Asset Control has appointed John Mitchell as North American sales director based in New York. Mitchell will be responsible for generating new business and expanding Asset Control’s regional presence. Previously, Mitchell was vice president of sales at Fortent, provider of risk and compliance solutions, and before that he was vice president of global sales and marketing at Bradmark Technologies, a database management software company.
Open source symbology initiatives that offer free access to unique identifiers designed to help financial institutions manage information from financial instruments to events and people are emerging in capital markets. Their aim is to overcome the complexity of managing multiple vendor and proprietary identifiers, and deliver a single open identifier set that can simplify data...
By Andrew Delaney, President, A-Team Group. We hear it time and time again – at our conferences, on our roundtables and from our advisory boards: our beloved financial data and technology industry is suffering from an acute skills shortage. Flip to the other side of the coin, and employers and parents alike fret about the...
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.
Despite the setback of the FTX collapse, institutional interest in digital assets has grown markedly in the past 12 months, with firms of all sizes now acknowledging participation in some form. While as recently as a year ago, institutional trading firms were taking a cautious stance toward their use, the acceptance of tokenisation, stablecoins, and...