A-Team Insight Author: sharon
Adaptive and Rapid Addition Partner to Enhance Trading Connectivity
Adaptive, the custom trading technology solutions provider, has partnered with Rapid Addition, the financial messaging solutions vendor. The collaboration is designed to strengthen Adaptive’s capabilities in delivering advanced FIX solutions to capital markets clients with demanding requirements for high-performance counterparty connectivity and order management workflows. The partnership is facilitated by Rapid Addition’s use of Aeron,...
19 RegTech Insights for 2025 from our RegTech Summits
The RegTech Summits in London and New York delivered a deep dive into AI-driven compliance, accelerated settlement, and evolving regulatory frameworks among other key RegTech topics, with industry leaders and regulators weighing in on the biggest challenges ahead. From the implementation of accelerated settlement cycles across global markets to the rise of generative AI (GenAI)...
DG FISMA Rejects the ESAs’ Draft RTS for DORA
Less than one week after the Digital Operations Resilience Act (DORA) came into full force in the EU, the Directorate-General for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union (DG FISMA) issued a letter to the Chair of the Joint Committee of the European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) rejecting the draft regulatory technical standards (RTS) submitted...
Rethinking Market Data: From Lock-In to Independence
For decades, many capital markets firms have relied on legacy market data platforms that were built before the internet and have since become increasingly data vendor specific and costly to maintain. Some of these platforms, while functional, are no longer actively developed in meaningful ways, creating significant risks as expertise fades and costs spiral out...
Accelex Says its AI Agent Can Tame The ‘Nastiest’ Corner of Data Management
Unstructured data is the bugbear of private market data managers, but one of the latest entrant to the space claims to have a solution that can tame the “nastiest” part of data retrieval – private market fund quarterly reports. Accelex is a London-based artificial intelligence (AI) focussed FinTech that has launched a platform that can prise market-relevant...
DTCC Unveils ComposerX to Streamline Digital Asset Adoption
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has introduced ComposerX, a comprehensive suite of platforms aimed at simplifying token creation and settlement, with the goal of accelerating digital asset adoption across the financial sector. ComposerX provides an end-to-end framework for managing digital assets throughout their lifecycle, encompassing issuance, distribution, servicing, and reporting. The platform offers...
Zema Global Chief Girds for Soaring Demand for Energy Data
Since its acquisition of Morningstar’s commodity information business late last year, energy industry intelligence provider Zema Global has become an important data feed for financial institutions that invest in the net-zero transition and to those trading in renewables, biofuels and fossil fuels. The transaction was a prescient one. While the Colorado, US-headquartered company has been...
“No WhatsApp Ban” – FCA’s Transition from Prescriptive Rulemaking to Outcome-Focused Regulation
There was a flurry of headlines recently following statements from Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) Chief Executive Nikhil Rathi on a podcast, where he laid out the FCA’s new five-year strategy and its mandate for growth. In response to a direct question about regulating encrypted messaging apps and WhatsApp specifically, Mr. Rathi stated that they’re not...
Understanding Reticence for AI in Compliance: Interview with Strategic Risk Advisor, Jon Elvin
The Saifr sponsored whitepaper—From Caution to Action: How Advisory Firms are Integrating AI in Compliance—published in November, explored a number of key themes surrounding the adoption of generative AI (GenAI) enabled technologies for compliance by advisors and wealth management companies. We recently covered the theme of in-house versus vendor supplied solutions in an interview with...
ION Integrates CTRM Solutions with ION LookOut, Boosting Compliance Capabilities in the Energy Sector
ION Commodities has integrated its Commodity Trading and Risk Management (CTRM) solutions with its regulatory reporting and trade surveillance platform, ION LookOut, to enhance compliance capabilities for energy sector firms navigating increasingly complex global regulatory requirements. With the energy industry facing mounting challenges in navigating evolving regulations – including EMIR, SFTR, REMIT, and the Dodd-Frank...