A-Team Insight Author: angela
New Bloomberg US BDC Index Offers Insight into Private Credit
Bloomberg has launched a new index that brightens the light that is bringing transparency to often opaque private markets, this time with a focus on one of the sector’s more specialised corners. The New York-based data behemoth’s US BDC Aggregate Eligible Index (Ticker: BDCUSAGG) gives investors a unique view into how bonds issued by the...
The Latest Changes to the EU AI Act – What You Need to Know
By Nik Kairinos, CEO and Co-Founder of RAIDS AI. AI’s influence continues to grow, reaching across sectors and across borders. In financial services, it’s fundamentally changing how firms operate, shifting towards more precise, efficient, and innovative ways of working. At a foundational level, it provides the ability to analyse large volumes of data quickly and...
TS Imagine Data Highlights Accelerating Electronification of Fixed Income Trading
New data from TS Imagine points to a sharp acceleration in the electronification of fixed income markets, with growing adoption of electronic execution protocols, increased portfolio trading activity, and broader engagement across buy-side workflows. According to year-over-year figures from the firm’s TradeSmart fixed income execution management system, overall fixed income trading volumes rose 44 percent...
World Federation of Exchanges Urges Regulators to Balance Quantum Risk with Near-Term Cyber and AI Threats
The World Federation of Exchanges (WFE) has called on regulators to balance long-term quantum computing risks against more immediate operational challenges in the financial sector. The association’s press release highlights a substantial gap between regulatory expectations for early preparation and the industry’s current prioritisation of nearer-term threats such as generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) and cyber...
Basel III / FRTB: One Framework, Multiple Timelines, Mounting Pain for Global Firms
For much of the past decade, Basel III has been discussed as a global regulatory reform programme moving at uneven speed, but broadly in the same direction. The UK Prudential Regulation Authority’s confirmation of its Basel 3.1 timetable brings welcome clarity for firms operating in the UK market, yet it also underlines a deeper reality:...
LMAX Group and Ripple Partner to Embed Stablecoins at the Core of Institutional Cross-Asset Trading
LMAX Group has entered into a multi-year strategic partnership with Ripple, integrating Ripple’s USD-backed stablecoin, Ripple USD (RLUSD), as a core collateral asset across its institutional trading infrastructure. Under the agreement, RLUSD will be embedded across margining, collateralisation, custody and settlement workflows, supporting trading activity across spot crypto, perpetual futures and CFDs. Ripple will also...
Market Data Distribution Parity: Redefining Fairness
By Scott Schweitzer, Independent Consultant, LDA Technologies. Electronic exchanges play a vital role in the financial industry, providing a robust and trusted forum for trading and execution without issue. But even so, the technology available to exchanges has traditionally led to discrepancies in data distribution, from microseconds to nanoseconds, which can be critical for latency-sensitive...
NYSE Unveils Tokenised Securities Platform, Putting 24/7 Blockchain Trading Within Reach
The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), a unit of Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (ICE), has launched the development of a blockchain-enabled tokenised securities platform designed to support continuous trading and on-chain settlement of U.S. listed equities and exchange-traded funds (ETFs). The initiative is subject to regulatory approval and forms a central pillar of ICE’s broader strategy...
Chainlink Brings 24/5 U.S. Equities Data Onchain, Targeting Always-On Equity Markets
Chainlink, the blockchain technology company, has launched 24/5 U.S. Equities Streams, a new market-data service designed to support continuous, onchain trading of U.S. stocks and ETFs beyond standard market hours. The service provides sub-second equity pricing across regular, pre-market, post-market and overnight sessions, addressing a longstanding structural mismatch between always-on blockchain-based markets and time-bound U.S....
TRG Screen Launches AI Assist to Advance Reference Data Cost Management
Market data spend and usage management software provider TRG Screen has launched an artificial intelligence-powered capability to help financial institutions better manage spiralling data costs. The conversational AI interface sits on top of TRG Screen’s established Xmon platform, allowing users to interact with their own programme data using natural language. Instead of digging through technical reports, users can ask the system direct questions about cost optimisation opportunities and...