The Financial Information Services Division (FISD) of the Software & Information Industry Association has appointed Paula Hardy as program director. Joining FISD after 13 years at Lehman Brothers, where she was most recently vice president for contracts and vendor management, Hardy started at FISD on January 8 and is based in Washington, DC.
The buy-side faced a barrage of regulation in 2020 and is now under pressure to make post-Brexit adjustments and complete LIBOR transition by the end of 2021. To ensure compliance and ease the burden of in-house data management, many firms turned to outsourcing and managed services. But there is more to come, as buy-side firms...
By Andrew Delaney, President, A-Team Group. We hear it time and time again – at our conferences, on our roundtables and from our advisory boards: our beloved financial data and technology industry is suffering from an acute skills shortage. Flip to the other side of the coin, and employers and parents alike fret about the...
A-Team Group’s Digital Assets & Tokenisation Summit spotlights how global financial leaders are rapidly embracing programmable tokenised assets and DLT networks to achieve real-time, 24/7 peer-to-peer transactions.
They may be complex and burdened with a bad reputation at the moment, but derivatives are here to stay. Although Bank for International Settlements figures indicate that derivatives trading is down for the first time in 10 years, the asset class has been strongly defended by the banking and brokerage community over the last few...