Industry participants last month debated issues surrounding standardization of corporate actions data at an STP event in London. The debate focused on how to get issuers to adopt the ISO 15022 standard format for corporate actions messages. Among the participants were representatives of Swift, the London Stock Exchange and RDUG.
As rising geopolitical uncertainty prompts an intensification in the complexity and volume of global economic and financial sanctions, banks and financial institutions are faced with a daunting set of new compliance challenges. The risk of inadvertently engaging with sanctioned securities has never been higher and the penalties for doing so are harsh. Traditional sanctions screening...
Recent stock market losses among software providers have prompted some analysts to predict a coming “SaaS-pocalypse” as software companies are threatened by artificial intelligence that can write code and build software quickly and cheaply. The doomsayers may be premature, however. While AI undoubtedly has the ability to supplant some of those firms, it also presents...
Now in its 9th 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.
Sourcing entity data and ensuring efficient and effective entity data management is a challenge for many financial institutions as volumes of data rise, more regulations require entity data in reporting, and the fight again financial crime is escalated by bad actors using increasingly sophisticated techniques to attack processes and systems. That said, based on best...
