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Bloomberg Launches Options IOI to Streamline Equity Derivatives Liquidity Monitoring
Bloomberg has launched Options IOI, a price monitoring tool engineered to help equity derivatives investors manage pricing information overload and streamline liquidity screening. The solution utilises Bloomberg’s natural language processing (NLP), which is specifically calibrated for the derivatives markets, to automatically detect indications of interest (IOIs) within a user’s Instant Bloomberg (IB) chat rooms and…
Why the Buy Side’s Real Agility Problem is its Operating Model
Most buy-side firms know how to find an opportunity. What an increasing number are discovering is that the gap between identifying one and acting on it has become a structural weakness. And that the weakness sits not in the front office but in the operating model underneath it. That was the recurring argument of a…
Broadridge Enhances NYFIX Platform with Overnight US Equity Trading via CAPIS and Blue Ocean
Global fintech provider Broadridge Financial Solutions has announced an upgrade to its NYFIX platform, allowing clients to trade overnight U.S. equities. This capability is delivered through a new integration with institutional brokerage firm CAPIS and access to the Blue Ocean Alternative Trading System (ATS). The collaboration provides broker-dealers and institutional investors with extended-hours liquidity across…
National Bank of Greece in Cyprus Goes Live with Smartstream AI Reconciliation Solution
Smartstream, the data solutions provider for global financial institutions, has announced that the National Bank of Greece (NBG) in Cyprus has successfully deployed its AI-enabled reconciliation solution, Air. The bank has implemented Air’s Cash module to consolidate four separate legacy reconciliation systems used for Instant, Cash, SEPA, and Nostro transactions into a single platform. Prior…
Pacer Advisors Implements Bloomberg’s Order and Execution Management Solutions
Pacer Advisors has successfully implemented Bloomberg’s multi-asset order and execution management solutions (OEMSs) to automate its investment workflow. The integration includes Bloomberg Asset and Investment Manager (AIM) alongside EMSX, its multi-asset execution management system. This setup streamlines Pacer’s position management, trade execution, and compliance processes. As part of the deployment, Bloomberg introduced the Rule Builder…
Build, Buy, or Both? Why the Real Question for Quant Infrastructure Has Shifted to Where the Edge Sits
The questions have become perennial: build versus buy, cloud versus on-premise, in-house versus managed platform. But the discussion that emerged from a recent A-Team Group webinar on quantitative research infrastructure pointed to something more interesting than a binary choice. The build-versus-buy question, panellists agreed, has matured into a more sophisticated conversation about where firms locate…
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…
Recorded Webinar: Agility as Alpha: How Trading Infrastructure Determines Who Wins in Volatile Markets
Tariff shocks, geopolitical realignment and macroeconomic regime shifts are redrawing the investment landscape faster than most firms’ technology stacks can keep up. For hedge funds and asset managers, the ability to move quickly into new asset classes, geographies or strategies is no longer just an operational concern – it is a front-office differentiator and, increasingly,…
AI in Capital Markets Handbook 2026
AI adoption in capital markets has moved into a more disciplined phase. The priority is now controlled deployment: where AI can be used safely, where it can deliver measurable value, and how outputs can be governed, monitored and evidenced. The 2026 edition of the AI in Capital Markets Handbook examines how AI is being applied…
Recorded Webinar: Navigating the Build vs Buy Dilemma: Cloud Strategies for Accelerating Quantitative Research
For many quantitative trading firms and asset managers, building a self-provisioned historical market data environment remains one of the most time-consuming and resource-intensive steps in establishing a new research capability. Sourcing data, normalising symbologies, handling corporate actions and maintaining infrastructure can take months and absorb significant budget before a single model is tested. At the…