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SOLVE Targets Fixed-Income Quote Comparability with Augmented Data Launch

SOLVE, the market data platform provider for fixed-income securities, has expanded its Quotes platform with the launch of Augmented Quotes for municipal bonds and USD-denominated fixed-rate corporate bonds, adding consistently calculated price, yield and spread datapoints to help users compare dealer quotes more effectively. The company said the enhancement will be available not only within...

The End of the “Toughest Regulator” Model? Rethinking Global Surveillance Strategies

For years, global banks have built surveillance programmes around a simple assumption: meet the expectations of the toughest regulator and the rest of the world will fall into line. If a compliance framework could satisfy authorities in the United States, United Kingdom or European Union, the same controls could usually be applied globally with only...

Exegy and STRANDS Target Institutional Workflows for Prediction Market and Digital Asset Data

Exegy and STRANDS have announced a partnership to bring real-time prediction-market, digital-asset and smart-contract data from centralised and decentralised venues into Exegy’s Axiom consolidated feed service, with initial content scheduled for delivery in May 2026. The announcement extends Exegy’s market-data offering into a broader set of emerging asset classes and data types, including prediction markets,...

Corastone Adds Institutional Backers as Private Markets Look to Standardise Data and Workflow Infrastructure

Corastone has added Fidelity Investments, Future Standard and Hamilton Lane as investors in its private-markets platform, expanding the group of institutions backing the company. The announcement follows the platform’s launch in November 2025 and reflects growing industry interest in technology designed to support the increasingly complex data and operational requirements of private-market activity. While the...

Re-Architecting Regulatory Reporting with REGnosys and Open Source

Regulatory reporting has long been defined by highly specialized jurisdictional knowledge, templates, spreadsheets, and a significant part of the compliance budget. Regulators publish new requirements, firms interpret them independently, technology teams build extraction and transformation layers, and operations teams reconcile outputs before pushing formatted datasets to supervisory authorities. RegTech Insight sat down with regulatory reporting...

Leading the Last Human-Only Trading Desk

By Roger Burkhardt, Head of AI and Chief Technology Officer at Broadridge. We are the final generation of trading leaders to manage organizations made up solely of humans. As agentic AI – autonomous systems that can decide, learn, and collaborate – moves from experimentation to enterprise scale, then leadership, governance, and workforce design must fundamentally...

Risks and Opportunities of GenAI, Data Products Under the Microscope: DMS London Preview

Artificial intelligence has made it possible to extract critical data from unstructured sources at speed and at scale. But the headlong rush to adopt the sorts of tools that can mine this rich vein of information is exposing organisations to new risks. Generative AI, whose models are commonly applied to trawling PDFs, emails, financial reports...

Pilot-to-Production Discussion to Open First AI in Data Management Summit NYC

The countdown has begun to the inaugural A-Team Group AI in Data Management Summit NYC. Leading figures from the worlds of data and finance will gather at the event to consider the most pressing matters facing them as their companies embed artificial intelligence into their operations. The Summit builds on the success of 15 years...

Why Data Governance Is Becoming Critical to the Modern Market Data Stack

The rapid expansion of alternative and specialised market datasets is transforming how financial institutions source, analyse and operationalise information. Alongside traditional market data feeds from exchanges and major vendors, firms now consume a growing array of niche datasets supporting quantitative research, AI workflows and investment decision-making. This surge in data consumption is creating new operational...

Modernising for Continuous Markets: Why Infrastructure Must Be Built for Constant Change

Trading infrastructure modernisation is no longer being driven solely by latency reduction or cost efficiency. The stronger message emerging across the industry is that firms are having to prepare for markets that are increasingly global, extended-hour, automated and operationally unforgiving. That was the central takeaway from a panel discussion at A-Team Group’s recent TradingTech Summit...