A-Team Insight Author: sharon
Reconciliation No Longer Has Time On Its Side as T+1 Approaches
By John Bevil, senior product manager at Xceptor. Europe’s capital markets firms are entering the most consequential phase of T+1 preparation. From 11 October 2027, trades executed in European markets are expected to settle one business day after trade date, reducing the settlement cycle from T+2 to T+1. More than 4 trillion euros of securities...
Report Once – ESMA’s Simplification Plan for Regulatory Reporting
ESMA has turned the long-running industry case for “report once” transaction reporting into a staged policy programme for rebuilding EU reporting around reusable, controlled transaction data. Its Final Report On the Call for Evidence recommends a single integrated framework across the Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation (MiFIR), European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR) and Securities Financing...
S&P Global Moves Kensho to the Front of Market Intelligence in Agentic Reorganisation
S&P Global has restructured its Market Intelligence division into two verticals, elevating Kensho from an embedded AI engine to a named, client-facing layer and confirming the direction the business set out earlier this year. The reorganisation, announced on 6 July, folds data delivery, platform capabilities and client engagement into a single AI-led structure and moves...
BMLL and Exponential Decode US Equity Flow from the Order Book
BMLL and Exponential Technology have partnered to launch XTech US Equity Flow, a product that decodes full-depth US equity order-book data into net buying and selling attributed by investor type. Announced on 2 July, it breaks flow down into high-frequency, fund and retail activity across US equity venues, turning raw microstructure data into something the...
AI in Finance Requires Developing the Right Operational Mindset
By Carl Thornberg, Head of Optimisation and Analytics Technology at OSTTRA. Integrating AI into the finance sector requires navigating a robust regulatory landscape designed to ensure stability and security, a process that demands a deliberate and meticulous approach to technology adoption. To build confidence for experimentation with this not-yet-fully-understood technology, essential safety nets must be...
Is Speed No Longer the Hard Part in Trading Infrastructure?
A panel of high-performance trading infrastructure architects, convened at A-Team Group’s recent TradingTech Summit New York to discuss the blueprint for speed, spent remarkably little of its time talking about speed. The tick-to-trade race still runs, and firms still shave nanoseconds where a strategy justifies it, but raw latency is the part this end of...
Six RegTech Providers Tackling Sanctioned Securities and Financial-Instrument Screening
Sanctions screening in capital markets and treasury extends beyond conventional checks on payments, people and legal entities. Firms need to identify exposure inside securities, issuers, funds (including ETFs), indices, structured products, derivatives and custody positions. They also need to track changes as sanctions regimes, ownership structures and instrument composition shift. That creates a different control...
When Market Data’s Cloud Migration Is Over, What’s Left Behind?
The firms furthest along with cloud have stopped arguing about whether market data belongs there. What occupies them now are the questions that outlasted the migration: where the on-premises boundary finally holds, what turns out to cost money, and whether entitlement frameworks built for headcount can survive machines that consume data at machine speed. Getting...
A-Team Group Announces Capital Markets Technology APAC Awards 2026 Winners and Launches ‘State of the Market’ Report
A-Team Group today announced the highly anticipated winners of the Capital Markets Technology APAC Awards 2026. These prestigious awards celebrate the most innovative solution providers and financial institutions that are reshaping the capital markets technology landscape across the dynamic Asia Pacific region. In conjunction with the awards, A-Team Group has also launched the “State of...
Drive to Scale AI Makes Trust the Holy Grail of Data Managers: Webinar Preview
The race to implement artificial intelligence at scale within financial institutions’ technology stacks has made it imperative that they ensure their data foundations are solid. Without trusted data, AI is a potential minefield of erroneous outputs, hallucinated responses and inaccurate analyses. This compromises leaders’ ability to make well-informed decisions and poses the risk they’ll make...