MarketAxess, a multidealer platform for credit products and provider of related data, has hired Iain Baillie to head up its European operations. Baillie joins from Schroder Salomon Smith Barney, where he was managing director and before that head of investment grade secondary trading in Europe.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly being rolled out across financial institutions, being put to work in applications that are transforming everything from back-office data management to front-office trading platforms. The potential for AI to bring further cost-savings and operational gains are limited only by the imaginations of individual organisations. What they all require to achieve...
CUSIP Global Services (CGS) has agreed a deal with data provider Aumni to bring yet more transparency to rapidly growing and economically important private markets. The venerable provider of issuer and asset identifiers will use Aumni’s data, drawn from charter documents for venture capital firms, to create a set of its CUSIP identification codes for...
Now in its 8th year, the Eagle Alpha Alternative Data Conference managed by A-Team Group, is the premier content forum and networking event for investment firms and hedge funds.
Rather than detracting attention away from corporate actions automation projects, the financial crisis appears to have accentuated the importance of the vital nature of this data. Financial institutions are more aware than ever before of the impact that inaccurate corporate actions data has on their bottom lines as a result of the increased focus on...