A-Team Insight Author: Jeri-Anne McKeon
Busy NeoXam Takes Aim at Private Market Data Challenges
It’s been a busy first half for French data and portfolio management technology provider NeoXam, with expansion of its Australian operations, an addition to its management team and strengthened partnerships with established clients. Amidst this busyness has been a focus on providing private-market data capabilities as buy-side firms increase their exposure to alternatives such as...
Uncovering Data Anomalies: 16 Data Observability Solutions for Capital Markets
Financial institutions’ operational resilience depends largely on the integrity of their data and the applications it feeds. The huge volume of data that modern organisations ingest makes this a challenge. The accuracy, completeness and timeliness of critical data can be improved if it is monitored and checked as it moves through increasingly intricate data pipelines...
Turning Regulation into an Advantage for UK Financial Sector SMEs
By Jon Lucas, Director and Co-Founder, Hyve Managed Hosting. While security and compliance have always been crucial pillars of cloud hosting, the landscape is shifting. New legislation and stricter regulatory frameworks are placing heavier demands on businesses – particularly in sectors like financial services – forcing companies to invest more time, and resources into ticking...
Trading Technologies Taps SIGMA AI to Build Dedicated AI Hub and Names Andy Simpson as Head of AI
Trading Technologies (TT) has deepened its partnership with fintech firm SIGMA AI through a strategic minority investment, tasking the company with building a proprietary AI and innovation hub to embed artificial intelligence across TT’s global trading platform. The move, which expands on an existing collaboration established in 2024, aims to accelerate TT’s AI adoption for...
Delta Capita’s Elaris OTC Stitches New Rails into the Derivatives Backoffice
Over the counter (OTC) derivatives remain one of the world’s largest financial markets. Bank for International Settlements (BIS) data puts notional outstanding at roughly US $700 trillion at mid 2024. Yet pockets of manual effort still reside in day today processing with industry estimates suggesting 20% of OTC trades are confirmed and settled by email...
Validating GenAI Models in Finance: A Q&A with Chandrakant Maheshwari on Risk, Governance, and the Rise of Agentic AI
At a recent RegTech Insight Advisory Board session, a discussion with Chandrakant on generative AI (GenAI) and model risk management underscored the need to cut through the hype and myths around GenAI and emerging agentic AI in regulated markets. This Q&A is the result. It examines why traditional model validation techniques—ROC curves and confusion matrices—can’t...
Lloyds, Aberdeen and Archax Complete UK-First Tokenised Collateral FX Trade
Lloyds Banking Group, Aberdeen Investments and Archax, the FCA-regulated exchange, broker, and custodian for digital assets, have completed a landmark foreign exchange (FX) trade using tokenised real-world assets as collateral, marking a first for the UK financial sector. The pilot transaction involved the use of tokenised units of Aberdeen’s money market fund and UK gilts...
Slaying the Monolith: A Pragmatist’s Guide to Modernising Trading Architecture
For decades, trading technology has been haunted by large, intricate, all-in-one applications that power core business functions, aka the monolith. While once a necessity, these systems have become a source of immense friction. They are brittle, expensive to maintain, and notoriously slow to change, creating a chasm between business demands for agility and IT’s capacity...
Navigating the Compliance Minefield: Decommissioning Legacy Voice Recording Systems
The financial services sector faces unprecedented scrutiny regarding communication record-keeping, a challenge amplified by evolving regulations and a proliferation of digital channels. A recent webinar hosted by A-Team Group and sponsored by Wordwatch, brought together industry experts to dissect the complexities of managing legacy voice recording transitions and charting a course for future-proof compliance. The...
Data Readiness is No Longer Optional for Banks
By Stuart Harvey, Chief Executive of Datactics. In a landscape marked by increasing regulatory scrutiny and accelerating digital change, data has long since shed its role as a by-product of banking operations and is now a critical strategic asset. The speed at which institutions must demonstrate data integrity, quality, and accessibility has made compliance not...