Interactive Data Corp has appointed Rona Fairhead to its board as one of five Pearson-affiliated directors. She succeeds John Fallon, who resigned earlier this month. Fairhead is chief executive of the Financial Times Group, where she is responsible for overseeing the Financial Times newspaper, the Economist Group, the FTSE Group joint venture with the London Stock Exchange and Pearson’s stake in Interactive Data.
The financial services industry is starting to harness the potential of Big Data analytics to gain insights that can yield competitive advantage. At the same time, market surveillance has emerged as a major requirement for trading firms across the board as regulations like MiFID II and Market Abuse Regulation (MAR) push both buy- and sell-side...
By Andrew Delaney, President, A-Team Group. We hear it time and time again – at our conferences, on our roundtables and from our advisory boards: our beloved financial data and technology industry is suffering from an acute skills shortage. Flip to the other side of the coin, and employers and parents alike fret about the...
A-Team Group’s Digital Assets & Tokenisation Briefing assembles an exclusive group of CxOs and senior technology innovators. These leading market practitioners and infrastructure providers are collectively building the digital rails and decentralised networks that will power Wall Street 2.0.
The potential of a reference data utility model has been discussed for many years, and while early implementations failed to gain traction, the model has now come of age as financial institutions look for new data management models that can solve the challenges of operational cost reduction, improved data quality and regulatory compliance. The multi-tenanted...