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A-Team Group Announces AI in Capital Markets Awards 2026 Winners
As artificial intelligence dominates conversations among the decisions makers of the world’s financial institutions, A-Team Group has recognised the vendors that are enabling those firms to transform their operations with the most cutting edge of technologies. In its second annual AI in Capital Markets Awards, the group celebrates the technology suppliers in this fast-growing sector…
LSEG and NVIDIA Accelerate Historical Market Data Analysis from Hours to Seconds
LSEG has announced a collaboration with NVIDIA that enables financial institutions to analyse years of historical tick data in seconds rather than hours, using GPU-accelerated processing technology. The initiative is designed to support increasingly data-intensive quantitative research, trading analytics and AI applications, while maintaining the licensing and access controls governing institutional market data. The collaboration…
Nasdaq Backs One Trading’s Push to Rethink Derivatives Market Infrastructure
Nasdaq Ventures’ strategic investment in One Trading, announced last week, could open the door to a different approach to derivatives market infrastructure, bringing technologies developed for digital asset trading into more traditional financial markets. The European regulated derivatives venue has built a platform that integrates execution, risk management and settlement, with an architecture designed to…
Is AI Changing the Market Data Business and Opening the Door to New Competition?
Artificial intelligence is prompting financial institutions to reassess how they source, consume and manage market data, potentially creating new opportunities for providers seeking to challenge established vendor relationships. As AI-driven workflows become more prevalent, data quality, governance and delivery flexibility are emerging as increasingly important considerations alongside traditional requirements for coverage, performance and cost. These…
The Always-On Exchange: Rebuilding Market Infrastructure for 24/5 and Beyond
US equity markets are moving towards a much longer trading day. Major exchanges are preparing for 23-hour trading, five days a week, while the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently devoted a roundtable to the operational, resilience, clearing and market-structure implications. Overnight trading remains relatively small – accounting for less than 1% of NMS stock…
Pyth and Exa Explore New Market Data Model for AI Agents
Pyth Network and AI-native search provider Exa are collaborating to explore how AI agents can combine financial market data with web-based research, potentially opening up new approaches to data distribution, licensing and consumption as agentic AI becomes more widely adopted in financial services. The collaboration, currently in an early testing phase, brings together Exa’s search…
Waypoint Launches Wayfinder to Turn Exchange Notifications into Operational Intelligence
Waypoint Trading Solutions has launched Wayfinder, a new service designed to help financial institutions manage the growing volume of operational and market-data changes communicated by exchanges. Built into Waypoint’s existing Data Notification Manager (DNM) platform and developed in partnership with SEAD Software, Wayfinder uses AI to ingest exchange notifications and convert unstructured information into standardised…
The Surveillance Challenge Behind an Increasingly Continuous Market
The shift towards 24/5 equities trading and the rapid growth of prediction markets are presenting new challenges for trade surveillance. With trading activity increasingly spanning multiple venues, instruments and time zones, identifying potential market abuse is becoming more complex, particularly where suspicious behaviour crosses traditional market boundaries. For surveillance technology providers, however, these developments don’t…
As AI Agents Enter Financial Workflows, Do Information Barriers Need to Follow?
The widely reported accidental disclosure of sensitive information at Morgan Stanley last month has brought data loss prevention (DLP) back into focus. The incident, in which an email reportedly exposed details of more than 100 investment banking deals, illustrates the risks that remain despite years of investment in communications monitoring and information barriers. The incident…
Financial Firms Confront the Next Phase of AI-Driven Compliance
Artificial intelligence is moving rapidly from experimentation into day-to-day compliance operations at financial institutions, changing not only how firms monitor communications and investigate potential breaches, but also the governance, data and skills they need to support those processes. That shift was evident during a private executive roundtable hosted by compliance recording specialist Luware at A-Team…