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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…
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…
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…
When Market Data’s Cloud Migration Is Over, What’s Left Behind?
The firms furthest along with cloud have stopped arguing about whether market data belongs there. What occupies them now are the questions that outlasted the migration: where the on-premises boundary finally holds, what turns out to cost money, and whether entitlement frameworks built for headcount can survive machines that consume data at machine speed. Getting…
A-Team Group Announces Capital Markets Technology APAC Awards 2026 Winners and Launches ‘State of the Market’ Report
A-Team Group today announced the highly anticipated winners of the Capital Markets Technology APAC Awards 2026. These prestigious awards celebrate the most innovative solution providers and financial institutions that are reshaping the capital markets technology landscape across the dynamic Asia Pacific region. In conjunction with the awards, A-Team Group has also launched the “State of…
Pico Wires LDA’s NeoTap X Into Corvil for AI-Ready Network Data
Pico and LDA Technologies have announced an integration that will see Pico’s Corvil Analytics platform support LDA’s NeoTap X aggregation technology in the forthcoming Corvil Analytics 10.2 release. The integration allows Corvil to ingest NeoTap X metadata – high-precision timestamps, per-port sequencing and data integrity signals – directly into its analytics pipeline, giving firms a…
NSCC Goes Live with 24×5 Clearing, Putting the Post-Trade Layer Ahead of the Exchanges
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has taken its National Securities Clearing Corporation (NSCC) subsidiary live with 24×5 clearing, extending the window from Sunday 8:00pm ET to Friday 8:00pm ET and applying NSCC’s central counterparty guarantee immediately to transactions executed across overnight sessions and multiple time zones. The change, which received SEC approval ahead…
Continuous Trading and the Death of End-of-Day
As US equities and other markets move toward continuous, around-the-clock trading, firms face a set of infrastructure questions the traditional trading day never forced them to answer. A panel at A-Team Group’s recent TradingTech Summit New York was convened to work through them: how to build a resilient foundation without adding operational risk; how to…
SOLVE Extends Relative Value Analysis to Peer-Group Cohorts
SOLVE has launched cohort-based Relative Value Analysis, an extension of its pre-trade platform that lets institutional fixed income traders and portfolio managers measure a bond against a dynamically defined peer group rather than picking off comparisons one bond at a time. The release, announced this month, adds two analytical frameworks – bond versus cohort, and…