A-Team Insight Author: Jeri-Anne McKeon
TradingTech Briefing New York: Examining the Latest in Trading Technology
The TradingTech Briefing New York, an eagerly awaited event in the financial technology space, is scheduled for the afternoon of 8th June 2023 at Meet Hospitality, 1166 Avenue of the Americas, New York. The event will bring together a diverse group of thought leaders, technology innovators, and industry insiders to discuss the cutting-edge trends and...
ESG Insight Webinar Report: A Bumpy Regulatory Road Ahead but Riches Will Follow
ESG has placed companies within a “chaotic” new world of regulatory responsibility but getting sustainability right through data and technology will reward them and their investors with healthier bottom lines and larger returns. That was the message that rang loud and clear from A-Team Group ESG Insight’s first expert-led ESG webinar of the year, held this...
DLT Has Potential to Transform Capital Markets, Says Joint Report by GFMA and Others
A new report co-authored by the Global Financial Markets Association (GFMA), Boston Consulting Group (BCG), Clifford Chance, and Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, underscores the transformative potential of Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) for capital markets. The report encourages market participants to actively mould the future application of DLT and urges policymakers to provide more precise...
ESG Data and Tech Summit Report: The Art of Getting Data Right
ESG has become an integral, complex part of financial institutions’ workflows, making it crucial that they get their data and technology provisions right. But in this fast-changing part of the data ecosystem, what constitutes “right” isn’t easy to define. At A-Team Group’s second ESG Data and Tech Summit London last week, leading practitioners from the...
Video: RepRisk’s Maryse Gordon Discusses Approaches to ESG Risk Assessment
In this video, Maryse Gordon, partnerships and business development manager at RepRisk, an ESG data science firm combining machine learning and human intelligence to identify ESG risks, talks to Sarah Underwood, an editor at A-Team Group, at A-Team’s recent ESG Data & Tech Summit London. The discussion spans the challenges of ESG data, the need...
Crux Software-as-a-Service Platform Automates Integration of External Data
Crux, provider of a data integration, transformation, and observability solution, has released Crux External Data Platform, a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offering designed to allow organisations to onboard thousands of external datasets directly from vendors into internal data systems and drive better, faster decisions. Crux builds data pipelines at scale, allowing enterprises to ingest any custom data...
Beeks Group Secures OneChronos Contract for High-Performance ATS
In a competitive bid, OneChronos has selected Beeks Group, the cloud computing, connectivity and analytics provider for financial markets, to provide high-performance compute and a private environment for its new Alternative Trading System (ATS), which aims to bridge the widening gap between the functionalities of US Equities trading venues and the requirements of traders. OneChronos...
Regulatory Environment for Investment Research Facing Uncertainty, Substantive Study Says
Investment research provision in the US, Europe and the UK is facing more uncertainty as the market awaits significant changes to the regulatory landscape, according to a study of the current state of broker research pricing, supply and market share by Substantive Research. According to Substantive, MiFID II’s implementation in 2018 increased the focus on...
ING Deploys Quantexa for KYC, AML Investigations
Dutch bank ING Group is rolling out Quantexa’s analytics platform to strengthen risk detection and investigative capabilities in support of its global KYC and AML programmes. ING’s investigative teams will use Quantexa’s AI and advanced graph analytics capabilities to develop more effective and efficient KYC and AML measures, by connecting customers and counterparties in order...
Strategy and Tools for Tracking Licensed Data
By Neil Sandle, Head of Product Management, Alveo. Indices are tools used to track how asset classes, industry sectors, market segments, and a host of other physical and virtual sets of data perform over time. Leading examples can be found in the realm of financial services, in particular with stock markets where the FTSE 100,...