A-Team Insight Author: peter
LMAX Group and Ripple Partner to Embed Stablecoins at the Core of Institutional Cross-Asset Trading
LMAX Group has entered into a multi-year strategic partnership with Ripple, integrating Ripple’s USD-backed stablecoin, Ripple USD (RLUSD), as a core collateral asset across its institutional trading infrastructure. Under the agreement, RLUSD will be embedded across margining, collateralisation, custody and settlement workflows, supporting trading activity across spot crypto, perpetual futures and CFDs. Ripple will also...
Market Data Distribution Parity: Redefining Fairness
By Scott Schweitzer, Independent Consultant, LDA Technologies. Electronic exchanges play a vital role in the financial industry, providing a robust and trusted forum for trading and execution without issue. But even so, the technology available to exchanges has traditionally led to discrepancies in data distribution, from microseconds to nanoseconds, which can be critical for latency-sensitive...
NYSE Unveils Tokenised Securities Platform, Putting 24/7 Blockchain Trading Within Reach
The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), a unit of Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (ICE), has launched the development of a blockchain-enabled tokenised securities platform designed to support continuous trading and on-chain settlement of U.S. listed equities and exchange-traded funds (ETFs). The initiative is subject to regulatory approval and forms a central pillar of ICE’s broader strategy...
Chainlink Brings 24/5 U.S. Equities Data Onchain, Targeting Always-On Equity Markets
Chainlink, the blockchain technology company, has launched 24/5 U.S. Equities Streams, a new market-data service designed to support continuous, onchain trading of U.S. stocks and ETFs beyond standard market hours. The service provides sub-second equity pricing across regular, pre-market, post-market and overnight sessions, addressing a longstanding structural mismatch between always-on blockchain-based markets and time-bound U.S....
TRG Screen Launches AI Assist to Advance Reference Data Cost Management
Market data spend and usage management software provider TRG Screen has launched an artificial intelligence-powered capability to help financial institutions better manage spiralling data costs. The conversational AI interface sits on top of TRG Screen’s established Xmon platform, allowing users to interact with their own programme data using natural language. Instead of digging through technical reports, users can ask the system direct questions about cost optimisation opportunities and...
Data Automator Xceptor Offers Platform Ready-Made for AI
Dan Reid is not surprised that Xceptor, the data automation giant he formed two decades ago, finds itself at the vanguard of a change in the way financial institutions regard and use documents. The rapid and accurate parsing of information from paper- and PDF-based reports has been made possible thanks to recent developments in artificial intelligence. The volume...
Why AI is Making Data Ownership a Business Imperative
By Edgar Randall, UK&I Managing Director, Dun & Bradstreet. As AI becomes the engine of modern business, the question of verifiable data ownership is no longer theoretical, it’s central to how organisations build trust in AI-driven decisions. The rise of AI means models depend entirely on the quality and integrity of the data they consume....
Why the ICE Binary Order Entry API is a Structural Shift, Not Just a Faster Interface
By Harry Palmer, Market Operations, OnixS. The introduction of the ICE Binary Order Entry API is easy to misinterpret as a routine performance upgrade. Binary interfaces are often framed narrowly, as a way to reduce order submission latency or to serve the fastest trading firms. In this case, that reading misses the point. What Intercontinental...
Inside the Uneven Geography of AML Enforcement Outcomes in 2025 – Fenergo Analysis
Fenergo’s latest Global enforcement analysis shows total AML, KYC, sanctions and customer due diligence penalties declining to $3.8 billion in 2025, down from $4.6 billion in 2024 and $6.6 billion in 2023, marking a second consecutive year of decline. Beneath that headline, regional outcomes moved in sharply different directions. North American fines fell by 58%,...
Funding Regulatory Oversight: 2026 Budgets for US Supervisors
On January 11, 2026, the House Appropriations Committee released conferenced versions of two major fiscal year 2026 spending measures: the Financial Services and General Government (FSGG) bill and the National Security, Department of State, and Related Programs (NSRP) bill. While appropriations announcements rarely attract sustained market attention, these packages carry direct implications for how financial...