A-Team Insight Author: Jeri-Anne McKeon
MCPs in Data Management: Bringing New Order to Private Markets
Financial institutions have begun deploying Model Context Protocols (MCPs) as they have expanded the use of artificial intelligence applications and agents. The technology developed by Anthropic is an open-source contextual layer that helps coordinate models and data, enabling AI applications to connect with a multitude of other platforms and processes. In the first of a...
Direct Lending Practitioners Target Large Tech Budget Growth on Data
An overwhelming majority of private credit market practitioners are planning to substantially increase their technology budgets as they seek to address risks that are contributing to concerns about the direct lending sector. A survey of hundreds of practitioners across Europe and North America found that almost four-fifths were “significantly increasing technology budgets”, with the largest...
Is the Real Value of Intraday Alternative Data in Risk, Not Alpha?
Intraday alternative data has long been the preserve of high-frequency and systematic desks, where speed provides an edge. But ask practitioners what decision it actually changes for a discretionary book, and the answer is rarely about generating a new trade, it is more about testing the one already on. Sizing, conviction and the risk sitting...
Next Generation Futures Trading Platform for Brokers and Prop Firms by Devexperts
By Jon Light, Senior Director of Product Management at Devexperts. US futures markets have gone from strength to strength in recent years, reflecting recognition among investors of this instrument as a highly effective way to express directional views and hedge risks pertaining to the global economy. Retail traders, too, continue to flock to futures due...
Adverse Media Screening Moves From Search to Risk Intelligence
Financial institutions have accepted adverse media screening as a core element of financial crime compliance, but the next challenge is more exacting: proving that the right entity is being screened, across the right sources, with a decision trail that can withstand scrutiny. That is the operational issue beneath Ripjar’s report, The State of Adverse Media...
MiFID II Research Reforms Put Joint Payments Back on the Buy-Side Agenda
June 6, 2026, marks the start of a new phase in Europe’s research-payment regime, with MiFID II reforms allowing investment managers to use joint-payment arrangements for execution and external research. The change gives buy-side firms more flexibility after years of research unbundling, but it also tests whether firms can rebuild the commission-management, governance and evidence...
The Industry Keeps Talking About 24/5 Trading, But Does It Actually Want It?
A panel convened to discuss the engineering of always-on markets spent most of its time on a more basic question: does anyone actually want them? The appetite for round-the-clock equity trading, it turned out, is far harder to find than the conversation about it would suggest. The session at A-Team Group’s ExchangeTech Summit London, entitled...
Bloomberg Names Apptopia Its Flagship Mobile Data Source, Extending a Curated Alt Data Model
Bloomberg has named Apptopia its flagship mobile app data provider, making it the designated mobile source across 2,000 tickers on the alternative data platform that sits on the Terminal. The choice extends a model Bloomberg has been building for months: curating the alternative data that reaches Terminal users rather than simply aggregating it. The terms...
Agentic AI, Data Readiness and Governance Shape AICMS London 2026
AI adoption in capital markets has entered a more exacting phase. The early cycle of pilots, productivity tools and isolated use cases is giving way to questions of operating model, governance, data architecture, control evidence and return on investment. A-Team Group’s AI in Capital Markets Summit London 2026 will examine that shift through a practical...
Aeron and QuestDB: Building Open Infrastructure for Capital Markets Data
“Co-authored by Adaptive | Aeron and QuestDB” Authors: Ralph Swann, Strategy Group, Adaptive Nicolas Hourcard, CEO, QuestDB Three questions every trading-tech leader is being asked right now. When the matching engine fails over, can we prove every order was handled in the order it arrived, with no losses and no surprises for the regulator? And...