A-Team Insight Author: sharon
Webinar: Ensuring Compliance with Fit and Proper Requirements: Best Practices and Innovations
Fit and Proper requirements are a cornerstone of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) Senior Managers and Certification Regime (SMCR) and other global accountability frameworks. For financial institutions, these regulations are not merely a compliance check—they demand ongoing assessments of employees’ honesty, integrity, competence, and financial soundness. Yet, implementing these requirements effectively is often challenging. The...
The Promise of Automation and the Perils of Standing Still
By Roger Golesworthy, Trading Director, Infront. For firms all over the UK in the trading business, speed and efficiency are essential. These set the base for providing clients with better returns. Behind the curtain, though, firms have a patchwork of systems and software that sit in-between humans and financial instruments. Systems which must meet a...
What to Expect at A-Team Group’s Second Buy AND Build Summit
On September 19th, Buy AND Build: The Future of Capital Markets Technology returns to London at the Marriott Hotel, Canary Wharf for its second year. This A-Team Group event offers a timely exploration of how financial institutions and technology providers can collaborate more effectively to modernise trading platforms and drive innovation. As firms increasingly transition...
Augmented Data Quality Webinar: Improving Data With AI
Financial institutions are testing the capabilities of artificial intelligence (AI) and its application to their operational workflows. For many of their use cases, AI is a yet-to-be-proven technology for both their third-party and in-house applications. In its application to data management, however, the stakes are higher: the success of AI in automating processes related to...
Appital Launches New Price Discovery Functionality and Expands European Equity Coverage with Virtu
Appital, the technology provider specialising in peer-to-peer price discovery and liquidity sourcing for asset managers, has introduced ‘Price Discovery in Appital Insights’, aimed at improving natural liquidity generation among its buyside clients. The new functionality allows buyside traders to gain insights on potential pricing and volume before committing to an order. The newly launched feature...
Using AI to Bridge the Data Management Skills Gap
There’s little disagreement over the vital role played by data management in getting the most value of artificial intelligence (AI) applications. Without good data, there will be no good outcomes; or, as the popular saying goes: if you put garbage in, you’ll get garbage out. It’s a principle to which Peter Ku, vice-president and chief...
DORA Standards Finalized and the Clock is Running
With fewer than five months until the EU Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) comes into full force, financial institutions and their Information Communications and Technology (ICT) providers must act swiftly to ensure compliance with one of the most comprehensive regulatory mandates to date. The full DORA mandates become effective on January 17, 2025, following a...
Webinar: Practical Considerations for Regulatory Change Management
As financial markets continue to evolve, regulatory change management has become an essential yet complex task for financial institutions. The challenge lies in continuously monitoring, managing, and adapting to both minor and major adjustments in regulatory obligations. This year, the pressure is particularly high with significant upgrades to EMIR Refit, MiFID II, and MiFIR, among...
Why Artificial Intelligence isn’t Always a Clever Solution
James Maxfield, Chief Product Officer at Duco. It’s an exciting time for technology. There are some seriously powerful AI tools on the market, solving real issues that capital markets firms have been battling with for years, if not decades. Undoubtedly, this is just the start. Yet at the same time there’s a noticeable trend to...
Unstructured Data Webinar: Taming the New Frontier of Data Management
How can institutions get an edge from their data when much of the information they use has become commoditised? That’s one of the questions driving efforts to extract the most meaning and value from unstructured sources of data, pools of information that have until recently been largely out of reach for all but the biggest...