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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...

BMLL Adds Kalshi Data as Prediction Markets Move Deeper into Institutional Workflows

BMLL, the market data and analytics provider, has added historical prediction market data from Kalshi to its global market data platform, giving quantitative and systematic investment firms a standardised dataset for incorporating event probabilities into macro research, backtesting and trading models. Under the partnership announced today, Kalshi’s historical order book will be normalised into the...

Rethinking Market Data Distribution for a New Generation of Markets

Pyth Network has expanded rapidly from its roots in blockchain-based market data into a broader financial data platform, bringing together more than 138 institutional publishers and thousands of price feeds across equities, FX, commodities, crypto and other asset classes. Its ecosystem now includes names ranging from Coinbase and Fidelity to Kalshi, Revolut, Polymarket and Hyperliquid....

OSTTRA Targets FX Timing Mismatches Behind Margin Disputes

OSTTRA, the global post-trade network, has expanded its triResolve portfolio reconciliation service with a new prediction model designed to identify one of the most persistent causes of margin disputes in the FX market: counterparties valuing the same trade using market rates captured at different times. The FX Snap Time Prediction Model uses historical trade valuation...

Data Opportunities Abound in Migration to the Cloud: Webinar Preview

The shift from on-premises data management to the cloud is a huge undertaking that requires an enormous amount of planning. The benefits, though, are potentially even greater; after all, why else would an organisation go through the process of lifting and shifting the most vital ingredient in their operational arsenal? The move to cloud-based services...

Semantic Frameworks Slow to Gain Traction Despite Criticality to Data Democratisation: Webinar Review

Semantic layers have become critical to financial institutions as they have expanded the use of artificial intelligence agents and widened staff access to them. The sophisticated interfaces give non-technical users the ability to guide agents to interact with their firms’ data and build efficient workflows. And yet, few organisations have really got their teeth into...

Broadridge Launches DLX Digital Asset Infrastructure for Full Lifecycle Tokenisation

Building on its established Distributed Ledger Repo (DLR) capability for collateral mobility and securities financing, Broadridge Financial Solutions has launched DLX, an integrated, end-to-end tokenisation and digital asset infrastructure platform for financial institutions. DLR, which recently broadened its support for different assets, processes more than $350 billion in daily activity across thousands of transactions. DLX...

Nasdaq Invests in Payward, Continues Collaboration on NET Framework

Exchange technology group Nasdaq has announced a $100 million strategic investment in Payward, the parent company of the cryptocurrency exchange Kraken, to expand their collaborative work on tokenised market infrastructure. Facilitated through its investment arm, Nasdaq Ventures, the transaction includes a capital infusion, a market surveillance agreement and continued joint development of the proposed Nasdaq Equity Token (NET) framework. Founded in...

MEMX Launches MX2 as Options Expansion Gathers Pace

MEMX Group has launched MX2 Options, its second US listed-options exchange, adding a customer-priority, pro-rata market model as the exchange operator continues to broaden its footprint in options and build towards its planned combination with BOX. MX2 began trading on 14 September, processing more than 1,500 contracts across an initial 10 symbols on its first...