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Bank of England Senior Advisor Sholthana Begum Moves to FCA as Data Strategy Lead
Sholthana Begum, senior advisor and head of division at the Bank of England, and a popular A-Team Group Summit speaker, has left the bank after a 16-year career. Moving on, she will join the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) as head of the data and data strategy department. Begum joined the Bank of England in 2006...
M&G Investments Selects Bloomberg as Sanctions Data Provider
M&G Investments has selected Bloomberg as its sanctions data provider to support compliance decision-making, as well as portfolio and risk management. The deal extends Bloomberg’s relationship with M&G Investments, which previously adopted all the services offered by Bloomberg Data Management Services. Using Bloomberg’s sanctions data solution, M&G Investments will have access to the data vendor’s...
Xenomorph Clocks Up Client Implementation at RA Capital
Xenomorph has clocked up a new client implementation with RA Capital, and is working with existing clients on business efficiencies including the hard and soft costs of vendor data. Data Management Insight caught up with Xenomorph president of the Americas, Naj Alavi, to talk about RA Capital and the company’s ongoing work. RA Capital, a...
Plenitude Secures Strategic Investment from Private Equity Firm GCP
Financial crime and compliance specialist Plenitude has secured a strategic investment from Growth Capital Partners (GCP), a private equity firm focused on investing in growth companies in the technology and services sectors. The investment will support the further build-out of new software capabilities and accelerate Plenitude’s expansion plans including establishing a presence in the Asia-Pacific region....
The Long and Winding Regulatory Road to MiCA
By Javier Hernani, Head Securities Services, SIX. As we witness a collapse in cryptocurrencies, it is clear nowhere is regulation needed more than in the burgeoning crypto-asset marketplace. Especially in the digital asset class with the largest market capitalisation (estimated to be in the region of $2.3 trillion) – cryptocurrencies. Dominated by the likes of...
Climate Risk Climbs Up Executives Worry List but Data Gaps Remain a Challenge
Financial services firms and corporates are increasingly incorporating climate risk into their risk management frameworks, but a lack of data is hampering the process. A survey by Bloomberg found that almost nine in 10 senior executives polled said they had begun aligning their risk management processes with climate change. Nevertheless, only 5 per cent of the people questioned...
Good Governance the Best Foundation for a Strong ESG Strategy, Webinar Told
Data is essential for financial institutions seeking to demonstrate to investors, customers and regulators that they are behaving sustainably. But that can’t happen until the data is properly managed and governed, a panel of experts told an A-Team ESG Insight webinar. While there are challenges to getting that right, it’s essential that firms pay special attention to...
Back to Basics – The Fundamental Approach for Digitising Capital Markets
By Scott Eaton, CEO, Nivaura. News cycles in capital markets are fixated on the automation of the fixed-income market. The focus is almost exclusively focused on the secondary market as major market participants are both evolving their own offering while simultaneously swatting off the competitors that are kicking the evolution into high-gear. AI, machine-learning, smart-data,...
Britain’s Innovative Aim to be a Leader in Digital Securities, Not Just Crypto
Charlie Berman, Co Founder and CEO of agora. The British government announced last month the UK’s intention to become a global hub for cryptocurrency by seizing on what it sees as a historic opportunity. A senior civil servant said it means an intention to ‘learn quickly’ and ‘harness the potential of blockchain’. As John Glenn,...
A-Team Innovation Briefing Discusses Data Mesh, Transition to Cloud, Use of AI
A-Team Group’s Innovation Briefing series got off to a great start in London last week with an event dedicated to innovation in cloud. The briefing included practitioner interviews, provided insight into how to modernise data infrastructure, and reviewed technologies driving change. The case for data mesh Kicking off the briefing, and raising several delegate questions,...