exponential Technology have partnered to launch XTech US Equity Flow, a product that decodes full-depth US equity order-book data into net buying and selling attributed by investor type. Announced on 2 July, it breaks flow down into high-frequency, fund and retail activity across US equity venues, turning raw microstructure data into something the...
AI in Finance Requires Developing the Right Operational Mindset
By Carl Thornberg, Head of Optimisation and Analytics Technology at OSTTRA. Integrating AI into the finance sector requires navigating a robust regulatory landscape designed to ensure stability and security, a process that demands a deliberate and meticulous approach to technology adoption. To build confidence for experimentation with this not-yet-fully-understood technology, essential safety nets must be...
Is Speed No Longer the Hard Part in Trading Infrastructure?
A panel of high-performance trading infrastructure architects, convened at A-Team Group’s recent TradingTech Summit New York to discuss the blueprint for speed, spent remarkably little of its time talking about speed. The tick-to-trade race still runs, and firms still shave nanoseconds where a strategy justifies it, but raw latency is the part this end of...
Six RegTech Providers Tackling Sanctioned Securities and Financial-Instrument Screening
Sanctions screening in capital markets and treasury extends beyond conventional checks on payments, people and legal entities. Firms need to identify exposure inside securities, issuers, funds (including ETFs), indices, structured products, derivatives and custody positions. They also need to track changes as sanctions regimes, ownership structures and instrument composition shift. That creates a different control...
When Market Data’s Cloud Migration Is Over, What’s Left Behind?
The firms furthest along with cloud have stopped arguing about whether market data belongs there. What occupies them now are the questions that outlasted the migration: where the on-premises boundary finally holds, what turns out to cost money, and whether entitlement frameworks built for headcount can survive machines that consume data at machine speed. Getting...
A-Team Group Announces Capital Markets Technology APAC Awards 2026 Winners and Launches ‘State of the Market’ Report
A-Team Group today announced the highly anticipated winners of the Capital Markets Technology APAC Awards 2026. These prestigious awards celebrate the most innovative solution providers and financial institutions that are reshaping the capital markets technology landscape across the dynamic Asia Pacific region. In conjunction with the awards, A-Team Group has also launched the “State of...
Drive to Scale AI Makes Trust the Holy Grail of Data Managers: Webinar Preview
The race to implement artificial intelligence at scale within financial institutions’ technology stacks has made it imperative that they ensure their data foundations are solid. Without trusted data, AI is a potential minefield of erroneous outputs, hallucinated responses and inaccurate analyses. This compromises leaders’ ability to make well-informed decisions and poses the risk they’ll make...
Informatica Data Capabilities Drive Salesforce’s Agentic Platform
Informatica’s integration into the Salesforce architecture has proceeded at pace since it was acquired by the customer relationship management software platform last year. The extent of that transformation is being demonstrated in a worldwide Salesforce touring showcase. In the glitzy shows, the role of the artificial intelligence-powered data management specialist’s capabilities within Agentforce – Salesforce’s...
Token Tech: The Evolution and Architectures of Distributed Ledgers
Distributed ledger technology (DLT) is an essential ingredient for creating digital assets through tokenisation. Most commonly implemented as a blockchain (a cryptographically linked list of records that Is duplicated and synchronised across a number of network nodes), DLTs securely record and store digital tokens that represent specific assets. Most popularly implemented to support the bitcoin...
Pico Wires LDA’s NeoTap X Into Corvil for AI-Ready Network Data
Pico and LDA Technologies have announced an integration that will see Pico’s Corvil Analytics platform support LDA’s NeoTap X aggregation technology in the forthcoming Corvil Analytics 10.2 release. The integration allows Corvil to ingest NeoTap X metadata – high-precision timestamps, per-port sequencing and data integrity signals – directly into its analytics pipeline, giving firms a...