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2022 – The Year of Transition, Turning Data Management Theories into Practical Solutions
Welcome to Data Management Insight 2022 and some of the hot topics we will be exploring as capital markets participants continue to mainstream data as a resource to improve business value, extend digitalisation, drive up efficiencies, foster innovation, and last but not least, improve regulatory compliance processes. It will not all be plain sailing, however,...
Can Prime Brokerage Open the Door to Institutional Access to Digital Assets?
By Martha Reyes, Head of Research, Bequant. It’s surprising how crypto markets have been repeating the same evolutionary cycles of infrastructure building as the traditional markets. As more established investors enter the crypto space, digital asset prime brokers are rising to the challenge to offer technology-driven solutions to many of the same challenges faced by...
FactSet to Acquire CUSIP Global Services as S&P Global Facilitates Merger with IHS Markit
The holidays brought good news for CUSIP Global Services (CGS) with FactSet making a definitive agreement to acquire the company from S&P Global in a cash deal valued at $1.925 billion. Late last year, the European Commission said S&P Global would have to divest CGS to gain regulatory approval for its planned $44 billion merger...
Intelligent Machine Readable News – How to Get a Signal from the Noise
Intelligent machine readable news is a powerful tool in the arsenal of trading firms seeking competitive advantage. It offers opportunities to turn unstructured data into actionable insight that can be used to uncover market trends, identify correlations and evaluate sentiment, but also raises challenges such as information sourcing, timing and contextualisation. A recent A-Team Group...
Moody’s Analytics Wins A-Team Group Data Management Insight Award 2021 for Best Proposition for AI and Machine Learning
This blog is sponsored by Moody’s Analytics. Congratulations to Sergio Gago Huerta, Managing Director of Product Management at Moody’s Analytics, and his team on winning A-Team Group’s Data Management Insight Award 2021 for Best Proposition for AI and Machine Learning. A-Team Group: What challenges does your winning data management solution address? Sergio: Our Moody’s Analytics...
Wilshire Forms Digital Asset Advisory Group
Global investment technology and advisory company Wilshire has launched the Wilshire Digital Asset Advisory Group, to be chaired by Blythe Masters, founding partner at Motive Partners and ex-CEO of Digital Asset Holdings. The advisory group aims to bring together the world’s top digital asset practitioners to capture their collective perspectives and insights. The advisory group’s...
Ideal and Broadway Partner to Deliver Trading Analytics for Fixed Income
Analytics and decision support intelligence firm Ideal has partnered with front-office solutions vendor Broadway Technology, to deliver performance analytics and actionable insights to fixed income traders within Broadway’s secure environment. The partnership marks the latest move from Broadway to provide its clients with best-of-breed solutions, following the spin-off its fixed income business from ION last...
A-Team Webinar: Opportunities of New Approaches to Electronic Trading
In today’s capital markets environment, front-office traders face a number of challenges, not least of which are high costs, shrinking margins, increased regulatory oversight, and a multiplicity of siloed, often-legacy applications on the trading desk that can hamper workflows. Within this environment, firms need to be able to rapidly adapt: to the evolving needs of...
IBA Pulls Carbon Data from the Air
Aviation data and advisory consultancy IBA is providing financial institutions and aviation market participants with the data and tools needed to help the industry reach net zero. The Surrey-based organisation is the first aviation-focused external reviewer aligned with Guidelines for Green, Social, Sustainability and Sustainability-Linked Bonds External Reviews published by the International Capital Market Association...
Vendor Strategy: Orenda Sifts Through Funny Cat Videos For ESG Data Gold
The sustainability movement that is transforming financial services was kick-started by growing public outrage at the impact of human activities on the natural world. In the days before the internet, those feelings were articulated in protests, newspaper articles, books and a huge variety of media and public pulpits. Today, that disparate global forum has coalesced...