A-Team Insight Author: peter
Celebrating Excellence at the TradingTech Insight Awards Europe 2026
The pace of change across trading technology shows no sign of slowing. As markets become more complex, data-intensive and performance-driven, firms are rethinking how infrastructure, analytics and execution workflows interconnect across the trading lifecycle. Against this backdrop, the TradingTech Insight Awards Europe 2026 brought the industry together to recognise the solution providers delivering measurable impact...
Terminus Capital Partners Takes Majority Stake in Eventus
Terminus Capital Partners has made a majority investment in Eventus, the trade surveillance software provider, in a transaction designed to support the firm’s continued product development and global expansion. Financial terms were not disclosed. Under the agreement, Terminus will back increased investment in product innovation and platform capabilities, expansion of global commercial and support operations,...
Beyond Calculation: How DORA Is Redefining NAV Resilience for Fund Managers
Under the EU’s Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA), NAV has been recast as a resilience capability. That shift framed a recent webinar hosted by A-Team Group’s RegTech Insight and sponsored by FundGuard, which brought together a panel of senior experts to examine what “recoverable NAV” now means in practice. NAV Resilience focus is not about...
STS Digital Secures $30m Strategic Investment to Scale Institutional Crypto Options Platform
STS Digital, the digital-asset derivatives trading firm and market access provider, has closed a $30 million strategic funding round led by CMT Digital, with participation from Payward (the financial infrastructure platform behind cryptocurrency exchange Kraken), Strobe Ventures, Arrington Capital, F-Prime (Fidelity) and BitRock Capital, as the firm looks to accelerate the growth of its crypto...
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...
What “Good” Mobile App Data Looks Like in an Institutional Context
Mobile app data has quietly become a core measurement layer for understanding consumer behaviour, competitive dynamics and business performance across a wide range of sectors, from streaming and retail to travel, fintech and gaming. What was once treated as a niche alternative signal is now routinely used to inform investment decisions, company analysis and thematic...
The Quest for Better Data Management Through Trusted Data Products
Quest Software has built its reputation on protecting digital identities, assisting companies’ data migrations within the Microsoft ecosystem. But the Austin, Texas-based firm also has a data management business that has been addressing both the database and metadata management ecosystems. As artificial intelligence begins to take a dominant role in data management and among financial...
WFE Signals Extended Trading Hours Feasible, but Warns Settlement Systems Must Catch Up
The World Federation of Exchanges (WFE) has published new research concluding that extended trading hours, including near round-the-clock markets, are technologically feasible, but their long-term sustainability depends on coordinated reform across clearing, settlement and payment infrastructure. In Extending Exchange Trading Hours, the WFE examines proposals from major U.S. exchanges to expand equity trading toward 22-...
Beyond the Pilot: Building Infrastructure for the Agentic Era
By David Sewell, Chief Technology Officer, Synechron. The fraud transaction takes milliseconds to clear. In that window, an agentic system has already queried three databases, cross-referenced two watchlists, and pinged the identity verification layer. It works – in the demo. Then the auditor asks where the decision log is, and nobody can find it, because...
NeoXam Sets Sights on Narrowing Private Data Gap Between GPs and LPs
As demand for private markets data accelerates, asset allocators are finding themselves having to play digital catch up with their investor counterparts. General partners (GPs), who manage private funds and allocate capital invested by limited partners (LPs) have found themselves technologically behind the curve as institutional investors plough into the once-niche markets. But because LPs are...