A-Team Insight Author: sharon
Data – the Answer to Meeting Sanctions Screening Challenges Exposed by Ukraine War
The war in Ukraine has highlighted not only the importance of having effective sanctions screening and control processes in place, but also the compliance challenges of modern sanctions regimes. Within the space of days, far-reaching restrictions were placed on individuals, organisations, companies and states covering large parts of the Russian economy and authorities, with the...
Outra Offers Data Science as a Service
Outra, a data science and predictive analytics company dedicated to delivering insight from vast amounts of data, is making its way into the financial services sector and will, no doubt, make further progress following the appointment of Peter Jackson, former group director of data science at Legal & General and CDO at Legal & General...
Arteria AI Plans Global Growth Acceleration of Digital Documentation Solution Following Strategic Investment
Arteria AI is planning to accelerate global growth of its enterprise digital documentation software following strategic investments from Citi SPRINT (Spread Products Investment Technologies), the strategic investing arm of the bank’s Global Spread Products division, and the Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC). Citi and BDC Capital join investors in Arteria AI including Information Venture...
Kaiko Launches Decentralised Exchange Liquidity Pool Data Feed
Cryptocurrency data provider Kaiko has launched a new decentralised exchange (DEX) liquidity pool data feed, covering the Uniswap, SushiSwap, Curve Finance and Balancer markets. Building on the launch of Kaiko’s DEX data feed in November 2021, which provides trade data for the same four DEX exchanges, Kaiko will now display comprehensive liquidity data from those...
A-Team’s TradingTech Insight Briefing Returns to New York June 16
Following our recent highly successful TradingTech Summit in London, A-Team’s TradingTech Insight Briefing returns to New York on June 16, after a two-year hiatus due to the Covid pandemic. As always, industry practitioners will gather in person to discuss the latest trends, challenges and innovations in trading technology, and network with their peers at the...
Polymer Capital Management makes strategic data partnership with Bloomberg
Multi-manager hedge fund Polymer Capital Management has made a long-term strategic data and technology partnership with Bloomberg to accelerate growth. Polymer Capital is an Asian-focused multi-manager platform located across six offices in Asia-Pacific, and will use Bloomberg’s data and technology solutions including the firm’s real-time market data feed, B-PIPE; its market-driven credit worthiness indicator, MIPD;...
ACA Completes Foreside Merger to Form One of Largest GRC Platforms
GRC platform operator ACA Group has completed its merger with Foreside Financial Group, creating one of the world’s most extensive governance, risk and compliance offerings. The merger combines ACA’s regulatory compliance, cybersecurity, ESG and performance capabilities with Foreside’s distribution and broker-dealer capabilities to create a one-stop shop for investment firms. ACA’s business model involves supplementing its...
New Perspectives on ESG Challenges and Opportunities to be Debated at A-Team New York Briefing
Fresh from the success of A-Team’s inaugural ESG Data and Tech Summit London earlier this month, experts and market participants are now looking to New York where we will be hosting the first ESG Data Management Briefing. A host of high-level speakers from international banks, asset managers and data vendors will gather on June 16...
AllianceBernstein Adopts Glue42 to Boost Trader Productivity
AllianceBernstein has turned to desktop integration specialist Glue42 to improve its trader interface with the aim of improving the user experience and boosting productivity. AB engaged Glue42 to support and organise its trader interface into a collection of micro applications that form a cohesive workflow. This approach will enable AB’s engineers build a framework that...
LSEG Signs Agreement to Acquire MayStreet
In a further sign of intent to grow its Enterprise Data Solutions business following last year’s acquisition of Refinitiv, London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) has signed an agreement to acquire MayStreet, a US-based market data solutions vendor, for an undisclosed sum, understood to be in the region of £400 million. MayStreet provides low-latency technology and...