A-Team Insight Author: sharon
Taiwan’s Retail Alpha Layer: How CMoney Is Packaging Behavioural Signals for Global Investors
Taiwan’s stock market has climbed to seventh in the world by market capitalisation – up from seventeenth just a few years ago – and now sits at roughly US$3.4 trillion. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) alone is among the ten largest public companies on the planet. Global fund allocations are rising in lockstep with the...
Flow Traders Extends ETF Market-Making Playbook to 24/7 Tokenised Asset Liquidity
Flow Traders, the Amsterdam-headquartered global trading firm, has launched an OTC platform offering 24/7 two-way proprietary liquidity for tokenised money-market funds, equities and commodities. The offering, delivered through the firm’s Digital Asset OTC platform, covers assets including Franklin Templeton’s BENJI tokenised money-market fund and Tether Gold (XAUT), with institutional counterparties able to access liquidity via...
ITDR Won’t Save You if You Can’t Recover – Quest Research
For years, financial institutions have invested heavily in identity security, building layered controls around authentication, access management and threat detection. Yet regulators are increasingly focused on resilience – specifically what happens when those controls fail? The findings from Quest Software’s recent State of ITDR 2026: prevention and recovery research point to a clear conclusion: while...
Industry Cautiously Backs EU Market Reform Ambitions, But Warns Execution Risks Loom Large
A panel at A-Team’s Group’s TradingTech Summit London 2026 offered a broadly supportive but clear-eyed assessment of the EU’s Savings and Investment Union (SIU) package, welcoming the shift toward a competitiveness agenda but warning the reforms risk falling short without bolder action on post-trade interoperability, data quality and regulatory simplification. The session, “The Evolution of...
Embrace the Threat: How Software Firms Can Head Off ‘SaaS-pocalypse’
Recent stock market losses among software providers have prompted some analysts to predict a coming “SaaS-pocalypse” as software companies are threatened by artificial intelligence that can write code and build software quickly and cheaply. The doomsayers may be premature, however. While AI undoubtedly has the ability to supplant some of those firms, it also presents...
When AI Meets SEC Filings: Where LLMs Deliver, Where They Don’t, and Why the Plumbing Matters
Can LLMs reliably do what financial analysts do? Compare peers, track firms over time, and spot what’s changed? A panel at the recent A-Team Group/Eagle Alpha Alternative Data Conference New York explored the question, and new research from Goldman Sachs and Yale suggests the answer is more nuanced than the industry assumes. The panel session...
From Pilots to Production: Capital Markets Firms Confront the Real Challenge of Scaling AI in Trading Workflows
Across capital markets, AI pilots are proliferating – on trading desks, in compliance functions, within data teams. The proof-of-concept phase has, for many firms, delivered enough evidence of value to settle the strategic debate. What remains stubbornly unresolved is the operational question: how to translate a growing patchwork of departmental experiments into scalable, production-grade capability....
Axiory.ai Launches AI Agent Trading Platform Built on Model Context Protocol
Axiory.ai, a platform developed by the global brokerage Axiory in partnership with Purple Technology, has launched an infrastructure layer designed to allow AI agents to access and trade across multi-asset CFD markets through a single standardised environment. The platform is built on Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP), the open standard for connecting AI systems to...
S&P Global Bets on Agent-Native Architecture as Capital IQ Pro Consolidation Accelerates
S&P Global’s March announcement of enhancements to its Capital IQ Pro platform covers a lot of ground: new datasets across fixed income, biopharma and private markets, the integration of two AI acquisitions, and expanded generative AI capabilities. Taken individually, each is a solid incremental update. But taken together, they point to something more structurally significant,...
Blackwired’s ThirdWatch: Powering Operational Resilience with Cyber Intelligence
For years, financial institutions have invested heavily in cyber defences designed to protect their own perimeters. Firewalls hardened, endpoints secured, and internal monitoring intensified. But many of the most disruptive recent incidents have propagated through third-party providers, software supply chains, or shared infrastructure. They are aimed at the firms banks depend on. The exploitation of...