A-Team Insight Author: Rollings Nicole
Bloomberg Transforms Real-Time News into Structured Data for Systematic Workflows
Bloomberg has enhanced its Real-Time News Feeds with new customisable, machine-readable delivery options designed for direct integration into automated trading and risk systems. While framed as a product expansion, the development reflects a broader structural shift: narrative news is increasingly being positioned as a structured, real-time data asset within systematic investment architectures. The new feeds...
Challenging the Status Quo: Re-imagining the Trading Desk for 2026 and Beyond
The opening session of A-Team Group’s recent TradingTech Summit Europe set a pragmatic tone for the discussions that followed. In a fireside chat between Stuart Lawrence, Head of EMEA Equity Trading at UBS Asset Management, and Monika Fernando, Product Leader, FinTech & Digital Platforms and former Head of Global FI Client Data & Analytics at...
Personal Investment Pain Point Sparks Idea for Fast-Growing Wealth Tech Firm Goodfin
Anna Joo Fee had a problem. The Wall Street lawyer was so busy in her job that managing her wealth adequately was difficult. Her options were limited, however. Institutions wanted the capital that high earners could offer, but were not best placed to serve the market. And she wasn’t confident in her own knowledge to...
When 1% Breaks the Fund: The Sanctions Contagion Facing ETF Issuers
Roy Kirby, Head of Core Products at SIX Group, has spent the past four years watching sanctions transform from episodic geopolitical tools into a structural feature of market risk. In sharing insights with RegTech Insight, he sets out how the acceleration and layering of sanctions since 2022 are reshaping compliance obligations for ETF issuers and,...
Scaling the Unstructured: 10 Leaders in Intelligent Data Processing
Huge swaths of critical financial information, from private credit agreements and ESG disclosures to complex tax documentation, is locked in unstructured formats such as digital documents and PDFs. The manual bottleneck this creates for the middle and back office eats into valuable resources. A key means to achieving this, Intelligent Data Processing (IDP), represent a...
Introducing Market & Alt Data Insight: Advancing the Industrialisation of Data in Financial Markets
Financial markets are entering a new phase in the evolution of data. Data has always underpinned trading and investment workflows. What has changed is the scale, diversity and strategic management of that data across the enterprise. Traditional market data, alternative signals, derived datasets and AI-generated features now sit on the same operational continuum. The strategic...
Bloomberg and Kaiko Move to Extend Licensed Market Data into Tokenised Environments
Bloomberg and Kaiko have announced a collaboration aimed at enabling Bloomberg’s reference and pricing data to be accessed within blockchain-based tokenised market infrastructures. The initial focus is on tokenised U.S. Treasuries and repo use cases on the Canton Network. Under the arrangement, Bloomberg Data License content will be made available on-chain through Kaiko’s infrastructure, with...
Bloomberg and Kaiko Target On-Chain Data Integration for Tokenised Institutional Markets
Bloomberg and Kaiko have announced a collaboration to provide access to Bloomberg’s reference and pricing data within blockchain-based tokenised market environments. The initiative will initially support tokenised U.S. Treasuries and repo use cases on the Canton Network. Bloomberg Data License content will be delivered on-chain through Kaiko’s infrastructure, with access governed by existing licensing and...
TXSE Selects Exegy FPGA Technology for Market Data Infrastructure
The Texas Stock Exchange (TXSE) has selected Exegy to provide FPGA-based market data feed handlers as part of its launch infrastructure. TXSE is positioning itself as the first fully integrated U.S. equities exchange built from scratch in more than 25 years. As part of that ground-up approach, the venue has opted to deploy FPGA technology...
FCA Stablecoin Cohort Commences Live Sandbox Testing
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has selected Monee Financial Technologies, ReStabilise, Revolut and VVTX to participate in a new stablecoins cohort within its Regulatory Sandbox, with testing due to begin in Q1 2026. On the FCA’s framing, the cohort is designed to test how stablecoin services operate against proposed UK rules in a controlled environment,...