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Data Should be Regarded as a Strategic Asset: Webinar Preview
The growing acceptance of data as an enterprise-wide necessity is gaining ground, especially within capital markets, where rapid changes in the global economy and increasing pressure on bottom lines is prompting a rethink of business models. The need for greater data and product delivery speeds, the demand for more efficient workflows to reduce costs and…
Tracing Data’s Transformation is Key to Compliance and AI Effectiveness: Webinar Preview
Transparency and accuracy are characteristics of data that are equally important for financial institutions’ compliance processes and the rollout of artificial intelligence applications. Without those qualities, regulators will have little trust in the disclosures of firms’ compliance teams and any AI technology will be prone to misleading and potentially damaging outputs. To ensure these two…
Symphony and the Future of Market Communications: T+1, DORA, and Deepfake Defence
In May 2024, the U.S. capital markets made the long-awaited transition to T+1 settlement, with RegTech company Symphony playing a quiet but pivotal role. The integration of its platform with DTCC’s Central Trade Manager (CTM) gave firms the ability to resolve trade contract breaks in real time, reducing the risk of settlement failure. “The DTCC,…
Optimising the Trader Desktop: A Strategic Imperative
The modern trading desk, a nexus of high-speed decision-making and complex data flows, is in the midst of profound transformation. At a recent A-Team Group webinar entitled ‘Enhancing Trader Efficiency with Interoperability – Innovative Solutions for Automated and Streamlined Trader Desktops and Workflows’, experts Dan Schleifer, President and co-founder of Interop.io, Richard Leder, CEO of…
Modernisation of Investment Accounting Rises in Importance Amid New Pressures
Investment accounting is moving up the data management agenda as regulatory pressure and investor demands collide with the limits of legacy systems, and as new technology makes real-time, enterprise-wide accuracy achievable at scale. Getting that right, however, requires planning and the careful selection of expert partners, argues Lior Yogev, chief executive at FundGuard. “When it’s…
BridgePort in Double Play to Advance Institutional Digital Asset Settlement
BridgePort, the middleware provider for institutional crypto, has made two significant moves to enhance digital asset settlement. The firm has announced a strategic partnership with Lynq, the real-time settlement network, and is also building a new application for real-time variation margin settlement on the Canton Network. The collaboration with Lynq is set to deliver a…
Leaders Scrutinise a Changing Industry at A-Team Group’s Annual Data Management Summit New York City
Experts and executives from across the financial data ecosystem gathered at A-Team Group’s Data Management Summit New York 2025 last week to discuss and probe the latest innovations, trends and strategies in our fast-moving industry. From data quality and artificial intelligence agents to modern data architectures and data products, a multitude of current topics were…
Innovative Systems Wins Best Data Solution for Regulatory Compliance Award at A-Team Group’s DMI USA Awards 2025
Innovative Systems has won the award for Best Data Solution for Regulatory Compliance for its FinScan Enhance solution in the Data Management Insight USA Awards 2025. The awards recognise established providers and innovative newcomers who offer solutions that are providing leading data management solutions, services and consultancy to capital markets participants across Europe. Winners are selected…
The Fig Strangler
By Steve Grob, Founder, Vision57. I spent the summer reflecting on the challenges of legacy technology stacks (or LegTech for short) within our industry. It’s a problem that has blighted our industry for years and it is only going to get worse as New Tech (AI anyone) leaves Trad Tech jogging in its smoke. Now…
The New ROI: How Cloud Data is Reshaping Performance and Strategy in Financial Markets
The conversation around cloud adoption in financial markets has fundamentally changed. The era of tentative migration and justifying projects based on CAPEX vs. OPEX is over. As a new report from LSEG, “Cloud Strategies in Financial Services,” confirms, the cloud is now a strategic default. But this maturity brings a new, more complex set of…