Abacus Group, a provider of hosting services for the hedge fund marketplace, has acquired Hedgepoint Solutions, a New York-based IT consulting firm that targets hedge funds, venture capital and private equity firms. As a result, Hedgepoint clients will benefit from the wide variety of features included in the Abacus Cloud platform, such as off-site data centres and a flexible, secure cloud.
Surveillance in capital markets has evolved in silos. Trade surveillance, voice recording, and electronic communications monitoring have traditionally operated as parallel control functions, each with distinct datasets, workflows and alerting logic. Yet recent enforcement actions on both sides of the Atlantic – ranging from off-channel communications failures to market manipulation cases – demonstrate a consistent...
Axiory.ai, a platform developed by the global brokerage Axiory in partnership with Purple Technology, has launched an infrastructure layer designed to allow AI agents to access and trade across multi-asset CFD markets through a single standardised environment. The platform is built on Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP), the open standard for connecting AI systems to...
A-Team Group, organisers of the TradingTech Summits, are pleased to announce the inaugural ExchangeTech Summit London on May 14th 2026. This dedicated forum brings together operators of exchanges, alternative execution venues and digital asset platforms with the ecosystem of vendors driving the future of matching engines, surveillance and market access.
AI adoption in capital markets has moved into a more disciplined phase. The priority is now controlled deployment: where AI can be used safely, where it can deliver measurable value, and how outputs can be governed, monitored and evidenced. The 2026 edition of the AI in Capital Markets Handbook examines how AI is being applied...