A-Team Insight Author: Jeri-Anne McKeon
The New Economics of Equities Trading Infrastructure
How modular architecture, 24/5 trading, and the rising cost of change are reshaping equities infrastructure By Ian Salmon, Head of Accelerator Program, Adaptive. Equities trading infrastructure has traditionally been judged against a familiar set of measures: latency, throughput, reliability and the ability to remain stable during periods of intense market activity. Those requirements remain fundamental....
MSCI’s First Street Acquisition to Fill Climate Risk Gap for Investors
Data, ratings and analytics giant MSCI is betting its latest acquisition will enable investors to close the gap between perceived climate risks to their physical assets and disclosures about the impacts that severe weather is actually having on them. First Street’s global data feeds use environmental, geospatial and satellite technology to detail the vulnerabilities of...
Exegy and MarketsIO Target the Market Data Migration Deadlock
For years, financial institutions have faced an uncomfortable trade-off around enterprise market data infrastructure. Legacy platforms may be expensive, complex and increasingly ill-suited to modern trading environments, but replacing technology embedded across hundreds or thousands of applications can introduce even greater cost and operational risk. A recently announced partnership between Exegy and MarketsIO is taking...
The Low-Latency Race Shifts from Speed to Scale and Control
For years, the evolution of low-latency trading infrastructure has largely been measured in one direction: faster. Microseconds became nanoseconds as trading firms invested in colocation, network optimisation, specialist hardware and FPGA acceleration to gain an edge in markets where position in the queue can determine whether an order is filled. That race hasn’t gone away....
Bloomberg Vault Adds AI Surveillance Models for Insider Dealing and Personal Trading
Bloomberg has expanded its Vault communications surveillance platform with AI policies for insider dealing and personal trading. The launch follows the integration of BSpeech, which converts recorded calls in more than 50 languages into searchable transcripts. The products extend Vault’s coverage across voice, email and chat. They also address the pressure that rising communications volumes...
Generative AI Expands the Communications Evidence Record
As AI enters communications, surveillance and investigations, firms face a wider record-keeping question: what evidence will explain how a regulated outcome arose? This was the focus for recent webinar hosted by A-Team Group’s RegTech Insight and sponsored by NICE Actimize, The Next Compliance Frontier: Monitoring GenAI and Unstructured Comms Data. Generative AI extends the evidence...
RTS London – From Periodic Remediation to Continuous Proof
Regulators can interrogate reported data faster and in greater detail. Compliance controls will need to keep pace. That pressure extends beyond regulatory reporting. Artificial intelligence (AI) is moving into surveillance, regulatory change and financial-crime workflows. Firms must now demonstrate that the data supporting those systems is accurate, consistently represented and traceable to its source. Speakers...
As AI Lowers the Bar for Alternative Data, Where Does the Edge Move Next?
Alternative data has spent much of the past decade moving from the margins of investment research towards the mainstream. Now, artificial intelligence is accelerating that process, making datasets easier to discover, evaluate, process and combine while allowing investment teams to tackle sources that would previously have required considerable engineering resources. But that creates a new...
A-Team Group Announces Winners of the Data Management Insight Awards – USA 2026
A-Team Group today announced the winners of its annual Data Management Insight Awards – USA 2026, celebrating outstanding vendors, service providers, and consultancies delivering innovative data management solutions to North American capital markets. Now in its sixth year, the awards recognise both established market leaders and groundbreaking newcomers across more than 40 categories, including Best...
Waypoint Launches Archon to Tackle Market Data Entitlement Complexity
Waypoint Trading Solutions, the TNS business built on the combination of TNS Financial Markets and Radianz, has launched a new market data entitlement management platform designed to give financial institutions greater control over user permissions, exchange reporting and the costs associated with market data consumption. The new system, Waypoint Archon, centralises entitlement tracking across individual...