A-Team Insight Author: Rollings Nicole
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...
SmartStream Brings MCP-Based AI Access to Collateral Operations
SmartStream, the data solutions provider for global financial institutions, has extended its use of agentic AI into collateral management with the launch of two Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers for its Smart Collateral platform, giving financial institutions a standards-based way to connect approved AI assistants directly to collateral data and workflows. The move is designed...
HelmGuard Raises $7.3m Seed Round to Replace Compliance Paperwork with AI Agents that Verify Risk Directly
Agentic governance, risk and compliance platform HelmGuard has raised $7.3 million to expand in the US and develop technology that monitors AI agents at runtime. Infinity Ventures and Frontline co-led the seed round, with participation from FinTech Collective, Stage 2 Capital and Entrepreneurs First. HelmGuard plans to establish operations in New York and San Francisco,...
Data Management Summit NYC 2026 Ready to Examine Rapidly Transforming Industry
Final preparations are being made for A-Team Group’s 16th annual Data Management Summit NYC, which will bring leaders and experts from around the world to take a deep dive into the drivers, themes and trends that are shaping the data industry for financial institutions. Over a full day of keynote addresses and expert panel discussions,...
Finbourne Puts Even More Humans in the Loop to Build Client Confidence and Business
In an age when many firms are handing over ever more functions to artificial intelligence, Finbourne Technology is going all-out with investment in human engineers to take the company’s investment management data and technology capabilities to its customers. Finbourne has launched the Forward Deployment Engineering (FDE) programme in which it created a team of 30...
Mid-Tier Banks Benefiting from Integrated Data Overlay as Tech Demands Deepen, White Paper States
Integrated data overlays are offering mid-tier banks the opportunity to transform their data infrastructures without having to undergo disruptive and potentially expensive replacement projects. By creating a dynamic enterprise-wide data layer, organisations are able to knit together their data, no matter how fragmented, in real time and deliver a single source of truth for business...