A-Team Insight Author: peter
Sage Capital Management Positions Integrated Trading Platform as Operating System for Institutional Digital Assets
Sage Capital Management has expanded its institutional digital-asset offering with the launch of a private banking service, positioning the move as part of a broader, platform-centric strategy to deliver integrated financial infrastructure for digital assets. At the centre of the proposition is the Sage platform, which the firm describes as a unified operating system designed...
Why Do We Disagree? How AI Solves One of Post-Trade’s Most Persistent Challenges
By Carl Thornberg, head of optimisation and analytics technology, OSTTRA. In post-trade operations, most problems are not caused by outright errors, they are caused by ambiguity. Trades that look different but are not wrong. Valuations that diverge for valid reasons. Numbers that do not line up, even though nothing has actually gone awry. At scale,...
Glimpse Markets Partners with Boltzbit to Embed Live-learning AI into Fixed Income Workflows
Glimpse Markets, the buy-side data sharing network focused on the cash bond markets, has partnered with Boltzbit, the deeptech AI company, to embed live-learning, agent-based AI directly into its buy-side bond data-sharing platform, as part of a multi-phase integration programme set to begin in early 2026. Rather than positioning AI as a downstream analytics layer,...
HPR Launches Maxbot Hardware Gateway as Market Access and Risk Controls Hit Software Limits
HPR, the high-performance infrastructure provider, has launched Maxbot, a fully hardware-based market access gateway and pre-trade risk solution, reflecting what the firm describes as a structural shift in how latency-sensitive trading infrastructure is being built and governed. Maxbot combines market access and pre-trade risk enforcement into a single hardware appliance, delivering a complete wire-to-wire hardware...
When Margin Moves Upstream: How TT is Reworking Trading Decisions After the OpenGamma Deal
More than a month after completing its acquisition of OpenGamma, Trading Technologies is beginning to articulate how the deal is intended to change the way firms think about margin, capital efficiency, and trading decision-making. Rather than positioning margin as a downstream risk or treasury concern, TT is now framing capital efficiency as a front-office variable...
Snowflake Retools Cortex to Offer FSI Tailored AI Capabilities
Snowflake’s Cortex AI features has been enriched to provide financial services companies with agentic artificial intelligence capabilities honed to their specific needs, the first of a planned suite of editions focused on individual industries. Cortex AI for Financial Services will feature all the functionality of the platform’s Cortex features but will offer clients large language models that...
New Bloomberg US BDC Index Offers Insight into Private Credit
Bloomberg has launched a new index that brightens the light that is bringing transparency to often opaque private markets, this time with a focus on one of the sector’s more specialised corners. The New York-based data behemoth’s US BDC Aggregate Eligible Index (Ticker: BDCUSAGG) gives investors a unique view into how bonds issued by the...
The Latest Changes to the EU AI Act – What You Need to Know
By Nik Kairinos, CEO and Co-Founder of RAIDS AI. AI’s influence continues to grow, reaching across sectors and across borders. In financial services, it’s fundamentally changing how firms operate, shifting towards more precise, efficient, and innovative ways of working. At a foundational level, it provides the ability to analyse large volumes of data quickly and...
TS Imagine Data Highlights Accelerating Electronification of Fixed Income Trading
New data from TS Imagine points to a sharp acceleration in the electronification of fixed income markets, with growing adoption of electronic execution protocols, increased portfolio trading activity, and broader engagement across buy-side workflows. According to year-over-year figures from the firm’s TradeSmart fixed income execution management system, overall fixed income trading volumes rose 44 percent...
World Federation of Exchanges Urges Regulators to Balance Quantum Risk with Near-Term Cyber and AI Threats
The World Federation of Exchanges (WFE) has called on regulators to balance long-term quantum computing risks against more immediate operational challenges in the financial sector. The association’s press release highlights a substantial gap between regulatory expectations for early preparation and the industry’s current prioritisation of nearer-term threats such as generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) and cyber...