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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: Modernising Equities Trading Infrastructure: Architecture, Resilience and the Economics of Change

Date: 14 October 2026 Time: 10:00am ET / 3:00pm London / 4:00pm CET Duration: 50 minutes Equities markets are entering a more distributed, always-on phase. Liquidity is fragmenting across venues and geographies, trading hours are extending toward 24/5 and beyond, and market data volumes, investor expectations and competitive pressure are all rising at once. Many…

Exegy Launches Hardware-Timestamped Market Data Capture Service

Exegy has partnered with packet capture specialist FMADIO to launch a new end-of-day PCAP service, providing hardware-timestamped raw market data through its Axiom consolidated feed infrastructure. Available across all Axiom points of presence, the service enables trading firms to access high-precision market data captures without deploying and maintaining their own packet capture infrastructure. The offering…

LSEG and CMC Markets Sign Multi-Year Financial Data Agreement

LSEG and CMC Markets have entered into a multi-year strategic agreement expanding CMC’s access to financial data, news and analytics to support the growth of its multi-asset trading and investment businesses. Under the agreement, CMC will gain broader access to LSEG’s real-time and delayed pricing, reference data, corporate actions information, news and analytical content. The…

CME Group Introduces Baseball Futures Based on Team Performance Indexes

CME Group has announced the launch of what it describes as the world’s first baseball futures contracts, extending its derivatives offering into professional sports. The contracts were scheduled to begin trading on 12 October, subject to regulatory review. Developed with FutureSports, the contracts track CME FutureSports Performance Indexes (FSPI), which use official league statistics to…

FactSet Expands Partnership with Scotia Wealth Management

FactSet has expanded its partnership with Scotia Wealth Management, part of Scotiabank, to provide broader access to investment research, market data and portfolio analytics across the Canadian wealth management business. Under the expanded agreement, financial advisers, investment professionals and support teams will gain access to FactSet’s unified research and intelligence platform, bringing together investment research,…

Is AI Changing the Market Data Business and Opening the Door to New Competition?

Artificial intelligence is prompting financial institutions to reassess how they source, consume and manage market data, potentially creating new opportunities for providers seeking to challenge established vendor relationships. As AI-driven workflows become more prevalent, data quality, governance and delivery flexibility are emerging as increasingly important considerations alongside traditional requirements for coverage, performance and cost. These…

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…

Waypoint Launches Wayfinder to Turn Exchange Notifications into Operational Intelligence

Waypoint Trading Solutions has launched Wayfinder, a new service designed to help financial institutions manage the growing volume of operational and market-data changes communicated by exchanges. Built into Waypoint’s existing Data Notification Manager (DNM) platform and developed in partnership with SEAD Software, Wayfinder uses AI to ingest exchange notifications and convert unstructured information into standardised…

Lynx Asset Management Selects xyt for Global Equities Liquidity Analytics

Stockholm-based systematic investment manager Lynx Asset Management has selected xyt to provide independent volume and liquidity analytics across global equities markets, supporting the development of its systematic trading strategies. The partnership will give Lynx a more granular view of intraday liquidity across trading venues, execution mechanisms and different times of day, moving beyond aggregated or…