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Substantive Research Finds AI Driving Market Data Costs Higher as Investment Research Budgets Stall
Two new studies from Substantive Research reveal contrasting commercial pressures across the financial information industry, with market data vendors seeking substantial premiums for AI-enabled access while investment research providers struggle to translate growing machine consumption into additional revenue. The findings highlight how artificial intelligence is reshaping the economics of financial information, raising questions about pricing…
Xinthesys Launches AIMOS to Automate Regulatory Requests from Trade Lifecycle Event Data
Trade and regulatory reporting specialist Xinthesys has launched AIMOS, an agentic artificial intelligence framework within its Agile Data Processing and Engineering Technology Platform (ADEPT) and the underlying event-based TradeStore repository. TradeStore is designed to be a single source of truth for event-level trade lifecycle data at scale, supporting sell-side firms processing hundreds of millions of…
FCA Market Watch 86 Reveals Material Weaknesses in MAR Surveillance
The FCA recently published Market Watch 86 highlighting a number of deficiencies in the systems, controls and governance over market abuse regulation (MAR). This follows supervisory visits to seven large retail oriented broker-dealers with high volumes of single-stock equities playing an important role in identifying and reporting potential insider dealing and exposure to other forms…
BBH Subsidiary Braid Seeks to Fill Data Transformation Hole for Financial Institutions
As data is distributed throughout an enterprise, it has to be integrated with a variety of technologies in order to bring efficiencies to different workflows. This can create a lot of manual overhead, particularly in organisations with fragmented legacy tech systems. While bolt-on point solutions exist, they tend to be custom-built for particular use cases…
InterSystems-Aegis Trace Collaboration Seeks to Give Clients AI Adoption Confidence
Data integrator InterSystems has engaged Aegis Trace to provide the tools for clients to manage their data in a way that ensures trust in their artificial intelligence-led decision making. MSDK Labs-developed Aegis Trace brings it traceability capabilities to InterSystems IRIS data platform, enabling financial institutions and other regulated industries to evidence and audit the responses…
How AI is Reshaping the Buy/Build Calculus for Capital Markets Technology
Artificial intelligence is changing the economics of technology development across capital markets, making it faster and cheaper for firms to build their own applications. But while AI is lowering the barriers to software development, it is also raising questions about long-term ownership costs, the pace of vendor innovation and where firms should focus their technology…
Data and Governance Take Centre Stage in AI Adoption
Financial institutions are making significant progress in deploying agentic AI, but differences in data infrastructure, governance and commercial priorities are creating a widening gap between those scaling the technology and those still experimenting, according to new research from A-Team Group. The study, commissioned by LSEG Data & Analytics and based on responses from 200 senior…
The $1million Brokerage Fee Blind Spot Banks Can No Longer Ignore
By Liz Collegio, Head of Product Management, Meritsoft (a Cognizant company). Banks scrutinise every fraction of a basis point on the trading desk, yet millions can still leak away through brokerage fees. These fees are the cost of doing business, but few have a clear view of what they should be paying across the business….
S&P Global Expands AI Data Strategy with Visible Alpha, Credit Ratings and Enhanced ChatIQ
S&P Global is extending its AI-enabled data delivery capabilities with the addition of Visible Alpha consensus estimates and credit ratings to its AI Data Portal, alongside expanded conversational AI functionality within Capital IQ Pro. The announcements reflect a broader strategy to make its financial datasets accessible through external AI applications and agents while embedding AI…
A-Team Group Announces AI in Capital Markets Awards 2026 Winners
As artificial intelligence dominates conversations among the decisions makers of the world’s financial institutions, A-Team Group has recognised the vendors that are enabling those firms to transform their operations with the most cutting edge of technologies. In its second annual AI in Capital Markets Awards, the group celebrates the technology suppliers in this fast-growing sector…