A-Team Insight Author: Jeri-Anne McKeon
The Missing Audit Trail in Agentic Workflows
As investment firms move AI agents out of experimental environments and into live workflows, the governance problem is becoming harder to ignore. Much of the early discussion around agentic AI has focused on what agents can do: retrieve information, call tools, analyse data, generate recommendations and increasingly act on behalf of users. Once those agents...
LayerZero Announces ATLAS, a Universal Blockchain-based Headless Exchange
Financial markets infrastructure developer LayerZero has announced ATLAS (for Aggregated Trading Liquidity and Settlement), a universal “headless exchange” built to power “the future of global markets.” Based on the company’s Zero blockchain, it combines matching, clearing, settlement and risk into a single integrated technology stack and provides the performance and fairness of a traditional exchange...
tZero and Sui Partner to Offer High Performance Institutional-Grade Tokenisation
tZERO Group announced a strategic partnership to integrate with the Sui blockchain, which is continuing to establish itself in the financial markets and payments space. Through the partnership, tZERO’s US-regulated trading, custody, and issuance framework will now support the Sui’s high-performance blockchain to offer institutional-grade tokenisation for projects currently building on the network. With more...
SEC Proposes “Regulation Crypto Assets” to Address Digital Assets Innovation while Congress Moves Slowly on CLARITY Act
In a move that was somewhat surprising given its timing, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) unveiled a new regulatory proposal titled “Regulation Crypto Assets“ that is expected to have significant impact not only on those involved in launching native crypto assets but also for the general digital assets and tokenisation space. The SEC’s...
FINOS Puts Common Domain Model (CDM) 7 into Production
In July, the FinTech Open Source Foundation (FINOS) released CDM 7 on GitHub consolidating more than 130 individual upgrades and development releases and followed up with a detailed analysis on August 14. The analysis was authored by Lionel Smith-Gordon and Ben Page of REGnosys, an active corporate member and key technology contributor to FINOS. The...
Ataccama Signals Product Focus with New CEO Appointment
Ataccama has appointed its former chief technology officer Martin Zahumensky as its new chief executive in a move that highlights the company’s focus on products in the next few years. Zahumensky replaces Mike McKee, an operations-oriented leader who had sat in the top seat since 2023 and helped to drive the Boston-based data trust company’s...
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...