Xcitek has appointed Neil Sheppard as chief operating officer with responsibility for managing the company’s corporate actions software XSP in Europe, in support of the European growth strategy. Prior to joining Xcitek, Sheppard has held a variety of project management, product and business development roles in corporate actions at Magenta One, UBS, Morgan Stanley, Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, ABN Amro Equities and Citibank.
Data lineage is a regulatory and internal requirement with potential to deliver significant operational and business benefits, but financial institutions can find it difficult to implement and complex to maintain as systems and regulatory requirements themselves, change quickly. The importance of understanding where the true source of the data is coming from, where the data...
Investment managers must take a fresh approach to data management, stressing trusted partnerships with outside expertise over traditional outsourcing models, as they seek to adapt to a rapidly changing economic landscape, a report has urged. The binary build-versus-buy strategy that has been the basis of innovation adoption for decades has been upended by advances in...
A-Team Group, organisers of the TradingTech Summits, are pleased to announce the inaugural ExchangeTech Summit London on May 14th 2026. This dedicated forum brings together operators of exchanges, alternative execution venues and digital asset platforms with the ecosystem of vendors driving the future of matching engines, surveillance and market access.
Want to get a handle on Solvency II and what it means for data management? Need to make sure you have all the bases covered for the looming January 2016 deadline? Our Solvency II Data Management Handbook is now available for free download to help you. This Handbook is the ultimate guide to all things...
