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How AI is Reshaping the Buy/Build Calculus for Capital Markets Technology
Artificial intelligence is changing the economics of technology development across capital markets, making it faster and cheaper for firms to build their own applications. But while AI is lowering the barriers to software development, it is also raising questions about long-term ownership costs, the pace of vendor innovation and where firms should focus their technology…
Data and Governance Take Centre Stage in AI Adoption
Financial institutions are making significant progress in deploying agentic AI, but differences in data infrastructure, governance and commercial priorities are creating a widening gap between those scaling the technology and those still experimenting, according to new research from A-Team Group. The study, commissioned by LSEG Data & Analytics and based on responses from 200 senior…
Recorded Webinar: Generative and Agentic AI in Financial Markets: What the Data Really Shows
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 buy-side and sell-side institutions across the USA, UK and Canada, reveals a market in transition: from…
Pyth and Exa Explore New Market Data Model for AI Agents
Pyth Network and AI-native search provider Exa are collaborating to explore how AI agents can combine financial market data with web-based research, potentially opening up new approaches to data distribution, licensing and consumption as agentic AI becomes more widely adopted in financial services. The collaboration, currently in an early testing phase, brings together Exa’s search…
As AI Agents Enter Financial Workflows, Do Information Barriers Need to Follow?
The widely reported accidental disclosure of sensitive information at Morgan Stanley last month has brought data loss prevention (DLP) back into focus. The incident, in which an email reportedly exposed details of more than 100 investment banking deals, illustrates the risks that remain despite years of investment in communications monitoring and information barriers. The incident…
Nasdaq Calypso Builds Agentic Layer for the Shift to Always-On Markets
Nasdaq is extending its Calypso capital markets solution beyond its traditional role as a system of record, adding an agentic AI layer designed to support increasingly automated workflows across trading, risk, clearing and collateral management while retaining the deterministic processing at the core of the platform. The move follows the launch of an agentic AI…
Duco Maps a Path Towards Agentic Post-Trade Operations
Duco is extending agentic AI deeper into post-trade operations following production trials in which 12 financial institutions recorded an average 76% reduction in time spent on manual reconciliation work. The participants in Duco’s Pacesetters programme, which include BBVA, Blackstone Credit & Insurance and CIBC Mellon, reported reductions of more than 91% in the time required…
Buy vs. Build Now Has Two Answers in Investment Operations
By Pat Conroy, Head of Strategy, Product & Innovation, STP Investment Services. An operations leader at a mid-market investment manager is sitting across from a vendor demo. The pitch is compelling, but in the back of their mind, one question keeps surfacing: should we just build this ourselves? A year later, that same firm is…
Generative and Agentic AI in Financial Markets: From Pilot to Platform
Financial markets are at an inflection point in their relationship with artificial intelligence. The question is no longer whether to invest, it is how quickly institutions can move from experimentation to operational deployment, and what separates the firms that are scaling from those still stuck in extended pilot phases. The gap is wider than most…
Why the Future Trading Desk Looks More Augmented Than Autonomous
After decades of electronification and automation, the next stage in the evolution of the buy-side trading desk may be less about removing traders from execution than changing the information, tools and decisions that reach them. That was one of the clearest themes to emerge from A-Team Group’s recent TradingTech Insight webinar, The Buy-side Trading Desk…