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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…
STP Investment Services Named Premier Partner for Lightspeed TDMS Fund Services
STP Investment Services (STP) has been officially designated as the Premier Partner for Fund Services by Lightspeed Data Solutions. This formalises a commercial relationship that began in 2019, positioning STP as the preferred operational partner for investment firms using the Lightspeed Trade Data Management System (TDMS) platform. The two firms already share 18 investment managers…
Xceptor Launches AI-Driven Features to Streamline Reconciliation Configuration
Xceptor, the data automation specialist for capital markets, has introduced two new features, AI Reconciliation Rule Builder and Live Tester, to simplify the creation and validation of reconciliation logic. Initially accessible through the Xceptor Reconciliations SaaS platform, these tools use artificial intelligence alongside proprietary evaluation logic to automatically suggest matching and comparison rules from sample…
Over Four in Five UK Firms Now Engaged in T+1 Transition, Survey Reveals
A new market readiness survey by The ValueExchange shows that 83% of UK firms are actively preparing for the transition to a T+1 (one-day) trade settlement cycle, an increase from 66% in the third quarter of 2025. It also places the UK ahead of the US timeline, where only 67% of firms were engaged at…
Marathon Asset Management Consolidates Front-to-Back Investment Infrastructure with SimCorp
Marathon Asset Management, the London-based specialist equity manager overseeing more than USD 40 billion in assets, has consolidated its front-to-back investment operations onto the SimCorp One platform. This transition allows the firm to retire its legacy systems and establish a single, unified data layer across its entire business. The implementation extends an ongoing partnership between…
Europe’s Consolidated Tapes Near Launch With Their Core Promises Unresolved
After nearly two decades of debate, the European consolidated tapes are now just weeks away. The equities tape is scheduled to go live in July, the UK bond tape on 22 June. Yet a panel at A-Team Group’s ExchangeTech Summit London, moderated by Scott Charity, Head of Market Structure at Berenberg, and featuring Hayley McDowell,…
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…
EquiLend and Delta Capita Partner on Spire Implementation
EquiLend has entered a strategic partnership with Delta Capita to expand implementation support for EquiLend Spire, its securities finance platform. The arrangement gives EquiLend additional delivery capacity as adoption of Spire grows across the securities finance market. Delta Capita will act as an implementation partner for new client onboarding and platform upgrades, working within EquiLend’s…
European Market Structure’s Unfinished Business, Mapped
Two decades after MiFID I set out to introduce competition into European equity markets, the regulatory project has reshaped market structure without finishing the job it was meant to do. That, at least, was the thesis put to the opening panel at A-Team Group’s inaugural ExchangeTech Summit London earlier this month, entitled “Navigating the European…