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STS Digital and Haruko Integrate to Give Institutional Options Traders Unified Risk View

STS Digital, the regulated principal trading firm specialising in digital asset derivatives, has integrated with institutional portfolio management provider Haruko to deliver consolidated risk and position reporting for options traders. The integration allows institutional clients who trade vanilla and exotic options on STS Digital’s platform to view those positions on an aggregated basis alongside activity...

Testing Industry Perceptions at Data Management Summit London

Every year at the A-Team Group Data Management Summit we take the pulse of the financial data and tech industry on a range of critical topics of the day. We do this through audience participation questions during the day-long event, urging delegates to interact with speakers and other participants via remote voting on salient questions....

Business Conduct Data in Demand as Risk Exposure Rises in a Complex World

Business conduct data is becoming more important to financial institutions as the risk of exposure to damaging incidents increases. A new survey of more than 500 C-suite risk leaders by RepRisk – a provider of data on business conduct risks faced by financial and other industries – found that four-fifths expect business conduct risk data...

YipitData Locks in Apptopia as Exclusive Mobile Data Provider, Signalling Supply Chain Consolidation

Apptopia has announced a partnership with YipitData under which Apptopia will serve as YipitData’s exclusive provider of mobile app data, powering several of the alternative data platform’s consumer-facing research products for buy-side clients including hedge funds and asset managers. The deal formalises what appears to have been a deepening relationship between the two firms. In...

Reconciliation and the Silent Revolution Reshaping Financial Operations

By Sarva Srinivasan, head of global strategy and managing director at NeoXam, Americas. In most financial institutions, reconciliation has traditionally lived quietly in the background. It is often viewed as a necessary control process that ensures transactions, positions and balances match across systems and counterparties. Important, yes, but rarely considered fundamental to the business. But...

Tokenisation’s Real Barrier Is Perception, Not Regulation, Summit Panel Argues

Stablecoins account for roughly $300 billion of tokenised value, intraday repo products are running at billions per day on distributed ledger infrastructure, and at least one retail venue has processed $25 billion in tokenised equity trading. Yet institutional adoption remains sluggish, held back, a panel at A-Team Group’s TradingTech Summit London 2026 argued, less by...

ISDA Taps Gentek AI for DRR Traceability Tool

The International Securities Swaps and Derivatives Association has selected Gentek AI to build a traceability tool for Digital Regulatory Reporting (DRR). Gentek will develop a tool designed to let users track the history of DRR decision-making and connect coding choices back to regulatory requirements. The story behind the announcement is that Gentek comes to the...

Enforcement Targeting Weak Control Design – The GRC Fault Line

Recent enforcement actions point to sharpened regulatory expectations for evidence of controls capable of preventing, detecting, escalating, and correcting risk. Where firms are falling short, enforcement is landing on design, governance, and oversight failures. Across trading surveillance, client onboarding and valuation governance, regulators are drawing the same distinction between having controls on paper and having...

Why Good Data Still Doesn’t Get Licensed: What Breaks Trials and What Fixes Them

The alternative data industry has a conversion problem. Vendors offer trials expecting them to sell themselves. Buy-side firms accept trials with genuine intent but competing priorities. The result is a gap between a promising evaluation and a signed contract where deals routinely die, often for reasons that have nothing to do with the quality of...

BitGo and Susquehanna Build First Institutional OTC On-Ramp to Prediction Markets

Prediction markets have attracted growing institutional interest as tools for price discovery around political, economic, and event-driven outcomes, but participation has remained largely confined to retail platforms with workflows that most institutional trading desks cannot operationally support. BitGo and Susquehanna Crypto are now attempting to close that gap with what they describe as the first...