A-Team Insight Author: sharon
A-Team Group Announces Winners of RegTech Insight Awards Europe 2026
A-Team Group has announced the winners of its RegTech Insight Awards Europe 2026. The awards recognise both established providers and innovative newcomers providing RegTech solutions to capital market participants that significantly improve their ability to respond effectively to evolving and increasingly complex regulatory requirements. This year’s RegTech Insight Awards Europe included categories spanning the regulatory...
Data Reconciliation Hurdles Seen Holding Back Innovation
End-of-day reconciliation processes create data challenges that are constraining buy-side firms from achieving efficiencies from new technologies and AI initiatives. The challenges posed by reliance on long-established reconciliation processes come as the buy-side undergoes a transformation of its operating models to accommodate new data management, investment and settlement strategies. This challenge was highlighted in a...
73 Strings QnA: Solving Post-Investment Data Challenges for Private Markets
Paris-based startup 73 Strings was established to modernise the data and valuation infrastructure for private market participants. Data Management Insight spoke to founder and chief executive Yann Magnan about the company’s operations and its ambitions. Data Management Insight: Hello Yann, when was 73 Strings created and how does it serve financial institutions? Yann Magnan: We...
AI In Financial Services: Where The Real Challenges Are Starting to Emerge
By Joe Norburn, chief executive of TCC and Recordsure. Across financial services, AI is now embedded in day?to?day activities, from fraud detection and onboarding to credit assessment and customer interaction. The UK Treasury Select Committee’s recent inquiry reflects just how widespread that adoption has become, especially among larger institutions. What stands out is not that...
ION Integration with NatGasHub Edges Physical Gas Trading Closer to STP
ION Commodities has announced a deeper integration with NatGasHub.com, a NAESB-certified pipeline scheduling specialist, that brings nominations and scheduling activity directly into ION’s Openlink and Allegro commodity trading and risk management (CTRM) platforms. Traders working a position in ION can now submit pipeline nominations, receive confirmation updates and see scheduled quantities reflected automatically in their...
Why an AI ‘Kill Switch’ Is Harder Than It Sounds
UK MPs have tabled an amendment to the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill that would allow regulations giving the Secretary of State last-resort powers to direct the shutdown of data centres or AI systems used or deployed by a data centre during an AI security or operational emergency. The proposal has not been endorsed by...
Where Tokenisation Actually Delivers Value: The Question the Institutional Market Still Can’t agree On
At a panel session on the convergence of traditional and digital market infrastructure at A-Team Group’s inaugural ExchangeTech Summit in London earlier this month, an audience poll set the framing for the discussion that followed. Asked where their firm sat today on tokenisation and DLT-based market infrastructure, the largest single response from a room of...
Where Generative AI Belongs in the Institutional Data Stack – and Where It Doesn’t
Two and a half years into the generative AI cycle, the working consensus among practitioners deploying AI against unstructured content in capital markets has quietly settled into a layered architecture. Generative models sit at the desktop, research and operational-efficiency layer. The feed, signal and modelling layer that drives systematic alpha still runs on the older,...
The Silo Tax: Why the Buy-Side Trading Desk can No Longer Afford its Own Structure
Take a look at any large buy-side trading operation and the architecture is much the same as it was a decade ago: separate teams for equities, FX, and fixed income, each running its own systems, its own data feeds, and its own operational headcount. The asset classes are different, the rationale runs, so the desks must be...
NICE Earnings Call Puts Reported Actimize Sale Update in Context
In what appears to be its first comment on the planned sale of its Actimize subsidiary, NICE Chief Executive Scott Russell told analysts on the recent Q1 earnings call that the company had been “working with advisers over the past several months” on a process for “non-CX assets”, which he identified as financial crime and...