A-Team Insight Author: sharon
Iress Sells QuantHouse to BAHA in Strategic Refocus
Iress has agreed to sell its European market data business QuantHouse to Vienna-based BAHA Tech Holding AG for €17.5 million, marking the latest move in the company’s strategy to streamline operations around its core Wealth and Trading & Market Data offerings. Founded in 2005, QuantHouse built its reputation as a pioneer in low-latency market data...
IOSCO 2025 Thematic Review puts Regulators on Notice
The International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) released a key thematic review in February 2025. The report examines how Market Authorities (MAs) – supervisory authorities/regulators, trading venues and self-regulatory organizations (SROs) – around the world have implemented surveillance recommendations first established in 2013. This latest review specifically addresses regulators’ ability to oversee trading activities across...
Clearwater Looking to Bridge Front-to-Back Office Tech Gaps with Acquisitions
It’s difficult for data and technology companies to fully service financial institutions’ front-to-back operations when behemoth providers are offering closely integrated capabilities at scale already. Clearwater Analytics, however, has a strategy that it believes will work not by necessarily competing with the big aggregators, but by working with them and filling gaps that they don’t...
7 AI-Powered RegTech Newcomers to Watch in 2025
A new wave of RegTech startups – founded ~2018 onwards – is leveraging AI to transform regulatory compliance across anti-money laundering, customer due diligence, trade surveillance, ESG reporting, and more. These “innovators to watch” are gaining traction via institutional adoption and regulatory sandbox programs. For identifying promising startups in AI-powered compliance technology, we evaluated each...
A (Free) Practical AI Handbook for Capital Markets Professionals
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has swiftly transitioned from a promising concept into an operational reality across the capital markets. Senior executives, compliance leaders, and technology specialists are already well-acquainted with the potential of AI to streamline processes, enhance decision-making, and open new competitive opportunities. Yet, the current challenge isn’t about grasping AI’s transformative potential – it’s...
Bloomberg Launches Strategy Optimizer to Streamline ETF Trading Workflow
Bloomberg has launched a new tool, Strategy Optimizer, aimed at enhancing the efficiency of exchange-traded fund (ETF) trading workflows while reducing execution costs. The solution is accessible via RFQe, Bloomberg’s ETF Request for Quote service, and is fully integrated with EMSX, the firm’s equities-focused execution management system. Strategy Optimizer allows portfolio managers and traders to...
S&P’s Capital IQ Pro Flagship Offers Visible Alpha with View to Expansion
Behind every stock analyst’s financial forecast report is a detailed data model that tracks the company so that they can arrive at a view on that asset. Until about eight years ago it was difficult to prise open those reports to understand the thinking behind the headline numbers. Visible Alpha helped change that. Founded by...
Data Usage Rights Patent is Music to the Ears of VendEx Boss
Richard Clements has a talent for explaining highly technical concepts in ways that make them sound as easy as listening to your favourite song. Which is apt, considering that the chief executive of VendEx, a vendor and data cataloguing technology provider, explains his company’s latest innovation with a guitar perched on a stand beside him....
Fourteen FIX Engine Technologies to Consider in 2025
FIX engines, the workhorses of financial messaging, are quietly undergoing a continuous transformation. First developed in the early 1990s by Fidelity Investments and Salomon Brothers to standardise electronic equity trading, the FIX (Financial Information eXchange) Protocol quickly became the global standard for order and trade messaging across asset classes. Rather than commoditised infrastructure, today’s FIX...
AI in Finance: Key Insights from the SEC’s Landmark 2025 Roundtable
In late March, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) hosted a landmark roundtable on artificial intelligence (AI) in financial services. Held in Washington, D.C., the event brought together regulators, technologists, market participants, and legal experts to explore the evolving landscape of AI – from transformative innovation to systemic risk. This wasn’t about rulemaking –...