A-Team Insight Author: Jeri-Anne McKeon
The Next Frontier in Best Execution Is The Data Layer
By Arun Sundaram, head of commercial data and analytics, LMAX Group. Best execution was once about securing the strongest possible result for clients on an individual trade. Over the past few decades, the industry has become much better at measuring that outcome through fill rates, slippage and rejection ratios. But the next frontier isn’t the...
What is the Value of a Failed Company’s Data in the AI Era?
When an airline goes bankrupt, there are some fairly obvious assets to be sold: aircraft, airport slots, equipment, intellectual property and perhaps its brand. But the bankruptcy of Spirit Airlines has highlighted another potentially valuable asset – the accumulated data exhaust of the enterprise itself. Google recently won an auction to acquire a substantial collection...
Rethinking Alternative Data Infrastructure with Aerospike
Investment firms have never had access to more data. From corporate filings and social media to satellite imagery, transaction data and other alternative sources, the range of information that can potentially feed the investment process continues to expand. But as AI becomes embedded more deeply into research and investment workflows, the challenge is shifting. Simply...
Bond Market Stress Starts at the Top, But the Real Challenge Lies Further Down
By Kevin Rutter, CEO, AIQ Markets. As any bond trader will tell you, when stress occurs in investment grade, it’s time to take notice. The New York Fed recently flagged a sharp increase in high-grade trading dysfunction during July. The CDMI Index, a weekly composite measure that represents the health and functioning of primary and...
Bruce Markets and ABN AMRO Tackle the Infrastructure Challenge of 24×5 US Equities
The push towards near-continuous trading in US equities is moving beyond the question of whether execution venues can remain open overnight. Increasingly, attention is turning to whether the market infrastructure surrounding those venues, from clearing and market data to routing, risk management and operations, can support the same extended trading window. That shift is reflected...
Sigma Capital Partners MENA Selects TRAFiX for Global Equities Expansion
Sigma Capital Partners MENA Limited has selected TRAFiX’s order management system to support a new institutional trading capability, initially providing access to global equities markets. The Dubai International Financial Centre-based broker will use the platform to give clients streamlined access to global equities through a single OMS. The companies plan to extend the offering to...
Taurus Completes Hedera DLT Integration; Offers Custody, Issuance of Tokenised Assets
Swiss-headquartered digital asset infrastructure provider Taurus, which works with banks and regulated financial institutions, is now offering Hedera’s complete DLT stack, providing functionality for the custody and issuance of tokenised assets. Taurus is used by more than 40 banks and regulated financial institutions worldwide, including Deutsche Bank, CACEIS and State Street. It has built out...
Data Firms Responding as AI Seen Driving Sovereignty Concern
While the criticality of data to financial institutions has made its security paramount, the internationalisation of that information has made it a strategic priority. With ever greater volumes of data criss-crossing the world within and between organisations’ systems, data sovereignty has become a key component of governance policies required by regulators. Once considered relevant to...
Ondo Finance Backs SEC’s Proposed Rollback of Reg NMS Trade Through Rule
Ondo Finance – which operates a transaction platform for tokenised assets – has added its support to a Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) proposal to roll back the long-standing ‘trade through rule” related to Regulation NMS. The SEC’s motivation is that it now believes the rule leads to market fragmentation and increased costs, while Ondo is...
Model Context Protocol Opens Agentic AI for RegTech Platforms
As 2025 was the year GenAI took hold in RegTech solutions, 2026 is seeing the rise of AI agent adoption raising the upside for compliance automation and creating new risk surfaces. Early GenAI solutions enabled unstructured communications, policies and case files to combine with structured transaction and customer data. Early use-cases focused on productivity enhancements...