A-Team Insight Author: Jeri-Anne McKeon
Informatica Data Capabilities Drive Salesforce’s Agentic Platform
Informatica’s integration into the Salesforce architecture has proceeded at pace since it was acquired by the customer relationship management software platform last year. The extent of that transformation is being demonstrated in a worldwide Salesforce touring showcase. In the glitzy shows, the role of the artificial intelligence-powered data management specialist’s capabilities within Agentforce – Salesforce’s...
Token Tech: The Evolution and Architectures of Distributed Ledgers
Distributed ledger technology (DLT) is an essential ingredient for creating digital assets through tokenisation. Most commonly implemented as a blockchain (a cryptographically linked list of records that Is duplicated and synchronised across a number of network nodes), DLTs securely record and store digital tokens that represent specific assets. Most popularly implemented to support the bitcoin...
Pico Wires LDA’s NeoTap X Into Corvil for AI-Ready Network Data
Pico and LDA Technologies have announced an integration that will see Pico’s Corvil Analytics platform support LDA’s NeoTap X aggregation technology in the forthcoming Corvil Analytics 10.2 release. The integration allows Corvil to ingest NeoTap X metadata – high-precision timestamps, per-port sequencing and data integrity signals – directly into its analytics pipeline, giving firms a...
Citi’s Research Predicts Massive Digital Asset Market Growth; Provides DLT Implementation Advice
Citi’s June 2026 research report titled Tokenization 2030: Wall Street On-Chain makes key predictions on the expected institutional embrace of digital assets over the next five years and offers some best practice advice for those implementing DLT to support tokenisation initiatives. Overall, the report highlights the current initiatives by institutions to move from small pilot projects to...
MCPs in Data Management: A Fundamental Shift in Scaling AI
The breakneck development of artificial intelligence tools and applications is visible in the rapid emergence every six months or so of “the next big thing”. Generative AI was the big thing two years ago, agents were the big thing last year and this year it’s the turn of Model Context Protocols (MCPs). Attracting the “game...
Financial Operations Has an Invisible Tax Problem. AI Is Starting to Fix It
By Neil Vernon, chief product officer at Gresham. The financial services industry has spent considerable energy debating whether AI is production-ready for regulated operations. That debate has been asking the wrong question. Readiness is not the constraint; targeting is. The real question is whether firms have correctly identified where AI can address costs that have...
What Changes When 40 Years of Factor Analysis Takes Minutes?
What limits a research team when a piece of factor analysis that once consumed a morning of a quant’s time collapses into a single prompt and an answer? A recent collaboration between Axioma by SimCorp and the AI firm EDS brings the issue into focus. The answer it points to is no longer the cost...
NSCC Goes Live with 24×5 Clearing, Putting the Post-Trade Layer Ahead of the Exchanges
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has taken its National Securities Clearing Corporation (NSCC) subsidiary live with 24×5 clearing, extending the window from Sunday 8:00pm ET to Friday 8:00pm ET and applying NSCC’s central counterparty guarantee immediately to transactions executed across overnight sessions and multiple time zones. The change, which received SEC approval ahead...
FCA Horizon Scan Calls for Collaboration on AI and Programmable Finance Risks
In a first-of-its-kind publication, the FCA’s Emerging Tech & Research team has published Emerging Technology Horizon Scan 2026, setting out how emerging technologies could combine to reshape financial services, market infrastructure and the control environment that supports trust in UK markets. The report is designed to foster debate and encourage collaboration across the financial services...
ICMA and ISLA Push Basel III Debate Into Securities Financing
The International Capital Market Association (ICMA) and the International Securities Lending Association (ISLA) argue that US regulators should look more closely at how individual capital components contribute to overall exposure across repo, securities lending and derivatives markets in their Joint Response to Basel III NPR. The joint response uses two securities financing examples to make...