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Upcoming Webinar: The Vanishing Close: Rethinking Trade Surveillance for Always-On Markets

Date: 2 December 2026 Time: 10:00am ET / 3:00pm London / 4:00pm CET Duration: 50 minutes Global markets are moving steadily towards longer and increasingly continuous trading. Extended-hours initiatives in US equities, the growth of overnight venues and the emergence of new markets and instruments are challenging assumptions that have underpinned trading and surveillance systems...

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HelmGuard Raises $7.3m Seed Round to Replace Compliance Paperwork with AI Agents that Verify Risk Directly

Agentic governance, risk and compliance platform HelmGuard has raised $7.3 million to expand in the US and develop technology that monitors AI agents at runtime. Infinity Ventures and Frontline co-led the seed round, with participation from FinTech Collective, Stage 2 Capital and Entrepreneurs First. HelmGuard plans to establish operations in New York and San Francisco,...

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Digital Assets & Tokenisation Briefing, New York

A-Team Group’s Digital Assets & Tokenisation Briefing assembles an exclusive group of CxOs and senior technology innovators. These leading market practitioners and infrastructure providers are collectively building the digital rails and decentralised networks that will power Wall Street 2.0.

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Alternative Data in Capital Markets Handbook 2026

Alternative data adoption in capital markets has moved into a more disciplined phase. Simply possessing a dataset is no longer a differentiator – the priority now is how data is sourced, synthesised and deployed, and how quickly granular, disaggregated signals can be turned into validated, decision-ready insight. The 2026 edition of the Alternative Data in...