A-Team Insight Author: sharon
A-Team Group Announces Winners of RegTech Insight Awards Europe 2024
A-Team Group has announced the winners of its RegTech Insight Awards Europe 2024. 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 ever more complex regulatory requirements. The awards were announced on 23 May 2024. This year’s...
As Sustainability Data Sector Matures Challenges Remain: ESG Summit London Review
The ESG data sourcing challenge facing financial institutions has largely abated, but data quality remains an issue that even artificial intelligence (AI) can’t yet remedy. That was one of the key messages from the opening presentation at A-Team Group’s third annual ESG Data and Tech Summit London, in which Nirav Shah, senior executive director, quant...
Meeting the New Challenges of ESG Data and Tech
The ESG space is evolving rapidly, and for three years A-Team Group’s ESG Insight has been tracking its transformation. Now it’s time for us to evolve too. From next week, we will continue to provide our sustainability data and tech blogs, news and views through our core brands – Data Management Insight, RegTech Insight and TradingTech Insight. It’s a bold move...
Revolutionising Trading Workflows with AI and Interoperability
Together, AI and interoperability have the power to transform trader workflows in financial markets. Driven by the need for greater efficiency and performance, the promise of AI in decision-making and trade execution is now being realised through the integration of existing systems with new AI-based capabilities. This open, interoperable approach enables seamless workflows and personalised...
Devexperts Enhances Multi-Currency Support in DXtrade XT
Devexperts, the software solutions provider for capital markets, has unveiled a significant new version of its flagship platform, DXtrade XT, which introduces extensive multi-currency support, enabling brokers to expand their trading capabilities across international markets. In order to address the increasing demand from brokers for platforms that facilitate multi-market trading, DXtrade XT – initially launched...
Informatica Extends GenAI Capabilities
Informatica, a provider of enterprise cloud data management, has extended its GenAI capabilities by embedding its CLAIRE GPT GenAI-driven assistant into its Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC). The embed is designed to simplify and accelerate data management, and offer users natural language interaction with their data and the ability to create enterprise-ready GenAI applications. Informatica...
An Integrated Approach to Combating Financial Crime
Digital transformation in the capital markets sector has given rise to a dramatic increase in the volume of transactions and data, particularly in highly liquid markets. This increase coupled with complexities in cross-border and cross-product trading activity and innovations in financial assets (crypto, digital assets) has created a fertile ground for criminal exploitation. Financial crime...
Plenitude Acquires Contineo Financial Risk Solutions in Strategic Move
Plenitude Consulting has marked what it terms a pivotal moment in its journey with minority investor Global Capital Partners (GCP) by acquiring Contineo Financial Risk Solutions, a specialist Financial Crime Compliance (FCC) technical and advisory services provider. The acquisition is aimed at strengthening Plenitude’s position as a tech advisor and implementation services provider for AI-enabled...
SmartStream Adds Exchange Notification Services to Reference Data Utility
SmartStream Technologies, provider of the Reference Data Utility (RDU), has released an Exchange Notification Service (ENS) designed to track, consolidate and normalise reference data notifications published by exchanges. The service was developed in partnership with clients and extends the services of the RDU, which offers a managed service for vendor-sourced reference data. With more than...
The Hidden Cost of Bad Data – Why Accuracy Pays Off
By Ariel Junqueira-DeGarcia, Strategy and Technology Leader at Broadridge. In the financial world, data is king. But many argue that firms are dangerously reliant on data they inadequately understand, unknowingly wielding a double-edged sword that can just as easily enrich as it can erode. This article pulls back the curtain on the murky world of...