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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…
Holistic Conduct & Surveillance: Unifying Trade, Voice, and eComms Data with AI
Holistic surveillance is moving beyond data integration towards an operating model that can surface cross-channel evidence, assign escalation ownership, govern approved channels, organise analysts around risk and keep AI-supported triage accountable to experienced human review. That was the central message of A-Team Insight’s recent webinar, Holistic Conduct & Surveillance: Unifying Trade, Voice, and eComms Data…
Where Institutional Alts Capital Is Actually Going – And Who Is Still Receiving It
Institutional capital in private markets is not just slowing, it is narrowing. A new dataset drawn from fund administrator reporting flows suggests that the share of assets held by the largest managers has reached its highest level on record, that all but one alternative asset class saw net outflows in the final quarter of 2025,…
DTCC Quantifies the Capital Case for Tokenised Collateral as AppChain Nears Q4 Launch
DTCC’s new research paper on tokenised collateral, published this week with consultancy Finadium, arrives as the business-case companion to a product rollout already well under way. A day earlier, DTCC confirmed that Chainlink’s Runtime Environment would provide the data and orchestration layer for its forthcoming Collateral AppChain. The paper now supplies the balance-sheet case institutions…
12 Leading Vendors Operationalising AI & ML with Robust Data Pipelines
The transition of artificial intelligence and machine learning (ML) models from experimental sandboxes to production environments remains a persistent operational friction point. While quantitative researchers and data scientists can often demonstrate alpha in isolated backtesting environments, the institutionalisation of these models requires a level of data pipeline robustness, latency control and regulatory auditability that research…
Dynamo Restarts the Roll-Up: InvestHub Deal Signals Next Phase of Private Markets Ops Consolidation
Dynamo Software’s acquisition of Paris-based InvestHub, announced on 12 May, is the company’s first piece of M&A activity in more than three years, and the choice of target says as much about where private markets operations technology is heading as the deal itself. Between 2019 and 2022, Dynamo bought at pace under Francisco Partners’ ownership:…
From Quiet Practice to Explicit Disclosure: How the Fed’s Alt-Data Use is Reshaping the Macro Stack
At the October 2025 FOMC press conference, during the federal government shutdown that had interrupted the flow of official statistics, Chair Jerome Powell did something the Federal Reserve has rarely done in public: he cited the alternative datasets from PriceStats, Adobe and ADP that the central bank was leaning on. For many observers of the…