42Markets Group, a fintech investment group, has raised $10m in growth funding from Convergence Partners, a prominent private equity investor focusing on sub-Saharan Africa’s technology sector. The funds will be used to accelerate the development and expansion of 42Markets’ portfolio companies: Mesh, Andile, and FX Flow.
Convergence Partners’ investment in 42Markets is supported by 14 global development finance institutions (DFIs) from Europe, the US, and Africa.
Date: 28 April 2026 Time: 10:00am ET / 3:00pm London / 4:00pm CET Duration: 50 minutes What digital asset and prediction markets are teaching traditional exchanges about availability, agility and time-to-market. New market structures and regulatory changes are forcing exchange operators to rethink the foundations of their technology stacks. Digital asset exchanges, prediction markets and...
The conversation around trading technology has become more exacting over the past year. AI is moving into production environments. Data estates are being rationalised and rebuilt. Infrastructure decisions are increasingly shaped by resilience, transparency and regulatory pressure. Against that backdrop, A-Team Group’s TradingTech Summit London 2026 takes place at a time when firms are reassessing...
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he US may seem to be ahead of the rest of the world in terms of championing the data management cause with the inclusion of reference data focused items in the Dodd-Frank Act, but Europe is not too far behind. Senior European level officials such as European Central Bank (ECB) president Jean-Claude Trichet have taken...