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A-Team Group-Partnered Publication Looks into the FinTech Crystal Ball
Charting the digitalisation of the financial industry is the beating heart of what we do at A-Team Group. And we are delighted and proud to have had the opportunity to take our messaging further, for the first time co-producing a special supplement on the Future of Finance in a major British national newspaper. The “Future…
DTCC’s Project Ion Goes Live, Processing Over 100,000 Transactions Per Day on DLT
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the market infrastructure provider, has gone live in a parallel production environment with the Project Ion platform, an alternative equities settlement platform that leverages distributed ledger technology (DLT). The platform is now parallel processing an average of over 100,000 bilateral equity transactions per day, and almost 160,000 transactions…
A-Team Webinar to Review Trends and Technologies in Post-Trade Digitalisation
In financial markets, digitalisation is a hot topic. But until now, much of the work around digital transformation has been focused on front-office workflow and the customer experience, rather than back-office functions. But the back office is arguably where a clear digitalisation strategy can yield some of the most significant benefits, particularly as the industry…
Back to Basics – The Fundamental Approach for Digitising Capital Markets
By Scott Eaton, CEO, Nivaura. News cycles in capital markets are fixated on the automation of the fixed-income market. The focus is almost exclusively focused on the secondary market as major market participants are both evolving their own offering while simultaneously swatting off the competitors that are kicking the evolution into high-gear. AI, machine-learning, smart-data,…
ING Spins Out Pyctor Digital Assets Post-Trade Technology to GMEX Group
European banking group ING has spun out Pyctor, its institutional-grade custody solution for the digital asset ecosystem, to GMEX Group (‘GMEX’), the digital business and technology solutions provider for exchanges and post-trade market infrastructure. The Pyctor solution, incubated in ING Neo’s Amsterdam innovation lab, provides secure digital custody and transactional network services for a range…
Britain’s Innovative Aim to be a Leader in Digital Securities, Not Just Crypto
Charlie Berman, Co Founder and CEO of agora. The British government announced last month the UK’s intention to become a global hub for cryptocurrency by seizing on what it sees as a historic opportunity. A senior civil servant said it means an intention to ‘learn quickly’ and ‘harness the potential of blockchain’. As John Glenn,…
BT Radianz Cloud & Kaiko Partner for Crypto Market Data and Analytics
Kaiko, the cryptocurrency market data vendor, has partnered with BT Radianz to redistribute Kaiko’s digital assets market data and analytics via BT Radianz Cloud. Kaiko generates cryptocurrency market data from hundreds of sources globally, producing a market data feed that can be used by participants across the full cryptocurrency cycle. Radianz solutions provide cryptocurrency market…
Northern Trust Forms New Digital Assets and Financial Markets Group
Northern Trust has announced the formation of its Digital Assets and Financial Markets Group, combining the teams responsible for supporting the fast-growing digital asset markets and those dedicated to providing market access and insights across the traditional securities services markets. The new group, formed in response to the growth of digital markets alongside the continued…
Educating Retail: Lessons from the Terra-Luna Collapse
By Joe Jowett, CEO, StrikeX. The collapse of Terra has been one of the most significant events in the digital assets marketplace this year. The gains in the sector during the pandemic are now well-documented – Coinbase’s user base more than doubled between late 2019 and 2021 and Bitcoin saw a 300% increase in valuation…
Bloomberg Expands Crypto Data Coverage to Top 50 Crypto Assets
Bloomberg has expanded its coverage of cryptocurrency data on the Bloomberg Terminal to include the top 50 crypto assets, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, Binance Coin, XRP, Solana and others. Clients can now monitor intraday pricing for an expanded set of cryptocurrencies, indices and futures contracts in real-time. Bloomberg started providing Bitcoin prices on the Bloomberg Terminal…