A-Team Insight Author: Jeri-Anne McKeon
FCA Market Watch 86 Reveals Material Weaknesses in MAR Surveillance
The FCA recently published Market Watch 86 highlighting a number of deficiencies in the systems, controls and governance over market abuse regulation (MAR). This follows supervisory visits to seven large retail oriented broker-dealers with high volumes of single-stock equities playing an important role in identifying and reporting potential insider dealing and exposure to other forms...
BBH Subsidiary Braid Seeks to Fill Data Transformation Hole for Financial Institutions
As data is distributed throughout an enterprise, it has to be integrated with a variety of technologies in order to bring efficiencies to different workflows. This can create a lot of manual overhead, particularly in organisations with fragmented legacy tech systems. While bolt-on point solutions exist, they tend to be custom-built for particular use cases...
InterSystems-Aegis Trace Collaboration Seeks to Give Clients AI Adoption Confidence
Data management solutions provider InterSystems has been working with Aegis Trace to support the development of capabilities within its AI decision-traceability platform, helping financial institutions and other regulated organisations improve transparency, accountability and confidence in AI-supported decision making. MSDK Labs-developed Aegis Trace has used the InterSystems IRIS Data Platform to support the development of its...
How AI is Reshaping the Buy/Build Calculus for Capital Markets Technology
Artificial intelligence is changing the economics of technology development across capital markets, making it faster and cheaper for firms to build their own applications. But while AI is lowering the barriers to software development, it is also raising questions about long-term ownership costs, the pace of vendor innovation and where firms should focus their technology...
Data and Governance Take Centre Stage in AI Adoption
Financial institutions are making significant progress in deploying agentic AI, but differences in data infrastructure, governance and commercial priorities are creating a widening gap between those scaling the technology and those still experimenting, according to new research from A-Team Group. The study, commissioned by LSEG Data & Analytics and based on responses from 200 senior...
The $1million Brokerage Fee Blind Spot Banks Can No Longer Ignore
By Liz Collegio, Head of Product Management, Meritsoft (a Cognizant company). Banks scrutinise every fraction of a basis point on the trading desk, yet millions can still leak away through brokerage fees. These fees are the cost of doing business, but few have a clear view of what they should be paying across the business....
S&P Global Expands AI Data Strategy with Visible Alpha, Credit Ratings and Enhanced ChatIQ
S&P Global is extending its AI-enabled data delivery capabilities with the addition of Visible Alpha consensus estimates and credit ratings to its AI Data Portal, alongside expanded conversational AI functionality within Capital IQ Pro. The announcements reflect a broader strategy to make its financial datasets accessible through external AI applications and agents while embedding AI...
A-Team Group Announces AI in Capital Markets Awards 2026 Winners
As artificial intelligence dominates conversations among the decisions makers of the world’s financial institutions, A-Team Group has recognised the vendors that are enabling those firms to transform their operations with the most cutting edge of technologies. In its second annual AI in Capital Markets Awards, the group celebrates the technology suppliers in this fast-growing sector...
To Beat Financial Crime, Banks Need to Start Doing the Time
By Sean Vickers, Global Head of CLM, Delta Capita. When it comes to having the resources to fight financial crime – have banks ever had it so good? Think about it, not only has technology never been more sophisticated, but financial institutions can now call on armies of consultants to advise on compliance, not to...
LSEG and NVIDIA Accelerate Historical Market Data Analysis from Hours to Seconds
LSEG has announced a collaboration with NVIDIA that enables financial institutions to analyse years of historical tick data in seconds rather than hours, using GPU-accelerated processing technology. The initiative is designed to support increasingly data-intensive quantitative research, trading analytics and AI applications, while maintaining the licensing and access controls governing institutional market data. The collaboration...