A-Team Insight Author: Jeri-Anne McKeon
Build, Buy, or Both? Why the Real Question for Quant Infrastructure Has Shifted to Where the Edge Sits
The questions have become perennial: build versus buy, cloud versus on-premise, in-house versus managed platform. But the discussion that emerged from a recent A-Team Group webinar on quantitative research infrastructure pointed to something more interesting than a binary choice. The build-versus-buy question, panellists agreed, has matured into a more sophisticated conversation about where firms locate...
Clean Data Is Not Enough to Power AI
By Shai Popat, managing director, product and commercial strategy, financial information, SIX. Agentic AI projects are beginning to roll out across the financial industry. Many firms are testing AI’s feasibility by assigning it relatively simple tasks, such as summarising information or retrieving data and documents from internal databases. Two maxims are often cited when discussing...
LexisNexis Q&A: Ensuring Data Trust, From News to Governance
Since the 1970s, LexisNexis has been providing a variety of data services to financial institutions. Data Management Insight spoke to Danielle McCormick, vice president of product, Global Nexis Solutions, to discuss how financial institutions are approaching AI, trusted data and the future of enterprise intelligence. Data Management Insight: Hello Danielle, when were LexisNexis’ data operations...
European Market Structure’s Unfinished Business, Mapped
Two decades after MiFID I set out to introduce competition into European equity markets, the regulatory project has reshaped market structure without finishing the job it was meant to do. That, at least, was the thesis put to the opening panel at A-Team Group’s inaugural ExchangeTech Summit London earlier this month, entitled “Navigating the European...
Why MSCI’s PM Insights Acquisition Matters for Private Market Valuation
The assumption that private companies can be reliably valued through reference to their public-market peers is breaking down at exactly the moment a market-derived alternative is becoming viable. That structural shift – more than the transaction itself – is what makes MSCI’s acquisition of PM Insights, announced six weeks ago, worth paying attention to. A...
Is the Most Expensive Failure Mode in Alt Data on the User Side?
Asked at the A-Team/Eagle Alpha Alternative Data Conference, London last week which datasets his firm had ever taken out of production, one panellist paused, considered the question, and admitted he could not think of a single one. The answer was offered without defensiveness, as a genuine reflection. It also turned out to be one of...
AI in Compliance Recording: Five Questions Firms Need to Answer Now
For capital markets firms, the regulatory communications archive has become more complex as trading and client interactions now span voice, chat, collaboration tools, mobile channels and more, requiring firms to capture, structure, retain and evidence a fuller communications trail across fragmented systems. This complexity is forcing firms to look beyond recording as a retention obligation...
Symphony Extends Secure Messaging Into AI, Voice Assurance and Off-Channel Controls
Symphony is growing beyond its origins in secure messaging as financial institutions look for controlled ways to connect workflows, communication channels, voice data and AI across regulated markets. In a recent interview with RegTech Insight, CEO Ben Chrnelich framed the development around infrastructure already embedded in the Symphony network: directory, identity, permissions, encryption and connectivity....
Virtex Partners with Gold-i as TradFi and DeFi Brokerage Stacks Converge
Virtex Technologies, a year-old London-based vendor positioning itself as an “operating system for digital asset brokerages”, has selected Gold-i, an established FX and crypto connectivity firm, as its first integration partner. The pairing connects Virtex’s front-end and brokerage workflow platform to Gold-i’s MatrixNET liquidity management layer, giving clients single-point access to more than 35 crypto...
Preqin Anchors Private Credit Analytics in Firm-Owned Data
When BlackRock unveiled expanded private credit capabilities on Preqin earlier this month, the announcement set out a vision of greater transparency across an asset class long defined by its opacity. The methodological choices behind that vision are what make it work: a deliberate decision to build benchmarks from firm-owned data only, to keep different fund...