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Making the Most of Mainframe Structured Data: Webinar Preview
Mainframes still provide the data and computational backbone of many financial institutions but some organisations are encountering challenges as they try to integrate them with newer architectures. Many are incompatible with cloud and server-based architectures as well as APIs. Work-arounds can be achieved but they require middleware that can be costly and time consuming to…
Data Standards Bring Many Gains (If You Have the Right Setup): Webinar Review
Standards and identifiers are helping to improve the quality of data used by capital market participants, but organisations with legacy architectures are finding it challenging to capitalise on those benefits, according to polls by A-Team Group. Half of respondents to surveys held during a recent A-Team Group Data Management Insight webinar said that data standardisation…
AI is Helping to Solve New ESG Data Challenges: ESG Briefing Review
The peculiar demands that ESG data integration places on capital markets participants requires powerful techniques that are increasingly being provided through artificial intelligence, A-Team Group’s recent ESG Data and Tech Briefing London heard. From data quality monitoring and analytics to supply chain analysis and investment management, AI-based tools are already offering automated solutions to some…
Why Implementing Digital Regulatory Reporting is Vital for Compliance
The regulatory burden is increasing year on year and with the mounting threat of fines, financial firms must ensure compliance. Leo Labeis, CEO of REGnosys, explores how firms can implement digital regulatory reporting properly to help and ensure future competitiveness. Financial Institutions face mounting pressure to stay compliant with significant regulatory rewrites across Europe, Japan,…
Are Financial Infrastructures Ready for Round-the-Clock Trading?
Sergei Samushin, Head of Exchange Solutions, Devexperts. Financial markets are increasingly moving to incorporate longer trading hours. Whether it be pre-and post-market availability extending the traditional trading day, or 24/5 overnight trading in stocks, futures, and ETFs, the trend is clear. The progressive shortening of settlement cycles across jurisdictions is further evidence of this. There’s…
LTX Launches BondGPT Intelligence to Deepen AI Integration in Bond Trading Workflows
LTX, the AI-powered corporate bond trading platform backed by Broadridge Financial Solutions Inc., has launched BondGPT Intelligence, a new capability that embeds generative AI directly into the trading workflow. The functionality is designed to anticipate users’ needs in real time and deliver targeted insights without requiring them to leave the platform. According to Jim Kwiatkowski,…
SOLVE Launches AI-Powered Pricing Tool for Corporate Bond Market
SOLVE, the fixed income data and pricing solutions provider, has launched of SOLVE Px, an AI-driven pricing tool for the high-yield (HY) and investment-grade (IG) corporate bond markets. The new tool delivers predictive, trade-level pricing across more than 100,000 corporate bonds, supporting fixed income professionals operating in often illiquid and fast-moving markets. Built on machine…
Don’t Forget People and Process when Deploying Agentic AI
When the financial industry talks ‘agentic AI’, there’s a tendency for the conversation to quickly devolve into cutting-edge technologies – large language models (LLMs), neural networks, generative algorithms (GenAI) etc. Agentic AI is really about transforming the business processes that define firms’ operations and the roles that supervise them. Success is dependent on more than…
Compliance Innovation at Droit: Bridging Symbolic Logic and GenAI
Compliance teams frequently face overwhelming regulatory shifts like those imposed by MiFID II or EMIR Refit. For many firms, understanding exactly how a new mandate impacts day-to-day operations can feel overwhelming – unless, of course, you can assess the operational impacts and immediately trace those mandates back to the source text itself. Since its founding…
Integrating AI into Legacy Infrastructure – Balancing Innovation and Reality
Integrating cutting-edge AI into the financial sector’s entrenched legacy systems is one of today’s most pressing challenges. How can firms balance the promise of innovation with the hard reality of their existing infrastructure? At the A-Team Group’s recent AI in Capital Markets Summit London, a panel of experts tackled this very issue. Moderated by Naomi…