A-Team Insight Author: Jeri-Anne McKeon
FCA Proposes FRAME Reporting Reform Within £128m Asset Management Savings Package
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has proposed three reforms to UK asset management rules that it estimates would save firms £128 million a year. New fund reporting requirements account for most of the projected benefit, although their introduction would require technology and change projects across a sector managing £16.5 trillion. Fund Reporting for Asset Management...
Smarsh and AWS Target the Governance Gap in AI-Powered Surveillance
Smarsh recently reported what it describes as breakthrough results from its collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS), including a 77% reduction in compliance review workload at one global investment bank. The three-month deployment analysed millions of alerts and, according to Smarsh, produced a 2% decline in true positives. The results provide an early test of...
Rothera Leverages Adaptive Exchange Accelerator to Build Regulated Event Contract Venue
Rothera, the CFTC-regulated event contracts exchange and clearinghouse founded as a joint venture between Robinhood and Susquehanna International Group, has launched its trading and clearing platform on Adaptive’s Aeron Exchange Accelerator technology, going live in under five months, in time for the 2026 World Cup. The platform reports $3 billion contracts traded during its first...
MarketCheck’s Transparent Approach to Automotive Data
Most vendor conversations begin with what a dataset covers. MarketCheck on the other hand will tell you, in some detail, what its data can’t see. The company, founded in 2012, aggregates vehicle listings from public dealer advertising across the United States and Canada, and used vehicles in the UK. It captures roughly 6 million unique...
ESMA’s Data Quality Report Signals a Higher Bar for Regulatory Reporting Data
By Michele Hillery, Managing Director, Head of Repository & Derivatives Services at The Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC). Regulators across jurisdictions are leveraging trade reporting data as a supervisory resource, using it to monitor risk, assess market activity and inform policy and oversight decisions. As this use becomes more sophisticated, firms face an even...
The Performance Gap: How Data and Automation Are Separating Fixed Income Winners and Laggards
By Eugene Grinberg, Co-Founder and CEO, SOLVE. For decades, fixed-income markets rewarded opacity. Firms with the right relationships, proprietary data, or pricing advantages could generate outsized returns on a small number of well-timed trades. That model is breaking down. Fee compression, regulatory transparency requirements, and an explosion in available data have changed the basis of...
CME Group to Launch Treasury Link, Connecting BrokerTec Cash and CBOT Futures Ahead of Clearing Mandate
CME Group has announced Treasury Link, a service enabling spread trading between CBOT Treasury futures and BrokerTec cash Treasuries on CME Globex. The functionality allows participants to transact the differential between the two markets through a single submission, removing legging risk and enabling exposure to be managed via a single spread. It is expected to...
FlexTrade Partners with Portx to Place Portfolio Construction Inside the OEMS
Portfolio construction has historically sat upstream of the trading desk, in the portfolio manager’s own environment. And more often than the industry likes to admit, in a spreadsheet. FlexTrade, the multi-asset execution and order management systems vendor, has integrated the construction, optimisation and risk analytics of Portx, the London-based portfolio construction and analytics provider, into...
Accelerated Settlement Needs More Than Speed. It Needs a Common Language.
By Richard Baker, Founder and CEO, Tokenovate. The October 2027 transition date is approaching quickly, and firms across the market are reviewing operational processes, technology infrastructure and post-trade workflows. Significant progress has been made since the transition was announced, reflecting a broad recognition that shorter settlement cycles can reduce counterparty exposure and improve market efficiency....
DTCC Declares That Tokenisation Has Become a Reality as it Conducts First Production Demos of its ComposerX Platform
The Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC) today – 15th July, 2026 – declared that tokenisation has “become a reality” as it joined with partners to conduct a set of production demonstrations of its DTC Tokenization Service, which it plans to officially launch this October. A number of production tokenisation events were showcased, including: Conversion...