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Open Standard Group Set to Challenge Circle, Tether in $300 Billion Stablecoin Market
A consortium led by Visa, BlackRock, Google and Coinbase, and including more than 140 financial services, e-commerce, technology and DLT players, plans to launch a US Dollar-denominated stablecoin dubbed Open USD later this year. When it goes live, the Open Standard group will challenge existing leaders Circle and Tether, which between them dominate the $300+…
Why Prediction Markets Have to Survive the Events They Launch For
By Daniel Davis, Chief Revenue Officer, Connamara Technologies. Every prediction market operator knows the clock is running. The opportunity in this sector is tied to things that happen on fixed dates: an election, a championship final, a central bank decision, or a geopolitical flashpoint. But if a venue isn’t trading before the event, it doesn’t…
10 Leading Providers of Cloud Migration, Scalability and Analytics Innovation
The practical evolution of financial technology has shifted from isolated on-premises deployments to highly distributed cloud architectures. This transition is not a sudden revolutionary overhaul but an incremental migration aimed at converting fixed infrastructure costs into variable operational expenses while unlocking computational elasticity. To execute this shift without risking operational downtime or compliance breaches, institutional…
Reconciliation No Longer Has Time On Its Side as T+1 Approaches
By John Bevil, senior product manager at Xceptor. Europe’s capital markets firms are entering the most consequential phase of T+1 preparation. From 11 October 2027, trades executed in European markets are expected to settle one business day after trade date, reducing the settlement cycle from T+2 to T+1. More than 4 trillion euros of securities…
Report Once – ESMA’s Simplification Plan for Regulatory Reporting
ESMA has turned the long-running industry case for “report once” transaction reporting into a staged policy programme for rebuilding EU reporting around reusable, controlled transaction data. Its Final Report On the Call for Evidence recommends a single integrated framework across the Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation (MiFIR), European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR) and Securities Financing…
S&P Global Moves Kensho to the Front of Market Intelligence in Agentic Reorganisation
S&P Global has restructured its Market Intelligence division into two verticals, elevating Kensho from an embedded AI engine to a named, client-facing layer and confirming the direction the business set out earlier this year. The reorganisation, announced on 6 July, folds data delivery, platform capabilities and client engagement into a single AI-led structure and moves…
BMLL and Exponential Decode US Equity Flow from the Order Book
BMLL and Exponential Technology have partnered to launch XTech US Equity Flow, a product that decodes full-depth US equity order-book data into net buying and selling attributed by investor type. Announced on 2 July, it breaks flow down into high-frequency, fund and retail activity across US equity venues, turning raw microstructure data into something the…
AI in Finance Requires Developing the Right Operational Mindset
By Carl Thornberg, Head of Optimisation and Analytics Technology at OSTTRA. Integrating AI into the finance sector requires navigating a robust regulatory landscape designed to ensure stability and security, a process that demands a deliberate and meticulous approach to technology adoption. To build confidence for experimentation with this not-yet-fully-understood technology, essential safety nets must be…
Is Speed No Longer the Hard Part in Trading Infrastructure?
A panel of high-performance trading infrastructure architects, convened at A-Team Group’s recent TradingTech Summit New York to discuss the blueprint for speed, spent remarkably little of its time talking about speed. The tick-to-trade race still runs, and firms still shave nanoseconds where a strategy justifies it, but raw latency is the part this end of…
Six RegTech Providers Tackling Sanctioned Securities and Financial-Instrument Screening
Sanctions screening in capital markets and treasury extends beyond conventional checks on payments, people and legal entities. Firms need to identify exposure inside securities, issuers, funds (including ETFs), indices, structured products, derivatives and custody positions. They also need to track changes as sanctions regimes, ownership structures and instrument composition shift. That creates a different control…