A-Team Insight Author: sharon
ESMA’s Data Quality Report Signals a Higher Bar for Regulatory Reporting Data
By Michele Hillery, Managing Director, Head of Repository & Derivatives Services at The Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC). Regulators across jurisdictions are leveraging trade reporting data as a supervisory resource, using it to monitor risk, assess market activity and inform policy and oversight decisions. As this use becomes more sophisticated, firms face an even...
The Performance Gap: How Data and Automation Are Separating Fixed Income Winners and Laggards
By Eugene Grinberg, Co-Founder and CEO, SOLVE. For decades, fixed-income markets rewarded opacity. Firms with the right relationships, proprietary data, or pricing advantages could generate outsized returns on a small number of well-timed trades. That model is breaking down. Fee compression, regulatory transparency requirements, and an explosion in available data have changed the basis of...
CME Group to Launch Treasury Link, Connecting BrokerTec Cash and CBOT Futures Ahead of Clearing Mandate
CME Group has announced Treasury Link, a service enabling spread trading between CBOT Treasury futures and BrokerTec cash Treasuries on CME Globex. The functionality allows participants to transact the differential between the two markets through a single submission, removing legging risk and enabling exposure to be managed via a single spread. It is expected to...
FlexTrade Partners with Portx to Place Portfolio Construction Inside the OEMS
Portfolio construction has historically sat upstream of the trading desk, in the portfolio manager’s own environment. And more often than the industry likes to admit, in a spreadsheet. FlexTrade, the multi-asset execution and order management systems vendor, has integrated the construction, optimisation and risk analytics of Portx, the London-based portfolio construction and analytics provider, into...
Accelerated Settlement Needs More Than Speed. It Needs a Common Language.
By Richard Baker, Founder and CEO, Tokenovate. The October 2027 transition date is approaching quickly, and firms across the market are reviewing operational processes, technology infrastructure and post-trade workflows. Significant progress has been made since the transition was announced, reflecting a broad recognition that shorter settlement cycles can reduce counterparty exposure and improve market efficiency....
DTCC Declares That Tokenisation Has Become a Reality as it Conducts First Production Demos of its ComposerX Platform
The Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC) today – 15th July, 2026 – declared that tokenisation has “become a reality” as it joined with partners to conduct a set of production demonstrations of its DTC Tokenization Service, which it plans to officially launch this October. A number of production tokenisation events were showcased, including: Conversion...
Broadridge Broadens DLR Collateral Mobility Processing Beyond Repos
Building on the continued success of its tokenisation initiatives in the repo space, Broadridge Financial Solutions is beginning to leverage its Distributed Ledger Repo (DLR) platform to support other liquid assets and to meet general marketplace demand for collateral mobility. This past June, DLR processed an average of $357 billion in daily repo transactions, with...
Duco Agentic Maturity for Reconciliation Benchmark Offers AI Adoption Map
Financial services companies and institutions are moving in large numbers along the road to agentic artificial intelligence maturity of their reconciliation processes. But many are caught in the no-man’s land between pilot and production as they grapple with the realities of operationalising models and agents. An inability to adequately assess AI before implementation, difficulties in...
In Strategically Important Collaboration, Swift and 17 Banks to Pilot Tokenised Deposit Transactions
Swift has announced that its blockchain-based ledger is ready for early adopter financial institutions to support 24/7 cross-border payments via interoperable tokenised deposits. The pilot represents the first step in what might unfold as the payment network’s response to the emerging threat posed by stablecoins. In all, 17 banks from six continents are preparing to...
Quantifying the Business Value of Data Observability: Webinar Key Takeaways
Data observability tools help remediation processes keep quality in check and pipelines healthy as data flows at increasing volumes to end users. A-Team Group’s most recent webinar, The ROI of Data Trust: Quantifying the Business Value of Data Observability, examined the best practices, pain points and solutions for ensuring organisations derive the greatest value from...