A-Team Group Expands Events with Acquisition of Eagle Alpha’s Alternative Data Conferences
A-Team Group, the publisher of this newsletter, has acquired the Alternative Data Conference business from Eagle Alpha, the leading platform for alternative data solutions. This move significantly expands our event portfolio and broadens our footprint in the capital markets industry. This move directly complements our TradingTech Insight brand, which focuses on trading technology and traditional...
Leaving Money on the Table: Busting the Myths of North American Securities Class Action Claims for European Investors
North American securities class actions, particularly within the United States, represent one of the most developed frameworks globally for shareholder redress. Operating on an opt-out basis, this passive participation model automatically includes eligible investors, including those based in Europe, allowing them to obtain compensation without initiating litigation. Despite the fact that billions of dollars are...
Data Infrastructure Faces Stress Test as Private Credit Consolidation Beckons
By Charles Sayac, Managing Director EMEA West, NeoXam. A bout of consolidation unseen in the sector’s history may be on the cards for the private credit space – one that threatens to unearth a host of complex data challenges for the unprepared. A recent Carne Group report revealed almost all (96 per cent) of private debt managers...
Inside the FCA’s Data Factory: How the Regulator Is Re-Composing MiFID, EMIR and SFTR Reporting for a New Era
When the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) talks about innovation in financial markets, it is often interpreted as guidance for firms and RegTech providers. But one of the lesser-recognised realities – made clear in its recent speech on innovation and human expertise – is that the FCA is itself one of the country’s largest consumers of...
How GenAI Is Reshaping Surveillance and Screening: Practical Takeaways for Compliance Leaders
The rapid expansion of Generative AI across financial institutions is often described in terms of technological capability, model performance, and data scale. But for compliance leaders, the more meaningful shift is organisational and operational. The recent A-Team Group webinar on GenAI and LLM case studies for surveillance, screening and scanning brought this into sharp focus....
ClearToken Gains FCA Approval to Tackle Digital Asset Settlement Risk and Unlock Institutional Capital
Digital financial market infrastructure firm ClearToken has secured authorisation from the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to launch its Delivery versus Payment (DvP) net settlement system, a landmark move aimed at building a regulated, institutional-grade backbone for the digital asset market. The new service, named CT Settle, is designed to eliminate the costly pre-funding requirements...
Complex Sanctions Environment Demands Powerful Screening Monitors: SIX Report
Sanctions screening technology has never been more important for financial institutions as new geopolitical and economic threats create the riskiest trading environment in recent history. That is the key finding of a new report, that highlights the need for greater resilience among organisations to the raised threat level faced by the global financial system. In...
Buy & Build: Don’t Hire Picasso to Paint Your Living Room
On this episode of FinTech Focus TV recorded at A-Team Group’s Buy AND Build Summit, Toby Babb of Harrington Starr sits down with Paul Humphrey, CEO and Elliot Banks, CPO of BMLL to discuss how historical market data is reshaping trading technology. From the shift from build vs buy to build on trust, to why...
Watching the Future: The Top 10 Surveillance and Compliance Challenges in Prediction Markets
By Joe Schifano, Global Head of Regulatory Affairs, Eventus. Prediction markets are quickly becoming the next frontier of finance – a new class of markets where people trade on what they believe will happen next. From election results to interest rate fluctuations, these platforms turn collective judgment into tradable data. But as prediction markets move...
AI Emerges as Key Focus for the Buy-Side, Says SIX
Three years ago when Swiss financial data and market infrastructure provider SIX launched its first report together with Crisil Coalition Greenwich on the state of play within the buy-side, the subject of artificial intelligence barely made an appearance. Fast-forward to 2025, and AI dominates the latest report. AI is being deployed within a growing number...