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Upcoming Webinar: The Buy-side Trading Desk of the Future

Date: 23 September 2026 Time: 10:00am ET / 3:00pm London / 4:00pm CET Duration: 50 minutes The buy-side trading desk is facing a structural reckoning. Decades of siloed systems for equities, FX and fixed income have created what COOs increasingly describe as a “silo tax” – duplicated headcount, fragmented data, and operational overhead that is…

AI is Redrawing “Build vs. Buy” for Trading Desk Models

Rohan Douglas, CEO of Quantifi Solutions. As technology, and AI in particular, continues to evolve and reshape the finance industry, trading desks are reconsidering how they source, maintain and extend their risk, pricing and analytics model libraries. Historically, this has often been framed as a build-versus-buy decision. Do you develop and maintain your own pricing…

Multiplying the Value of Unstructured Data

Financial institutions have spent years expanding the range of data available to investment, trading and risk teams. Increasingly, however, the challenge is not obtaining more data but making sense of what they already have. Unstructured data is estimated to account for 80-90% of the information generated withinfinancial institutions, encompassing everything from regulatory filings and earnings-call…

From volatility to visibility: The fixed income intelligence shift

Fixed income markets are undergoing a fundamental structural shift, transforming how institutions price risk, govern data and make decisions at scale. The convergence of cloud-based delivery, AI-enabled analytics, expanding private credit markets and heightened regulatory scrutiny, is redefining what ‘confidence’ means in fixed income workflows. Access to third-party pricing and valuations alone is no longer…

AutoRek Acquires Fintech Grath to Expand AI Capabilities and Global Footprint

AutoRek has acquired Grath, the London-based reconciliation and regulatory compliance technology firm founded in 2019. The acquisition adds AI-driven automated reconciliation capabilities to AutoRek’s portfolio, serving banks, payment providers, brokers, and fintechs across international markets. The combined organisation offers three flexible operating models within a single governed control framework. These include AutoRek’s core Enterprise Private…

Flow Traders Selects CoreWeave as Primary Cloud Platform for AI Division

CoreWeave, Inc. has been selected by global liquidity provider Flow Traders as the primary AI cloud platform provider for its AI and deep learning division. Under the agreement, Flow Traders will migrate its high-intensity foundation model training workloads to CoreWeave Cloud. The decision followed a competitive evaluation that highlighted CoreWeave’s multi-node performance, technical support, and…

Opetek Launches ARIUS Reasoning Platform with Tier One Bank Piloting on FX Options Desks

Opetek has launched ARIUS, a quantitative reasoning platform for institutional trading desks, which is being piloted by traders and quants at a tier-one global investment bank across live FX options workflows in New York, London and Singapore. A second tier-one institution has been approved and onboarded, with go-live expected in the coming weeks. Designed for…

From Water to Wine: Deploying AI as the multiplier for the value of unstructured data

With unstructured data now estimated to account for 80-90% of all information generated within financial institutions, it’s imperative for firms to find ways of harnessing its value. The universe of data types spans the familiar as well as the unusual, making onboarding and integrating these data sources a significant challenge. Key to success is structure….

Real-Time Surveillance is Still a Misnomer, but AI is Shortening the Window

The phrase “real-time surveillance” has long functioned more as a marketing label for market abuse detection than an accurate description of how firms operate. While modern technology can generate an alert the second a trade executes, the capacity to immediately review and act on that alert is far rarer. At A-Team Group’s recent AI in…

BMLL and SIGMA AI Partner to Benchmark Live Market Flow Against Historical Order Book Data

BMLL and SIGMA AI have announced a partnership combining BMLL’s historical Level 3, 2 and 1 order book data with SIGMA’s “Quant in the Cloud” streaming platform, producing an analytics layer that scores live market flow against historical benchmarks. The stated use cases are real-time anomaly detection, market regime classification and execution benchmarking, with anticipated…