Eddie Cogan, Partner, Head of eComms Surveillance at ACA Group discusses the evolution of market surveillance, business and operational challenges of market abuse and how to overcome them, the latest technologies available and advice for practitioners working on market surveillance.
The EU’s Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) came into force a year ago, and is reshaping how asset managers, asset owners and fund service providers think about operational risk. While DORA’s focus is squarely on ICT resilience and third-party dependencies, its implications extend deep into core operational processes that are critical to market integrity, investor...
When ESMA convened its first ‘Data Day’ on 2 December 2025, the agenda title – “Burden reduction in the digitalisation era” – captured a shift that has been building across Europe’s regulatory landscape for several years. While markets been advancing shared data models and machine-executable reporting logic through initiatives such as the Common Domain Model...
Now in its 15th year the Data Management Summit NYC brings together the North American data management community to explore how data strategy is evolving to drive business outcomes and speed to market in changing times.
After initial hesitancy, interest in digital assets from institutional market participants has grown over the past three to four years. Early focus inevitably centred on the market opportunities presented by bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. But this has evolved into a broad acceptance of a potentially meaningful role for digital assets in institutional markets. It’s now...
