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Upcoming Webinar: Generative and Agentic AI in Financial Markets: What the Data Really Shows
Date: 15 October 2026 Time: 10:00am ET / 3:00pm London / 4:00pm CET Duration: 50 minutes Artificial intelligence is reshaping financial markets – but the reality on the ground is more nuanced, more uneven, and more instructive than the headlines suggest. A new A-Team Insight research programme, drawing on responses from senior AI decision-makers at…
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…
Smartstream Brings MCP-Based AI Access to Collateral Operations
Smartstream, the data solutions provider for global financial institutions, has extended its use of agentic AI into collateral management with the launch of two Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers for its Smart Collateral platform, giving financial institutions a standards-based way to connect approved AI assistants directly to collateral data and workflows. The move is designed…
ExeQution Analytics Targets the FX Data Gap with Solas
ExeQution Analytics, the Australia-based trading analytics company, has launched Solas, a new analytics platform designed to help sell-side FX desks bring together market, trade, client and hedging data to gain a clearer view of trading performance, client behaviour and profitability. The platform, initially covering spot, forwards and non-deliverable forwards (NDFs), is aimed particularly at banks…
Sterling Launches STRIDER for 24-Hour Web and Mobile Trading
Sterling Trading Tech has launched STRIDER, an AI-driven web and mobile trading platform designed to support increasingly global and extended-hours trading. The platform provides 24/7 access to US equities and options trading through browsers and mobile devices, covering workflows ranging from straightforward equity execution to complex options strategies. It is interoperable with Sterling’s desktop environment…
The Missing Audit Trail in Agentic Workflows
As investment firms move AI agents out of experimental environments and into live workflows, the governance problem is becoming harder to ignore. Much of the early discussion around agentic AI has focused on what agents can do: retrieve information, call tools, analyse data, generate recommendations and increasingly act on behalf of users. Once those agents…
Your Bourse Releases MCP for Trade Server to Automate Brokerage Operations
Your Bourse has launched Model Context Protocol (MCP) for Trade Server, enabling brokers and proprietary trading firms to automate daily operations and query backend data through natural language. The feature is available immediately and allows firms to connect compatible AI assistants, such as Claude or ChatGPT, directly to Trade Server on their own infrastructure using…
ADX Launches First MENA Integration of Live Market Data into Conversational AI Platforms
The Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (ADX) has become the first stock exchange in the MENA region to provide direct access to official live market data through conversational artificial intelligence platforms, including ChatGPT and Claude. Delivered via a governed Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, the framework enables investors, developers, and institutions to query exchange data using…
S&P Global Expands Collaboration with Microsoft to Integrate AI Data into Microsoft 365 Copilot
S&P Global has announced an expanded collaboration with Microsoft to integrate its AI-ready data, analytics, and insights directly into Microsoft 365 Copilot workflows and agentic tools. Powered by the S&P Global AI Data Portal’s Deterministic Retrieval solution – also known as the Kensho LLM-ready API – the system enables users to access verifiable and cited…
AI is Redrawing “Build vs. Buy” for Trading Desk Models
By 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…