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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…
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…
Recorded Webinar: The Buy-side Trading Desk of the Future
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 harder to justify now that the underlying workflows have, in functional terms, converged. Thirty years of…
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…