A-Team Insight Author: Jeri-Anne McKeon
In Strategically Important Collaboration, Swift and 17 Banks to Pilot Tokenised Deposit Transactions
Swift has announced that its blockchain-based ledger is ready for early adopter financial institutions to support 24/7 cross-border payments via interoperable tokenised deposits. The pilot represents the first step in what might unfold as the payment network’s response to the emerging threat posed by stablecoins. In all, 17 banks from six continents are preparing to...
Quantifying the Business Value of Data Observability: Webinar Key Takeaways
Data observability tools help remediation processes keep quality in check and pipelines healthy as data flows at increasing volumes to end users. A-Team Group’s most recent webinar, The ROI of Data Trust: Quantifying the Business Value of Data Observability, examined the best practices, pain points and solutions for ensuring organisations derive the greatest value from...
Asian KYB Requires Live Registry Data, Not Another Database: AsiaVerify CEO
Asian know-your-business (KYB) controls have an uncomfortable blind spot: firms can spend heavily on onboarding, sanctions screening and case management while still making decisions from corporate records that may be weeks or months out of date – and sometimes more. AsiaVerify CEO Leas Bachatene spoke with RegTech Insight about the KYB challenges for firms with...
Selling the Proof, Not the Data
For most of the past decade, a vendor specialising in natural-language processing (NLP) could sell a hedge fund something it could not easily make for itself. Sentiment scored from news, filings and earnings calls, provided as a clean feed, mapped to individual stocks and timestamped for point-in-time use. The work of pulling that signal out...
Why Private Markets Need Numbers They Can Defend
By Gareth Hewitt, Founder, LemonEdge. Private markets run on confidence. Performance still matters but investor trust increasingly depends on whether a general partner (GP) can defend the numbers behind it and whether a limited partner (LP) has enough transparency to test and reconcile those numbers for itself. A capital account balance, valuation movement, fee calculation...
When Silence is the Best Measure of Success: ROI of Data Trust Webinar Review
When data observability and remediation tools work, the only measure of success is silence – nothing happens, no data breaks, no anomalies, no dramas. It might seem hard to demonstrate the success of something when there is nothing to show, especially when the business is required to prove the value of the process to secure...
Sanctioned Securities Risk Moves Inside the Portfolio
Sanctions screening in capital markets has traditionally been treated as a specialist compliance concern: one for legal teams, sanctions officers and financial crime specialists to manage through lists, policies and escalation procedures. That view is becoming increasingly difficult to sustain in capital markets, where sanctions exposure can be hidden inside the securities, funds and structured...
When Everyone Has the Same AI Models, Is Discipline the New Differentiator?
Enterprise adoption of AI inside capital markets firms has reached a point where the frontier models are widely available, the coding agents and orchestration frameworks are broadly the same from one firm to the next, and the cost of building something has fallen far enough that a business user with no engineering background can now...
Kalshi and the Search for an Orthogonal Signal
Prediction markets have spent the past two years moving from the margins of financial markets towards something institutional desks are willing to take seriously. Kalshi, the CFTC-regulated event-contract venue, has been at the centre of that shift, and its ambitions now extend well beyond providing a place to trade. Over an eight-week period the firm...
Open Standard Group Set to Challenge Circle, Tether in $300 Billion Stablecoin Market
A consortium led by Visa, BlackRock, Google and Coinbase, and including more than 140 financial services, e-commerce, technology and DLT players, plans to launch a US Dollar-denominated stablecoin dubbed Open USD later this year. When it goes live, the Open Standard group will challenge existing leaders Circle and Tether, which between them dominate the $300+...