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Driving the Future of Capital Markets: A-Team Group’s Innovation Awards 2026 Winners Announced

A-Team Group is proud to reveal the winners of our Innovation Awards 2026, celebrating the visionary technology providers and practitioners redefining the landscape of financial services. Now in its sixth year, these awards recognise excellence in the deployment of new and emerging technologies across capital markets. This year’s recipients have demonstrated extraordinary ingenuity in solving…

Recorded Webinar: From 24/7 to Event-Driven: Engineering the Next-Generation Exchange Platform

What digital asset and prediction markets are teaching traditional exchanges about availability, agility and time-to-market. New market structures and regulatory changes are forcing exchange operators to rethink the foundations of their technology stacks. Digital asset exchanges, prediction markets and retail-driven platforms have normalised 24/7 trading, continuous availability and rapid product iteration. In contrast, many traditional…

Building for a Market That Never Sleeps: Inside LSEG’s Real-Time Data Platform Optimisation

As data volumes surge and markets move toward 24/7 operation, LSEG is rebuilding the infrastructure that underpins its real-time data services – combining hyperscaler capabilities with private-cloud control to deliver scale, speed and resilience for the next generation of capital markets workflows. The forces reshaping real-time data The demands on real-time market data infrastructure are…

Financial Markets Need Their Own Mission Control

By Diederik Geeraerts, CEO at Taskize, a Euroclear company. With the Artemis II astronauts back down to Earth after travelling a quarter of a million miles to the Moon and back, the mission stands as a reminder of what success in complex systems really depends on. Not perfection, but the assumption that things can go…

New Cloud-Native OMS Valstro Goes Live at Top-Ten US Equities House

Sell-side equities order management is not a market that often welcomes new entrants. The platforms that broker-dealers run on tend to have been in production for a decade or more, and the cost of switching has long been a deterrent to anyone considering a move. New York-headquartered Valstro, which emerged from stealth this month with…

FIS Enhances Cross-Asset Trading and Risk Suite to Level Playing Field for Smaller Firms

FIS has announced significant strategic advancements to its Cross-Asset Trading and Risk Suite, aimed at streamlining operations for investment firms of all sizes. The updated platform integrates order, portfolio, position, and risk management into a single, flexible system. By replacing disconnected legacy systems and manual processes, the suite allows smaller firms to access sophisticated trading…

Horizon Trading Solutions Launches FixConnect to Streamline FIX Connectivity

Horizon Trading Solutions has launched Horizon FixConnect, a new connectivity tool developed to accelerate the onboarding of clients and brokers. Built on the high-performance Aeron data infrastructure, the solution enables users to configure FIX connections via a self-service interface within the Horizon Trader Workspace. This integration removes traditional dependencies on IT and operations teams, allowing…

Trading Technologies and Mercantile Exchange of Vietnam Announce Global Connectivity Agreement

Trading Technologies International (TT) and the Mercantile Exchange of Vietnam (MXV) have signed an agreement to enhance MXV’s exchange connectivity services. Under the new collaboration, the global capital markets technology provider will supply the infrastructure necessary for MXV’s trading members and clients to access a wider range of international derivatives markets. The partnership integrates TT’s…

Exchange Technology 2.0: Future-Proofing Exchange Architecture

By Ian Salmon, Head of Product Marketing, Adaptive. Exchange technology is back under strategic review, but not in the narrow sense of another performance upgrade cycle. Across the market, venue operators are reassessing the foundations of their platforms because the environment around them is becoming more demanding, more diverse and less predictable. For some, that…

TS Imagine Launches Automation 2.0 as Assets Under Service Reach $19.5 Trillion

TS Imagine has unveiled Automation 2.0, an event-driven trading platform designed to help institutional desks manage sophisticated, rule-based workflows across multiple asset classes. The launch coincides with a significant growth milestone for the firm, which now manages over $19.5 trillion in assets under service, a substantial increase from the $5.3 trillion reported in 2023. This…