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Integrating AI into Legacy Infrastructure – Balancing Innovation and Reality
Integrating cutting-edge AI into the financial sector’s entrenched legacy systems is one of today’s most pressing challenges. How can firms balance the promise of innovation with the hard reality of their existing infrastructure? At the A-Team Group’s recent AI in Capital Markets Summit London, a panel of experts tackled this very issue. Moderated by Naomi…
smartTrade Taps AWS Hybrid Cloud to Slash Deployment Times and Power AI-Driven Trading
smartTrade Technologies is fundamentally overhauling its deployment and innovation capabilities through a new hybrid cloud initiative with Amazon Web Services (AWS). The project, dubbed MetaCloud, empowers smartTrade to provision complete client trading environments in under 15 minutes according to the company – a dramatic acceleration aimed at boosting scalability and operational agility. At the core…
Unlocking the Value of Data as a Differentiator
The rhetoric around data as a strategic asset is now well established across capital markets. But as AI adoption accelerates and pressure mounts to deliver tangible outcomes, the real challenge is turning that rhetoric into operational reality. Access to data is no longer the constraint. What matters now is how effectively firms can organise, govern,…
What to Expect at A-Team Group’s AI in Capital Markets Summit – New York, June 26, 2025
On June 26th, the A-Team Group brings its AI in Capital Markets Summit to New York City for the first time. The event will be held at @Ease on Third Avenue for a packed day of strategy, insight, and implementation. As artificial intelligence matures from early-stage experimentation to enterprise-wide deployment, capital markets firms face a…
South Africa High on the List for Global HFT Firms
By Merlin Rajah, Head: Equities Electronic Product at Absa CIB. Infrastructure Evolution: JSE’s Leap Forward For exchanges, High-Frequency Trading (HFT) firms are a significant revenue driver – generating income through execution, clearing, settlement, colocation, and market data services. Sell-side firms benefit as well, gaining a steady revenue stream and an increased market share. A major…
Johannesburg Stock Exchange Enhances Global Trading Access with JSE-FIX and Colo 2.0 Expansion
The Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE), Africa’s largest stock exchange, has launched new initiatives to improve electronic trading access and infrastructure for both local and international investors. In partnership with Rapid Addition, the JSE introduced JSE-FIX, a new order routing service using FIX Community messaging standards. This service enables global investors to integrate South African equities…
Options Technology Relaunches Integrated Desktop as AtlasWorkplace for Buy-Side IT Solutions
Options Technology has announced the relaunch of its Integrated Desktop product under a new brand, AtlasWorkplace, aimed at serving Hedge Funds, Private Equity firms, Asset Managers, and other financial services organisations. AtlasWorkplace is designed to provide a secure, scalable IT infrastructure that meets the unique operational needs of buy-side firms. The platform combines managed services…
A Look Ahead to This Year’s AI in Capital Markets Summit London
On 22 May, the AI in Capital Markets Summit returns to London for its second year, bringing together data, technology, and innovation leaders from across the financial services sector for a full day of discussion around AI strategy, deployment, and governance. Held at the Leonardo Royal Hotel London City, this A-Team Group event will examine…
LDA Technologies Launches Low-Jitter Multicast Distribution System for Fairer Market Data Access
LDA Technologies, provider of ultra-low latency, networking and FPGA technology, has launched a new multicast distribution system designed to address longstanding fairness issues in market data delivery for electronic trading. The system synchronises exchange customer ports to within 50 picoseconds, an improvement of 98% over conventional Layer 1 switches, enabling exchanges to distribute data uniformly…
Unlocking Competitive Edge: Outsourcing and Managed Services in Trading Technology
Faced with intensifying cost pressures, regulatory shifts, evolving market dynamics and rapid technological change, capital markets firms are seeing the roles of outsourcing and managed services becoming increasingly strategic. But how do they decide what to outsource and what to retain in-house? How can they preserve agility and oversight while handing over key infrastructure? And…