BancorpSouth Bank, a US-based commercial bank, has gone live with OTC Valuation’s derivative valuation service as part of its drive to improve its audit and valuation capabilities. The vendor has reported a good start to the year in terms of client interest as a result of the post-credit crunch focus on external sources of evaluated prices.
As rising geopolitical uncertainty prompts an intensification in the complexity and volume of global economic and financial sanctions, banks and financial institutions are faced with a daunting set of new compliance challenges. The risk of inadvertently engaging with sanctioned securities has never been higher and the penalties for doing so are harsh. Traditional sanctions screening...
Recent stock market losses among software providers have prompted some analysts to predict a coming “SaaS-pocalypse” as software companies are threatened by artificial intelligence that can write code and build software quickly and cheaply. The doomsayers may be premature, however. While AI undoubtedly has the ability to supplant some of those firms, it also presents...
Now in its 9th year, the Eagle Alpha Alternative Data Conference managed by A-Team Group, is the premier content forum and networking event for investment firms and hedge funds.
Entity data management has historically been a rather overlooked area of the reference data landscape, but with the increase focus on managing risk, the industry is finally taking notice. It is now generally agreed to be critical to every financial institution; although the rewards for investment in entity data management appear to be rather small,...
