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SOLVE Expands AI-Powered Municipal Bond Pricing Tool with Relative Value Analysis Feature
SOLVE, the provider of pre-trade data and predictive pricing for fixed income markets, has introduced a new Relative Value Analysis capability to its AI-driven municipal bond pricing platform, SOLVE Px. The enhancement is aimed at improving transparency and decision-making for municipal bond traders, portfolio managers, and risk teams. The newly released feature allows users to...
Implementing and Understanding Modern Data Architectures: Webinar Preview
The evolution of data use by financial institutions has been accompanied by ever-changing challenges to its management. With technologies such as artificial intelligence enabling firms to prise greater value from their data and to subject it to greater utilisation, a new set of data management practices have emerged. These modern data architectures regard data as...
Experts Probe Data Management Best Practices for Regulatory Reporting: Webinar Preview
Compliance with regulators is getting harder for data professionals as economic volatility and geopolitical strains look set to reshape how global financial markets are overseen. As data professionals brace to take the brunt of the work needed to comply with these rapid and unpredictable changes, A-Team Group will host a webinar that will probe the...
From AI Sprint to AI Live Testing – FCA Leads the Way
The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) recently published its Proposal For AI Live Testing engagement paper outlining a 12-month pilot inside the regulator’s AI Lab. This is designed to enable firms with production-ready AI models to trial them in controlled live-market conditions, under close FCA technical and supervisory support, exploring output-driven validation, model-risk safeguards and...
8 Best Practices for Regulatory Data Management and Reporting – Upcoming Webinar
Over the past three years, regulatory data management and reporting have presented financial institutions globally with an escalating set challenges. Amongst these, the inadequacy of data governance frameworks has seen significant enforcement actions against tier-1 firms. In a joint OCC/Federal Reserve action in 2024, Citigroup faced a $135.6 million fine for persistent deficiencies in risk...
Unlocking Competitive Edge: Outsourcing and Managed Services in Trading Technology
Faced with intensifying cost pressures, regulatory shifts, evolving market dynamics and rapid technological change, capital markets firms are seeing the roles of outsourcing and managed services becoming increasingly strategic. But how do they decide what to outsource and what to retain in-house? How can they preserve agility and oversight while handing over key infrastructure? And...
Options Expands London Operations with New Office at 100 Bishopsgate
Options Technology has opened a second London office at 100 Bishopsgate, expanding its physical presence in the heart of the City’s financial district. The new office complements the firm’s existing Pall Mall location and is designed to support growing demand from sell-side clients and technology partners based in the area. Samuel Farmer, Senior Vice President...
A-Team Group Announces Winners of its Prestigious Innovation Awards 2025
The most innovative data and technology solutions for capital markets were recognised today as A-Team Group announced the winners of this year’s A-Team Group Innovation Awards 2025. Now in its fifth year, the prestigious awards recognise the innovative projects created across the vendor and practitioner communities that provide high-value solutions to organisations within capital markets...
LSEG Wins Most Innovative Data Quality Initiative Award in A-Team Group Innovation Awards 2025
LSEG has won the Most Innovative Data Quality Initiative Award in A-Team Group’s Innovation Awards 2025 for its Tick History – PCAP, which was expanded this year to offer more than 400 feeds, with new coverage spanning 14 markets in the Americas, eight in the Asia-Pacific region and 76 in EMEA. These awards, now in...
ION Enhances XTP Risk JANUS with AI to Improve Pre-Trade Margin Accuracy
ION has incorporated artificial intelligence into its XTP Risk JANUS platform to improve the accuracy and efficiency of pre-trade risk management for cleared derivatives. The enhancement targets a key challenge in margin estimation using CME Group’s SPAN2 Approximation model. SPAN2 is a margin methodology developed by CME that assesses the worst-case losses of futures and...