A-Team Insight Author: Rollings Nicole
The Always-On Exchange: Rebuilding Market Infrastructure for 24/5 and Beyond
US equity markets are moving towards a much longer trading day. Major exchanges are preparing for 23-hour trading, five days a week, while the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently devoted a roundtable to the operational, resilience, clearing and market-structure implications. Overnight trading remains relatively small – accounting for less than 1% of NMS stock...
EvaluateLocate Launches Kilometre-Level Model to Turn Local Economies into Investment Signals
UK geospatial intelligence company EvaluateLocate has launched Geospatial Predictor 2 (GSP-2), a predictive model designed to provide a continuously updated view of economic activity across the UK at one-kilometre resolution, as the company looks to expand its technology into the institutional investment market. The model produces current estimates and forecasts for more than 130 economic,...
Beyond Consumer Sentiment: Can The Real Feel Turn Human Emotion into Alternative Data?
Could the way people feel provide an early indication of changes in consumer behaviour and financial markets? That’s the proposition being explored by The Real Feel, a US-based data company collecting daily information on Americans’ emotional states to develop a new source of alternative data for investment research. Founded by former Reuters executive Lisa Hu,...
Pyth and Exa Explore New Market Data Model for AI Agents
Pyth Network and AI-native search provider Exa are collaborating to explore how AI agents can combine financial market data with web-based research, potentially opening up new approaches to data distribution, licensing and consumption as agentic AI becomes more widely adopted in financial services. The collaboration, currently in an early testing phase, brings together Exa’s search...
Waypoint Launches Wayfinder to Turn Exchange Notifications into Operational Intelligence
Waypoint Trading Solutions has launched Wayfinder, a new service designed to help financial institutions manage the growing volume of operational and market-data changes communicated by exchanges. Built into Waypoint’s existing Data Notification Manager (DNM) platform and developed in partnership with SEAD Software, Wayfinder uses AI to ingest exchange notifications and convert unstructured information into standardised...
The Surveillance Challenge Behind an Increasingly Continuous Market
The shift towards 24/5 equities trading and the rapid growth of prediction markets are presenting new challenges for trade surveillance. With trading activity increasingly spanning multiple venues, instruments and time zones, identifying potential market abuse is becoming more complex, particularly where suspicious behaviour crosses traditional market boundaries. For surveillance technology providers, however, these developments don’t...
As AI Agents Enter Financial Workflows, Do Information Barriers Need to Follow?
The widely reported accidental disclosure of sensitive information at Morgan Stanley last month has brought data loss prevention (DLP) back into focus. The incident, in which an email reportedly exposed details of more than 100 investment banking deals, illustrates the risks that remain despite years of investment in communications monitoring and information barriers. The incident...
Financial Firms Confront the Next Phase of AI-Driven Compliance
Artificial intelligence is moving rapidly from experimentation into day-to-day compliance operations at financial institutions, changing not only how firms monitor communications and investigate potential breaches, but also the governance, data and skills they need to support those processes. That shift was evident during a private executive roundtable hosted by compliance recording specialist Luware at A-Team...
A7 Exposé Highlights FinCrime Expertise Gaps in Product Due Diligence
Reporting by the Financial Times, Wall Street Journal and Reuters has exposed the scale of A7, the Russia-linked sanctions-evasion network that allegedly moved $6.9 billion through global banks using front companies and forged documents. FinCEN’s subsequent findings describe a wider operation whose overseas sub-agents processed more than $17 billion between January 2025 and June 2026,...
Chainlink Launches CCIP 2.0 to Support Blockchain Interoperability, Underpins Swift Ledger Transactions
Chainlink has officially launched CCIP 2.0, marking the next generation of its Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol. The upgraded protocol functions as a neutral interoperability layer designed to allow financial institutions distribute tokenised digital assets across public and private blockchains without needing to rearchitect their existing technology stacks. The launch comes as financial markets players are increasingly...