U.K. data vendor Exchange Data International (EDI) has entered into a marketing alliance with Chicago-based Market Data Integrators (MDI). Under the deal, MDI will market EDI’s data services in the U.S., outside of the Northeast. Kurt Klein, MDI president, says the company plans to expand EDI’s reach particularly among buy-side users and expects to field four sales associates within the next three months.
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...
Huge swaths of critical financial information, from private credit agreements and ESG disclosures to complex tax documentation, is locked in unstructured formats such as digital documents and PDFs. The manual bottleneck this creates for the middle and back office eats into valuable resources. A key means to achieving this, Intelligent Data Processing (IDP), represent a...
Now in its 8th 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.
The year since we launched our first edition of the A-Team Alternative Trading Directory has passed by in a flash (no pun intended). And while the rate of expansion of the alternative trading system sector may have slowed – even consolidated somewhat – in the more established centres, their onward march continues both in terms of credibility, and of uptake...