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.
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...
For futures commission merchants, clearing members, proprietary trading firms, and banks with material futures and options exposure, the transition of CFTC Part 17 Large Trader Reporting to FIX Markup Language (FIXML) is a test of data management maturity. This change directly affects firms responsible for aggregating, validating, and submitting large trader position data, often across...
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.
The US corporate actions market has long been characterised as paper-based and manually intensive, but it seems that much progress is being made of late to tackle the lack of automation due to the introduction of four little letters: XBRL. According to a survey by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) and standards...
