Morgan Stanley plans to acquire Berkeley, Calif.-based risk modeling vendor Barra Inc. and merge it into its Morgan Stanley Capital International (MSCI) index business. Morgan Stanley will pay $41 per share in the cash deal. MSCI, well known in Europe and especially Asia, recently turned its attentions to the U.S. marketplace, where it is seeking to expand in a marketplace dominated by the Russell and Standard & Poor’s index businesses.
Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) data management solutions go hand-in-hand with cloud technology, delivering not only SaaS benefits of agility, a reduced on-premise footprint and access to third-party expertise, but also the fast data delivery, productivity and efficiency gains provided by the cloud. This webinar will focus on the essentials of SaaS data management, including practical guidance on...
Financial institutions are undergoing digital transformations that are seeing them harness the full potential of the huge volumes of data they generate. Importantly, to do that they are deploying the technologies that are already defining our era – artificial intelligence (AI) and the cloud. From streamlining back-office processes to informing front-office decision making, and from...
Now in its 14th year, the Data Management Summit (DMS) in London brings together the European capital markets enterprise data management community, to explore how data strategy is evolving to drive business outcomes and speed to market in changing times.
Welcome to the eleventh edition of A-Team Group’s Regulatory Data Handbook, a popular publication that covers new regulations in capital markets, tracks regulatory change, and provides advice on the data, data management and implementation requirements of more than 30 regulations across UK, European, US and Asia-Pacific capital markets. This edition of the handbook includes new...