A-Team Insight Author: sharon
Datactics Builds New Solutions and Business on Basis of Flagship Self-Service Data Quality Platform
Datactics is heading into 2022 with the release of additional solutions on its flagship self-service data quality platform, a strong business performance in 2021, and new hires and offices to match. To find out more about the company’s plans for 2022 and highlights of 2021, we caught up with CEO Stuart Harvey and head of...
How to Source and Manage ESG Disclosure Data to Ensure Compliance
Huge steps have been made in recent years to bring environmental, social and governance (ESG) reporting standards up to the level of reported financial information – but there is still a long way to go. A shortage of company data, a lack of harmonisation on standards, and the sheer volume of data being pumped out...
Exegy Sees ‘Tectonic Shift’ as Sales Jump 50% due to Pandemic Volatility and ‘Retail Revolution’
Following its May 2021 merger with Vela Trading Systems, high-performance market data and trading technology specialist Exegy Inc. says a ‘tectonic shift’ in the marketplace is driving demand for its expanded portfolio of solutions. Among the factors now triggering investments in new data and trading technologies are the leap in volatility sparked by the global...
Dash Launches New Options Order Management System
Dash Financial Technologies, the options trading technology vendor acquired last year by ION, has launched Dash OMS, a redesigned order management system (OMS) built specifically for traders with options-centric workflows. Dash OMS, designed to replace the company’s Blaze product, includes integrated volatility trading functionality, and provides access to all DASH’s routing and algorithmic execution tools,...
Bitbuy, Canada’s First Regulated Crypto Marketplace, Implements Eventus Validus for Surveillance
Last week, Bitbuy Technologies, Canada’s first cryptocurrency trading platform to be regulated as a marketplace, announced that it has implemented the Eventus Validus platform to meet all of its trade surveillance needs. Bitbuy’s compliance department is now using Validus to help ensure its market operates with integrity, by monitoring client trading behaviour and identifying any...
Video: Adaptive CEO’s View on what’s to Come in Trading Technology
Matt Barrett, CEO & Co-Founder of Adaptive Financial Consulting discusses what’s to come in trading technology, how the pandemic has “created a once in a generation rapid acceleration of change in the way people interact in capital markets”, and why he’s looking forward to speaking at TradingTech Summit London on 22 February. If you’d like...
Regulatory Change Management – What Does the Future Hold?
The ability of financial institutions to respond successfully to regulatory change is essential to ensure the integrity of the financial services industry. Yet operating the requisite change management programmes can often prove costly and onerous. On a recent A-Team Group webinar, a group of industry experts shared their unique thoughts on how to approach an...
Diginex-SGS Alliance May Offer Comfort to ESG-Worried Auditors
With nascent regulations stressing the need for ESG disclosures to be included in corporate financial reports, the role of auditors in the process is coming under scrutiny. That was recognised this week with the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) in the US praising a declaration by the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) that recognised...
ESG Data Uses Broaden as Flow of Information Increases
ESG data and scores are growing in importance as companies put it to wider use within their enterprises, beyond regulatory requirements. As well as being the cornerstone of meeting reporting regulations and guiding investors on capital allocation decisions, the data is increasingly being used in risk management and in setting business strategies, according to S&P...
Brexit One Year On: How has the Trading Infrastructure Landscape Changed?
A year on from the UK’s exit from the EU, financial markets across UK and Europe have remained relatively healthy, and trading has continued across all asset classes without any major disruptions. Back in April last year, we reported on how firms were navigating the post-Brexit trading landscape, focusing on the preparations that trading venues...