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Asset Control CEO Mark Hepsworth Sets Out Plans for the Company

Two months into his role as CEO of Asset Control, we caught up with Mark Hepsworth to find out more about his plans for the company and its clients, including a proactive approach to developing specific products to meet client needs, offering a more standards-based platform, and strengthening the company with new hires across technology,...

Open Source Symbology and Data are Gaining Traction Based on Real Benefits

Open source identifiers are becoming more mainstream, with many financial institutions adopting them to reduce the complexity of managing multiple identifiers, decrease costs and increase efficiency. The challenges and opportunities of open source symbology and data were discussed during a recent A-Team Group webinar hosted by A-Team editor Sarah Underwood and joined by Richard Robinson,...

Talking Intelligent Trading with Andrew Delaney: AI, Machine Learning and the Intelligent EMS

In our ongoing exploration of how to inject intelligence into today’s super-fast, highly regulated and highly competitive markets, we like to pick the brains of practitioners who’ve been at the forefront of innovation in this narrow space. With our Intelligent Trading Summit in London just a few months away – February 2, to be precise...

General Data Protection Regulation – Start Now to Meet May 2018 Compliance Deadline

General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is on the radar of most financial services firms, but its scale, scope and large penalties for non-compliance mean firms need to start planning and implementing now to meet the May 2018 compliance deadline. The requirements of GDPR and how to build a data protection framework to achieve and evidence...

Data Lineage and Traceability: Using Data to Improve your Data

By Brian Sentance, CEO of Xenomorph Enterprise Data Management (EDM) is, to state the obvious, a data-centric process (the clue is in the name!). But while financial institutions have placed evermore emphasis on ensuring the accuracy of their reference and market data, the need to maintain clearer insights into EDM systems and processes has also...

Beneficial Ownership Data Adds Complexity to Compliant Client Onboarding

Client onboarding and Know Your Customer (KYC) processes continue to be pain points for many banks, but the story does not end here, with increasing regulatory requirements raising additional challenges around beneficial ownership data. The problem of integrating beneficial ownership data with client onboarding and KYC systems was addressed during a recent A-Team Group webinar....

Thomson Reuters And AIM Software – A Marriage in the Making?

This week’s release by Thomson Reuters and AIM Software of an adapter that allows buy-side firms to connect DataScope Select pricing and reference data with AIM’s GAIN enterprise data management (EDM) platform is a bonus for AIM users, but is it also a sign of closer collaboration between the companies, or, perhaps, the beginning of...

Anyone for MiFID III?

By Steve Grob, Director of Group Strategy, Fidessa I was chatting with the Reg folks here at Fidessa Towers yesterday and the spectre of MiFID III came up. Before you all jump off the window ledge, there is no official notion of this yet, but when will the regulators feel that their work really is...

The Opportunities and Challenges of Entity Data Quality

The challenges and opportunities of entity data quality were discussed during a recent A-Team Group webinar entitled ‘Four categories of entity data quality management’. The webinar was sponsored by Kingland Systems, moderated by A-Team editor Sarah Underwood, and joined by Sean Taylor, executive director at Canaccord Genuity Group; Tony Brownlee, a partner at Kingland; and...

Data Management Summit London – Keynotes, Presentations, Panel Sessions, Round Tables and Champagne

Regulation topped the agenda at last week’s A-Team Group Data Management Summit, although it was followed closely by issues including the transformation of data to information, data lineage, utilities, Know Your Customer ( KYC) and client onboarding, data quality, operations models, data stewardship and more! Keynotes and Presentations Introduced by Andrew Delaney, chief content officer...