A-Team Insight Author: peter
The Year in Data: 2025’s Biggest Trends and Developments
The past 12 months saw breakneck developments in how firms applied artificial intelligence. AI began to change from a mere tool to an integral part of capital markets operations. The year also saw data services providers launch multiple products for the growing private markets investment sector. Data Management Insight spoke to leaders in our industry...
ClearToken Launches FCA-Regulated Settlement Service to Modernise Institutional Digital Asset Trading
ClearToken, the digital financial market infrastructure firm, has officially launched CT Settle, a new multi-currency settlement service designed to address the fragmentation, risk, and capital inefficiency currently challenging the institutional digital asset market. The UK-based company announced that the platform is now live, having successfully completed its first settlement cycle involving netted cryptoasset and fiat...
Arcesium Warns of Data Crunch as US Pension Funds Boost Private Market Bets
Blackstone’s launch of a business unit dedicated to the creation of products that give US pension funds access to private markets has raised the data challenge for many established investment managers. Blackstone is seeking to win pension trustees over to an investment space they had traditionally been wary of or have been restricted from entering...
ESMA’s “Data Day” and Regulatory Digitalisation
When ESMA convened its first ‘Data Day’ on 2 December 2025, the agenda title – “Burden reduction in the digitalisation era” – captured a shift that has been building across Europe’s regulatory landscape for several years. While markets been advancing shared data models and machine-executable reporting logic through initiatives such as the Common Domain Model...
Shield Earns Top Gartner Rankings Across All DCGA Use Cases and Makes Deloitte Technology Fast 500TM
Specialist surveillance solution provider Shield closes 2025 with a sharp uptick in industry recognition, underscoring its growing influence in digital communications governance. Gartner has ranked the Tel Aviv–based firm among the top three providers across all six evaluated use cases in its Critical Capabilities for Digital Communications Governance and Archiving (DCGA), while also naming Shield...
Financial Markets Need Explainable Agents, Not Black Boxes
By Cédric Cajet, Product Director, NeoXam. Artificial intelligence (AI) is fast becoming the newest arms race in financial markets. From portfolio construction to risk modelling and client reporting, firms are racing to embed machine learning and generative AI into their operations. Whether it’s faster insights to make better investment decisions or the ability to reduce...
Bank of England Targets ‘Critical Data Gaps’ in New $16 Trillion Private Markets Stress Test
The Bank of England (BoE) has launched its second System-Wide Exploratory Scenario (SWES) exercise, turning its regulatory lens toward the opaque and rapidly expanding private markets ecosystem. Following its initial SWES exercise, which focused on gilts and corporate bond markets, the central bank is now targeting the “critical data gaps” inherent in private equity (PE)...
Europe’s Fixed Income Revolution: How NLPs and Automation are Redefining the Bond Market
For years, the electronification of European fixed-income markets was a slow-burning fuse, lit primarily by the transparency mandates of MiFID II. However, the landscape is now shifting dramatically. No longer just a regulatory compliance exercise, the structural change in Europe’s government bond and credit markets is gaining genuine momentum, driven by the arrival of aggressive...
A-Team Group Announces Winners of its Data Management Insight Awards Europe 2025
A-Team Group has announced the winners of its Data Management Insight Awards Europe 2025, celebrating the latest outstanding contributions from companies recognised for their innovation, expertise and performance. Now in its fourth year, these annual awards acknowledge the leading providers of data management solutions, services and consultancy services to capital markets participants across Europe. Established...
New Issue IQ and Boltzbit Partner to Slash Bond Issuance Data Processing Time by 74%
New Issue IQ, the solutions vendor dedicated to modernising primary bond markets, has announced a strategic partnership with deeptech AI company Boltzbit, to optimise the processing of new bond deal information. The collaboration reportedly delivers a processing-time improvement of approximately 74% by automating workflows that have traditionally been manual and fragmented. Through this integration, New...