A-Team Insight Author: Rollings Nicole
Open USD is Live: Consortia-managed Stablecoin Looks to Remake Internet Finance
The Open USD (OUSD) stablecoin is officially live as of September 30, marking a shift in the digital asset landscape by introducing an open-architecture stablecoin designed to compete directly with traditional, single-issuer models, such as Tether and Circle. Announced earlier this year, OUSD is issued by Stripe’s Bridge unit and is operated by the independent Open Standard...
Where Should Trading Firms Spend Their Latency Budget?
The pursuit of lower latency in electronic trading hasn’t disappeared, but the engineering decisions behind it are becoming more selective. Rather than trying to make every component of the trading stack as fast as possible, firms need to determine where microseconds genuinely affect trading outcomes, where predictable performance matters more than absolute speed, and where...
Nasdaq Calypso Builds Agentic Layer for the Shift to Always-On Markets
Nasdaq is extending its Calypso capital markets solution beyond its traditional role as a system of record, adding an agentic AI layer designed to support increasingly automated workflows across trading, risk, clearing and collateral management while retaining the deterministic processing at the core of the platform. The move follows the launch of an agentic AI...
Solidatus Updates AI to Give Agentic Boost to Workflow Speed and Scale
Data lineage and governance specialist Solidatus has expanded its AI capabilities in a new release that introduces enhanced AI Assistant functionality, bring-your-own-LLM support and new integrations designed to help organisations accelerate governance and data lineage workflows. In the summer, the company upgraded its service offerings with update 2026.3 the contains a set of capabilities that...
Google Just Put a Price on Old Enterprise Data
By Jerry Caviston, CEO, Archive360. In August, Google was selected as the successful bidder in a $10 million auction for enterprise data from Spirit Airlines. The proposed sale still requires court approval, but the bid has already delivered a useful signal. Historical data can retain value long after the process that created it has ended....
FCA Opens Consultation on New Transaction Reporting Regime
The Financial Conduct Authority’s latest transaction reporting consultation sets out how firms would apply rules that change reporting responsibilities, client data exchanges and the treatment of historical records. Preparing for the April 2028 deadline will require decisions about who supplies reporting data and how systems preserve it through the transition. Published in August 2026, Policy...
What You Missed at This Year’s RegTech Summit London
Evidence and accountability ran through this year’s RegTech Summit London. As artificial intelligence takes on more compliance work, firms need to explain decisions, trace reported data to its source and assign responsibility for errors. Across this year’s sessions, speakers returned to fragmented systems, continuous controls and the expertise needed to challenge automated results. The opening...
Are Prediction Markets Becoming Data Sources Before They Become Trading Venues?
Prediction markets have become increasingly visible in financial markets over the past two years, fuelled by rapid growth in platforms such as Kalshi and Polymarket and their prominence around elections, monetary policy and geopolitical events. For institutional investors, however, their most immediate value may lie less in trading the contracts themselves than in the stream...
Castellum.AI’s Financial Crime Benchmark Finds Accuracy & Consistency Gaps in Standalone LLMs
Castellum.AI announced its FinCrime Agent Benchmark (FCA Bench) in September that compares the performance of nine standalone large language models (LLMs) performing financial-crime checks and when those same models operate within the Castellum.AI Harness. The benchmark measures risk identification accuracy (sanctions, politically exposed persons (PEPs) and adverse media screening), applying an institution’s standard operating procedures...
Duco Maps a Path Towards Agentic Post-Trade Operations
Duco is extending agentic AI deeper into post-trade operations following production trials in which 12 financial institutions recorded an average 76% reduction in time spent on manual reconciliation work. The participants in Duco’s Pacesetters programme, which include BBVA, Blackstone Credit & Insurance and CIBC Mellon, reported reductions of more than 91% in the time required...