A-Team Insight Author: Rollings Nicole
Nasdaq Continues to Build Out Always-On Market Infrastructure with LeveL Markets Acquisition
Nasdaq has agreed to acquire LeveL Markets, operator of one of the largest alternative trading systems (ATSs) for US equities, as part of a broader strategy to build infrastructure for increasingly continuous markets, spanning traditional exchanges, alternative liquidity venues and emerging digital and tokenised assets. The acquisition, announced this week, will bring LeveL’s institutional execution...
Kadoa and the New Economics of Web Data
For investment firms seeking an informational edge, the web represents an extraordinarily rich source of potential data. Product inventories and pricing, corporate activity, technology adoption, infrastructure development and countless other indicators can all provide insights that may not be available through conventional market and financial data sources. Extracting that information reliably, however, has traditionally required...
AI is Redrawing “Build vs. Buy” for Trading Desk Models
Rohan Douglas, CEO of Quantifi Solutions. As technology, and AI in particular, continues to evolve and reshape the finance industry, trading desks are reconsidering how they source, maintain and extend their risk, pricing and analytics model libraries. Historically, this has often been framed as a build-versus-buy decision. Do you develop and maintain your own pricing...
Token Tech: ERC Tokens and Why They Important to the Financial Markets
When a tokenisation platform creates a token to represent a real-world asset (RWA) it is more than likely that the token will be created to conform with an ERC standard. ERC stands for Ethereum Request for Comment. It is a formal design and umbrella technical standard used by developers to create smart contracts, tokens, wallets...
Deepening Digital Assets into “TradFi” Depends on Infrastructure Integration
By Marco Kessler, Head Product & Business Development, Digital Assets, SIX Digital assets no longer sit as a separate asset class outside of capital markets. They have become a fully integrated part of “TradFi”. Over the past few years, the technologies that underpin crypto are now being integrated with the core financial plumbing of capital markets.??...
Circle Names Founding Validators for Arc Blockchain, Due 16th September
Stablecoin Issuer Circle has set 16th September as the launch date for its public Arc blockchain, and has named a set of blue chip digital assets players to be the first to run validators to secure the network. In addition to Circle itself, BlackRock, DTCC, Galaxy Digital, Global Payments, ICE, Mastercard, MoneyGram, SBI Group, Standard...
S&P Global QnA: Adaptive Retrieval Smooths Data Access and Use
S&P Global Market Intelligence launched Adaptive Retrieval last month, promising to give clients greater flexibility in accessing and using the ratings giant’s data via their large language models (LLMs) and agents. Complementing S&P Global’s existing Deterministic Retrieval tool, which is built on the Kensho LLM-ready API, the latest innovation enables users to query and make...
How AI is Reshaping the Data Office in Capital Markets: Webinar Review
A clear split has emerged between the sell-side and the buy-side in their approaches to enterprise data strategy, with banks adopting a more defensive posture and asset and wealth managers more aggressive in their pursuit of modern capabilities. The divergence was highlighted in a recent A-Team Research and Element 22 webinar, entitled “The Data Office...
AI is Reshaping the Build-Vs-Buy Tech and Data Question for Asset Managers
The traditional data technology build-vs-buy decision facing asset managers has been blurred by artificial intelligence. Not only has the technology made the “build” option faster to achieve and more affordable, it has also reframed the notion of where exactly the building happens. At the same time, the risks associated with AI’s inclusion in the equation...
AI May Well Be a Big Accelerator, But Let’s Not Forget the Destination
By Chris Livesey, Chief Executive of AutoRek Everyone’s racing to add AI to everything, but are we clear on the finishing line? Across the financial services software landscape, vendors and end-user customers are chasing a new goal: how fast they can AI-ify or agentify everything that moves to claim unique differentiation and plant a flag for their brand as a...