MCPs in Data Management: Bringing New Order to Private Markets
Financial institutions have begun deploying Model Context Protocols (MCPs) as they have expanded the use of artificial intelligence applications and agents. The technology developed by Anthropic is an open-source contextual layer that helps coordinate models and data, enabling AI applications to connect with a multitude of other platforms and processes. In the first of a...
Date: 23 June 2026 Time: 10:00am ET / 3:00pm London / 4:00pm CET Duration: 50 minutes Alpha depends on more than models, talent and execution. It depends on the quality, consistency and timeliness of the data behind every investment decision. Many hedge funds still operate with fragmented datasets, inconsistent identifiers and manual reconciliation processes that…
Now in its 3rd year, the AI in Capital Markets Summit returns with a focus on the practicalities of onboarding AI enterprise wide for business value creation. Whilst AI offers huge potential to revolutionise capital markets operations many are struggling to move beyond pilot phase to generate substantial value from AI.
AI adoption in capital markets has moved into a more disciplined phase. The priority is now controlled deployment: where AI can be used safely, where it can deliver measurable value, and how outputs can be governed, monitored and evidenced. The 2026 edition of the AI in Capital Markets Handbook examines how AI is being applied…
Financial institutions have begun deploying Model Context Protocols (MCPs) as they have expanded the use of artificial intelligence applications and agents. The technology developed by Anthropic is an open-source contextual layer that helps coordinate models and data, enabling AI applications to connect with a multitude of other platforms and processes. In the first of a...
A panel convened to discuss the engineering of always-on markets spent most of its time on a more basic question: does anyone actually want them? The appetite for round-the-clock equity trading, it turned out, is far harder to find than the conversation about it would suggest. The session at A-Team Group’s ExchangeTech Summit London, entitled...
AI adoption in capital markets has entered a more exacting phase. The early cycle of pilots, productivity tools and isolated use cases is giving way to questions of operating model, governance, data architecture, control evidence and return on investment. A-Team Group’s AI in Capital Markets Summit London 2026 will examine that shift through a practical...
In February 2025, Goldman Sachs told clients the US equity market had become a stock-picker’s market: 74% of the typical S&P 500 stock’s return was being driven by company-specific factors rather than macro forces, against a 20-year average of 58%, and the bank expected that micro-driven environment to persist. Within weeks, sweeping tariff announcements had...
Following the momentum and buzz surrounding prediction markets during the 2024 US elections, event-based trading has rapidly emerged as one of the most dynamic growth areas in capital markets. What was once considered a niche segment has evolved into a global opportunity, attracting established exchanges, everyday participants, fintech innovators, and entrepreneurs seeking to launch new...
In an era of escalating regulatory pressure, financial institutions can leverage artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models (LLMs) to transform compliance from a cost burden into a strategic competitive advantage. These technologies, applied to sophisticated monitoring systems, generate structured, high-quality data at scale, converting what was once a static compliance archive into a source...
The buy-side trading desk of the future is asset-agnostic and AI-augmented. The defining characteristic is an architecture where clean, joined-up workflows across all products allow an agentic overlay to function reliably. For investment firms, the priority is to establish these common foundational layers now; firms that remain trapped in siloed, asset-specific stacks will find that...
Bond marketplace OpenYield has closed a Series A funding round of over $6 million, led by LeveL Markets with participation from Draper Associates, Canapi Ventures, and Clocktower Ventures. Launched in 2024 as an alternative trading system (ATS), OpenYield provides an automated, equity-like trading experience for fixed income. To date, the platform has executed nearly $2…
STP Investment Services (STP) has been officially designated as the Premier Partner for Fund Services by Lightspeed Data Solutions. This formalises a commercial relationship that began in 2019, positioning STP as the preferred operational partner for investment firms using the Lightspeed Trade Data Management System (TDMS) platform. The two firms already share 18 investment managers…
Xceptor, the data automation specialist for capital markets, has introduced two new features, AI Reconciliation Rule Builder and Live Tester, to simplify the creation and validation of reconciliation logic. Initially accessible through the Xceptor Reconciliations SaaS platform, these tools use artificial intelligence alongside proprietary evaluation logic to automatically suggest matching and comparison rules from sample…
Aiviq, the client data platform for the investment management industry, has launched an AI-powered Native App on the Snowflake Marketplace. The application deepens the integration between the two firms, allowing joint customers to securely access Aiviq datasets, including assets under management (AUM), flow, and net revenue data, directly within their Snowflake environments. The app utilises…
Clearstream, the post-trade business of Deutsche Börse Group, has partnered with alternative investment manager Ares Management Corporation to add Ares’ private market strategies to its fund platform. The collaboration aims to simplify the investment process for fund distributors, allowing them to access private market investments with the same operational efficiency as traditional mutual funds. For…
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has granted recognition to Intercontinental Exchange’s (ICE) Ice Data Indices as a third-country benchmark administrator. This recognition allows one hundred climate transition and Paris-aligned benchmarks offered by the administrator to remain available for use by supervised entities in the European Union. The fixed income benchmarks incorporate ESG screening…
EXL has integrated the Build Your Own Transaction Foundation Model developer example from NVIDIA into its artificial intelligence and analytics offerings, enabling financial institutions to build and deploy transaction intelligence applications using their own data. The application uses a foundation model designed to analyse billions of transaction events, such as payments, transfers and behaviour signals….
ESG, sustainability and compliance specialist Diginex has integrated Risk-to-Remedy as an end-to-end supply chain due diligence solution. The framework combines worker-level evidence, prioritised remediation and regulator-ready reporting to verify company declarations. It builds on the technologies of Lumen for risk assessment and Apprise for worker engagement, alongside the acquired expertise of The Remedy Project in…
Taskize has partnered with Global Relay to add API-based communications archiving to its investment operations collaboration platform, supporting stronger evidence of cross-firm resolution workflows. The integration uses the Global Relay Open Connector API to capture activity within Taskize Bubbles, the platform’s shared spaces for resolving operational issues between firms. The archive can record transcripts, metadata,…
Zema Global and Natural Gas Intelligence (NGI) have announced an enhanced data partnership designed to provide energy market participants with expanded natural gas pricing and flow data. Building on an existing seven-year relationship, the collaboration integrates NGI’s extensive datasets into Zema Global’s Decisioning Infrastructure to support curve analytics, portfolio valuation, trading, and risk management in…
A new market readiness survey by The ValueExchange shows that 83% of UK firms are actively preparing for the transition to a T+1 (one-day) trade settlement cycle, an increase from 66% in the third quarter of 2025. It also places the UK ahead of the US timeline, where only 67% of firms were engaged at…
Clearwater Analytics has introduced three AI-enabled products built on its investment data platform, which supports more than $10 trillion in global assets. The new solutions – Clearwater Compass, Total Portfolio Oversight, and Fund Analytics – expand the company’s platform across institutional operations, risk management, and private markets workflows. They aim to automate complex tasks and…
The FIX Trading Community has launched its new Recommended Practices for Algorithm Testing and Certification. The guidelines introduce standardised, electronic mechanisms that enable capital markets firms to test, certify, and share algorithmic trading compliance data seamlessly with counterparties and regulators. By establishing uniform workflows and message descriptions, the framework ensures algorithm certificates contain precise, meaningful…
Marathon Asset Management, the London-based specialist equity manager overseeing more than USD 40 billion in assets, has consolidated its front-to-back investment operations onto the SimCorp One platform. This transition allows the firm to retire its legacy systems and establish a single, unified data layer across its entire business. The implementation extends an ongoing partnership between…
Exegy has expanded its real-time consolidated market data feed, Axiom, to include key Middle Eastern exchanges. The update introduces coverage for markets in Saudi Arabia (TASI), Qatar (QSE), Kuwait (KSE), Abu Dhabi (ADX), and Dubai (DFM). This data is delivered with low latency via Exegy’s London Points of Presence (PoP) at the Equinix LD4 and…
Genesis Global has announced five senior leadership promotions to support increasing client demand for efficient, compliant software delivery in capital markets. The appointments are strategically positioned to help financial institutions integrate artificial intelligence into their development processes. By combining AI capabilities with a library of established capital markets workflows and components, the Genesis platform ensures…
Capital markets data and analytics provider BMLL has appointed Michael Chiappinelli as Chief Revenue Officer. Based in the United States, Chiappinelli will lead the company’s international commercial strategy and global sales function, reporting directly to Chief Executive Officer Paul Humphrey as part of the executive management team. His appointment follows the company’s acquisition by Nordic…
Eventus, provider of trade surveillance and financial risk solutions, has announced two major additions to its leadership team. Eric Litz has been appointed as Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and Sarah-Jane McColl joins as Chief Customer Officer (CCO). Both executives report directly to CEO Cameron Routh as part of the company’s focus on enhancing client compliance…
End-to-end regulatory operating system FinregE has appointed Paul Lyon as chief marketing and communications officer, creating a new executive role as the company looks to sharpen its market positioning during a period of growth. Based in London, Lyon will report to Rohini Gupta, chief executive officer, and lead FinregE’s communications, analyst relations, brand, marketing and…
Corlytics has appointed Lisa Miles-Heal as chief executive officer, effective June, as the Verdane-backed regulatory intelligence firm prepares for its next phase of international growth. Miles-Heal brings nearly two decades of executive experience in technology-led businesses. Most recently, she oversaw the transition of accounting compliance company Silverfin from a founder-led business into a Visma group…
Galytix, an AI firm for financial institutions, has hired former Quantexa leader Roshni Patel as chief growth officer, charged with accelerating global expansion. Patel previously worked at Quantexa as global head of risk solutions, following more than 20 years at KPMG, Lloyds Banking Group and Moody’s Analytics. As chief growth officer, he will manage global…
Kalshi has appointed Sudhir Jain as chief compliance officer and head of regulatory affairs, adding derivatives-market supervisory experience as the prediction-market operator expands its institutional ambitions and faces a more contested regulatory environment. Jain joins from Patomak Global Partners, where he worked on derivatives, compliance and risk-management advisory matters after five years at the National…
Muinmos has appointed financial services entrepreneur Paul Ford as an investor and advisor to the Board, adding operational risk, RegTech and scaling experience as the firm looks to build out its AI-led compliance capabilities. Ford brings more than 25 years’ financial services and operational experience. He was Founder and CEO of Acin, the London-based RegTech…
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has sued the State of Wisconsin after the state brought civil actions against Kalshi, Polymarket, Crypto.com, Robinhood and Coinbase over prediction market activity. The action, filed on 28 April 2026, extends a widening federal-state dispute over the regulatory treatment of event contracts. The CFTC argues that Congress gave the…
FIS is working with Anthropic to bring agentic AI into banking operations, starting with a Financial Crimes AI Agent designed to support anti-money laundering investigations. The agent is intended to assemble evidence from bank systems, evaluate activity against known typologies and surface higher-risk cases for investigator review, with BMO and Amalgamated Bank among the first…
Eventus has appointed Cameron Routh as chief executive officer, placing a financial technology executive with more than two decades of experience in software and data businesses at the head of the trade surveillance and financial risk technology provider. Routh succeeds founder Travis Schwab, who has led Eventus for 11 years and overseen the development of…
Eventus, a global provider of trade surveillance and financial risk solutions, has announced the appointment of Cameron Routh as its new Chief Executive Officer. The transition follows a majority investment in the company by Terminus Capital Partners (TCP), a private equity firm specialising in B2B AI and software. Routh succeeds founder Travis Schwab, who led…
Zema Global, the data and analytics provider for the energy, commodities, and financial sectors, has announced three senior executive appointments to its leadership team. Tina Morris joins as Chief Operating Officer to oversee operational excellence and the integration of AI-driven efficiencies. Frederick Winston has been appointed Chief Financial Officer to manage strategic scaling, while Javed…
Xceptor has appointed former Pershing and Vanguard leader Sareena Dalla Brookshire to the newly created position of chief product officer to help the capital markets data automation specialist advance its artificial intelligence product programme. Dalla Brookshire, who has almost two decades of experience working in capital markets, is based in New York and will focus…
SOLVE, a provider of pre-trade data and predictive pricing for fixed income markets, has promoted Michael Pellerito to the role of Senior Vice President of Innovation. This appointment underscores the company’s commitment to integrating artificial intelligence and machine learning (AIML) into its product roadmap. Pellerito is tasked with accelerating the development of AI-driven capabilities to…
We are thrilled to unveil the winners of the 2026 A-Team Innovation Awards. These awards celebrate successful projects within financial institutions (both with vendor support and without) across the financial enterprise.
Congratulations go out to this year’s RegTech Insight Awards Europe 2026 winners. These awards recognise excellence in trading solutions and services for capital markets and focus on vendors providing exceptional trading infrastructure, trading technology, and data solutions.
Voting in the 8th annual TradingTech Insight Awards USA is now closed. These awards recognise excellence in trading solutions and services for capital markets and focus on vendors providing exceptional trading infrastructure, trading technology, and data solutions.
