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From Noise to Signal: How AI is Revolutionising Data Discovery for Traders and Investment Managers
The financial markets have never suffered from a lack of data. If anything, the challenge for modern traders and investment managers is quite the opposite: they are drowning in it. From real-time pricing and news feeds to unstructured earnings call transcripts and social media sentiment, the volume of information is immense. The critical differentiator in…
Duco Unveils ‘Agentic Workspace’ to Bridge Human-AI Collaboration in Operations
Duco, the AI-powered data automation company, has announced the launch of “Agentic Workspace,” a new collaboration layer within the Duco Platform designed to integrate human expertise with autonomous AI agents. Planned for general availability in Q1 2026, the workspace aims to provide financial institutions with a transparent, auditable environment where operations teams can build, maintain,…
SEC’s 2026 Examination Priorities – 10 Notable Changes
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has released its Examination Priorities for 2026, and while many supervisory themes continue from 2025, the tone and structure of the new document reflect a decisive pivot. After years of rapid organisational expansion and broadening remit, the Division of Examinations is now emphasising consistency, prioritisation and the effective…
The New Shape of Market Data: Why Institutions Are Moving Toward a More Modular, Machine-Readable Architecture
For decades, the market-data ecosystem has been defined by reliance on a handful of dominant vendors. Their breadth, depth and entitlements frameworks became foundational to both the trading desk and the wider enterprise. But the requirements of the modern financial technology stack have shifted dramatically. Cloud-native development, agentic AI workflows, and a proliferation of analytics-driven…
A-Team Group Announces Winners of the 2025 RegTech Insight Awards (USA)
A-Team Group is delighted to announce the winners of the 2025 RegTech Insight Awards USA, recognising the leading providers of RegTech solutions, and consultancy services for capital markets across North America. Spanning more than 30 categories, the 2025 awards programme recognised excellence across a wide range of regulatory compliance solutions and services. A-Team Group also presented…
Revolutionising the Power of Corporate Actions Data
By Tim Lind, Managing Director of DTCC Data Services. We live in a deeply networked society. Information sharing has moved from primarily one-to-one communication to global networks where data and information is shared instantly and broadly. Across financial services, many organisations continue to advance their communications approach; however, integral corporate actions event data, such as…
TRG Screen and S4 Partner to Deliver Integrated Market-Data Procurement and Operations
TRG Screen, provider of market data and subscription cost management technology, has formed a strategic partnership with S4 Market Data that brings together TRG’s operational managed-services platform with S4’s specialist procurement and negotiation expertise. The collaboration is designed to give financial institutions a single, integrated operating model across both the administrative and commercial layers of…
FpML to DRR: TradeHeader’s Journey to the Heart of Regulatory Data Standards
Digital Regulatory Reporting (DRR) has gained momentum as the industry looks to replace fragmented, firm-specific interpretations of reporting rules with a shared, machine-executable model that consistently links regulatory requirements to the data used to fulfil them. Rather than relying on templates, local mappings and bespoke logic embedded deep within legacy systems, DRR provides a common…
How Firms Are Adapting to a Multi-Channel, AI-Driven Future – Global Relay Survey
Global Relay has published its 2025/26 Data Insights: Communications Capture Trends report, now in its third annual edition and rapidly becoming a reference point for how regulated financial institutions manage their communications obligations. Drawing on data from more than 12,000 regulated financial institutions using Global Relay’s connectors, the survey tracks which channels firms are archiving,…
The Institutional Imperative: Unpacking the Challenges and Opportunities for Stablecoin Adoption
The shift of stablecoins from niche crypto assets to credible institutional financial instruments is gaining irreversible momentum. This trajectory was the central theme of a recent A-Team Group webinar, “Unpacking Stablecoin Challenges for Financial Institutions,” sponsored by Apex Group. Drawing on expertise from Sergey Nazarov, Co-founder of Chainlink, Daniel Gabreil, Digital Assets and Currency Lead…