Industry Cautiously Backs EU Market Reform Ambitions, But Warns Execution Risks Loom Large
A panel at A-Team’s Group’s TradingTech Summit London 2026 offered a broadly supportive but clear-eyed assessment of the EU’s Savings and Investment Union (SIU) package, welcoming the shift toward a competitiveness agenda but warning the reforms risk falling short without bolder action on post-trade interoperability, data quality and regulatory simplification. The session, “The Evolution of...
Embrace the Threat: How Software Firms Can Head Off ‘SaaS-pocalypse’
Recent stock market losses among software providers have prompted some analysts to predict a coming “SaaS-pocalypse” as software companies are threatened by artificial intelligence that can write code and build software quickly and cheaply. The doomsayers may be premature, however. While AI undoubtedly has the ability to supplant some of those firms, it also presents...
When AI Meets SEC Filings: Where LLMs Deliver, Where They Don’t, and Why the Plumbing Matters
Can LLMs reliably do what financial analysts do? Compare peers, track firms over time, and spot what’s changed? A panel at the recent A-Team Group/Eagle Alpha Alternative Data Conference New York explored the question, and new research from Goldman Sachs and Yale suggests the answer is more nuanced than the industry assumes. The panel session...
From Pilots to Production: Capital Markets Firms Confront the Real Challenge of Scaling AI in Trading Workflows
Across capital markets, AI pilots are proliferating – on trading desks, in compliance functions, within data teams. The proof-of-concept phase has, for many firms, delivered enough evidence of value to settle the strategic debate. What remains stubbornly unresolved is the operational question: how to translate a growing patchwork of departmental experiments into scalable, production-grade capability....
Axiory.ai Launches AI Agent Trading Platform Built on Model Context Protocol
Axiory.ai, a platform developed by the global brokerage Axiory in partnership with Purple Technology, has launched an infrastructure layer designed to allow AI agents to access and trade across multi-asset CFD markets through a single standardised environment. The platform is built on Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP), the open standard for connecting AI systems to...
S&P Global Bets on Agent-Native Architecture as Capital IQ Pro Consolidation Accelerates
S&P Global’s March announcement of enhancements to its Capital IQ Pro platform covers a lot of ground: new datasets across fixed income, biopharma and private markets, the integration of two AI acquisitions, and expanded generative AI capabilities. Taken individually, each is a solid incremental update. But taken together, they point to something more structurally significant,...
Blackwired’s ThirdWatch: Powering Operational Resilience with Cyber Intelligence
For years, financial institutions have invested heavily in cyber defences designed to protect their own perimeters. Firewalls hardened, endpoints secured, and internal monitoring intensified. But many of the most disruptive recent incidents have propagated through third-party providers, software supply chains, or shared infrastructure. They are aimed at the firms banks depend on. The exploitation of...
Data Platform Modernisation: Why The Hardest Problems Are No Longer Technical
Capital markets firms pursuing data platform modernisation have largely solved the technical challenges of compute and storage, but the organisational, governance and architectural decisions surrounding those platforms remain stubbornly difficult, according to practitioners from Northern Trust, RBC Wealth Management and LSEG, speaking at a recent A-Team Group webinar entitled Data platform modernisation: Best practice approaches...
Experts to Take Stock of Data Silos and Lineage: DMS London Preview
Data fragmentation and lineage are two critical themes within data management that are intrinsically linked. Good data lineage can help overcome the impediments imposed by siloed data because it is an important aid in optimising data integration and utility. Both will be examined in detail by experts at A-Team Group’s 16th annual Data Management Summit...
Governance to be Scrutinised at Inaugural AI in Data Management Summit NYC
Ensuring artificial intelligence deployments are securely governed without stymieing their potential is a delicate balancing act. It requires carefully drawn policies, frameworks and processes. As deployment of the technology expands and its capabilities and complexity multiply, the governance structure must adapt and evolve. How to get this right is among the most important topics swirling...