A-Team Insight Author: Jeri-Anne McKeon
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...
Europe’s Consolidated Tapes Near Launch With Their Core Promises Unresolved
After nearly two decades of debate, the European consolidated tapes are now just weeks away. The equities tape is scheduled to go live in July, the UK bond tape on 22 June. Yet a panel at A-Team Group’s ExchangeTech Summit London, moderated by Scott Charity, Head of Market Structure at Berenberg, and featuring Hayley McDowell,...
When Correlation Breaks: Why Crowding, Not Macro, Is Testing Quant Models
In February 2025, Goldman Sachs told clients the US equity market had become a stock-picker’s market: 74% of the typical S&P 500 stock’s return was being driven by company-specific factors rather than macro forces, against a 20-year average of 58%, and the bank expected that micro-driven environment to persist. Within weeks, sweeping tariff announcements had...
Kaiko Buys Amberdata as Digital Asset Data Consolidation Picks Up Pace
Kaiko has acquired Amberdata, its fifth acquisition and its second in a fortnight, in a deal that points less to any single transaction than to the speed at which the institutional digital asset data layer is consolidating into a small number of scaled providers. The Paris-headquartered firm announced the purchase of the US-based data and...