A-Team Insight Author: Rollings Nicole
Liquidnet Targets Bilateral Trading’s “New Normal” with Buy-Side Solution
Liquidnet, the agency execution specialist, has launched a new solution aimed at providing European buy-side traders with more effective access to bilateral liquidity. The move comes as bilateral trading has grown to become a significant component of the European equity market, accounting for close to 50% of total market volumes, according to a recent report...
Options Targets AI Workloads with Icelandic Data Centre Expansion
Capital markets infrastructure provider Options Technology has announced a significant expansion of its private cloud infrastructure with a new AI-optimised data centre in Iceland. The move is a direct response to the escalating demand from financial firms for high-density computing power, driven by the rapid adoption of AI for trading strategies, risk management, and data...
Navigating the Future of Regulatory Reporting: Insights from Industry Leaders
The landscape of regulatory reporting in capital markets is in constant flux, shaped by technological change, evolving compliance demands, and industry cost pressures. A recent webinar, Best Approaches for Trade and Transaction Reporting, hosted by A-Team Group in September 2025 and sponsored by the Derivatives Service Bureau, brought together senior RegTech executives and compliance practitioners...
FCA AI Update 2025: How the Regulator is Embedding AI Oversight into UK Financial Rules
The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has now issued its AI Update (2025), a significant step in its regulatory journey. It builds on the 2022 Discussion Paper on AI and Machine Learning (DP22/4), which set out early questions about AI’s transformative potential and the risks it introduces. Three years on, the FCA’s position has sharpened:...
Audit-Ready AI: How Fenergo Is Redefining Financial Crime Compliance
Regulators are losing patience. In the first half of 2025, global financial institutions were hit with fines totalling $1.23 billion, a 417% increase on the same period the year before. Sanctions failures alone surged from $3.7 million in H1 2024 to $228.8 million this year, underscoring just how closely watchdogs are monitoring AML, KYC and...
Growing Modern Data Platforms Adoption Seen as Benefits Become Apparent: Webinar Review
Take-up of modern data platforms (MDPs) is expected to accelerate in the next few years as financial institutions realise the greater agility, scalability and deeper insights offered by the innovation. Organisations that have so far been relatively slow to adopt the streamlined platforms – because they have been unsure of the technologies’ benefits – will...
BMLL Frees Quants from Data Prep with New Trades Plus Offering
Data and analytics provider BMLL has launched Trades Plus, a new equities dataset designed to eliminate the complex and time-consuming process of combining trade and quote data, a significant and resource-intensive challenge for quantitative analysts and trading firms. The new offering, developed in direct response to requests from its Client Product Advisory Board (CPAB), provides...
LSEG Launches REDI on Workspace in Strategic Move to Unify Buy-Side Execution
LSEG Data & Analytics has launched REDI on Workspace, a significant step in its strategy to create a unified, end-to-end ecosystem for the buy-side. The new offering embeds the execution management capabilities of its REDI platform directly into LSEG Workspace, its flagship data and analytics platform. The move is the culmination of a multi-year strategy...
S&P Builds Private Markets-Trained AI Document Search Tool for iLevel Platform
S&P Global Market Intelligence has expanded its private markets data and technology platform iLevel with the addition of AI Document Search, a module that is built on large language models (LLMs) trained specifically to aid participants in the fast-growing alternative assets sector. The new tool enables general partners (GPs), who manage funds on behalf of...
API-Driven and Template-Free: The Rise of Granular Data Reporting
For decades, regulatory reporting has been defined by templates: thousands of fields to be completed and resubmitted every time a rule or taxonomy changed. That world is now shifting. Regulators in multiple jurisdictions are adopting Granular Data Reporting (GDR) – a model where firms submit transaction- or element-level data once, and supervisors generate the necessary...