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The Hidden Challenge Lurking Beneath Energy Trading’s Bumper Profits
By Ami Katschinski, CEO and co-founder, Sphere. Sky-high trading profits earlier this year reignited the age-old debate of how, during market turbulence, some energy firms emerge as victors while others find themselves on the loss-making side of the trade. Geopolitical conflict has, and always will, create a frenzy of noise and opportunity for massive profits….
What the 2026 TradingTech Insight Awards USA Reveal About the Direction of the Trading Stack
The trading stack that North American capital markets ran on five years ago is not the one they run on now. Front-office systems that once stood alone are being asked to talk to one another. Data that was once simply delivered is now expected to drive decisions. And the question vendors hear from buy-side and…
Aiviq Launches AI-Powered Native App on Snowflake Marketplace
Aiviq, the client data platform for the investment management industry, has launched an AI-powered Native App on the Snowflake Marketplace. The application deepens the integration between the two firms, allowing joint customers to securely access Aiviq datasets, including assets under management (AUM), flow, and net revenue data, directly within their Snowflake environments. The app utilises…
Clearwater Analytics Launches AI-Enabled Products for Institutional Investment Workflows
Clearwater Analytics has introduced three AI-enabled products built on its investment data platform, which supports more than $10 trillion in global assets. The new solutions – Clearwater Compass, Total Portfolio Oversight, and Fund Analytics – expand the company’s platform across institutional operations, risk management, and private markets workflows. They aim to automate complex tasks and…
Agentic AI, Data Readiness and Governance Shape AICMS London 2026
AI adoption in capital markets has entered a more exacting phase. The early cycle of pilots, productivity tools and isolated use cases is giving way to questions of operating model, governance, data architecture, control evidence and return on investment. A-Team Group’s AI in Capital Markets Summit London 2026 will examine that shift through a practical…
SmartStream Launches Smart Agents AI Solution for Banking Operations
SmartStream has announced the launch of Smart Agents, an agentic artificial intelligence (AI) solution purpose-built for financial institutions and regulated environments. Natively integrated with Smart Reconciliations, the system is designed to streamline bank operations and can be deployed immediately without requiring modifications to a client’s existing infrastructure. The technology has already been validated through successful…
Duco Unveils Tool-Surface Architecture to Make Agents Auditable in Post-Trade
In agentic post-trade, explainability remains one of the hardest problems to solve. Agents can already read systems, draft exceptions, propose amendments and assemble workflows. What they have struggled to do – in a way that satisfies a Head of Operations facing a regulator – is leave behind an audit trail that survives scrutiny. Duco’s launch…
AI in Capital Markets Handbook 2026: From Experimentation to Governed Execution
Capital markets firms are under pressure to convert AI experimentation into sustainable business value. The challenge is not simply finding use cases but demonstrating that AI can support regulated workflows through approved data, accountable ownership, measurable outcomes and defensible evidence. A-Team Group’s AI in Capital Markets Handbook 2026 examines that shift across the trade lifecycle….
Video: The Agentic Brokerage – Devexperts’ Jon Light on Why Retail Trading’s Next Platform Shift is Already Underway
According to Jon Light, Senior Director of Product Management at Devexperts, “agentic brokerage” is becoming a loaded term in retail – but the genuinely interesting shift is structural, not cosmetic. Most AI in brokerage today is still assistive: chatbots, market summaries, onboarding tools that respond when prompted and then go quiet. An agentic system stops…
National Bank of Greece in Cyprus Goes Live with Smartstream AI Reconciliation Solution
Smartstream, the data solutions provider for global financial institutions, has announced that the National Bank of Greece (NBG) in Cyprus has successfully deployed its AI-enabled reconciliation solution, Air. The bank has implemented Air’s Cash module to consolidate four separate legacy reconciliation systems used for Instant, Cash, SEPA, and Nostro transactions into a single platform. Prior…