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.
An asset manager’s ability to successfully execute on business transformation plans can make the difference between thriving and barely surviving in today’s competitive, digitally connected and regulatory-constrained environment. The more progressive buy-side firms are embarking on business transformation programmes that range from expansion across asset classes or geographies, introduction of new products, digital transformation to...
Investment managers must take a fresh approach to data management, stressing trusted partnerships with outside expertise over traditional outsourcing models, as they seek to adapt to a rapidly changing economic landscape, a report has urged. The binary build-versus-buy strategy that has been the basis of innovation adoption for decades has been upended by advances in...
A-Team Group, organisers of the TradingTech Summits, are pleased to announce the inaugural ExchangeTech Summit London on May 14th 2026. This dedicated forum brings together operators of exchanges, alternative execution venues and digital asset platforms with the ecosystem of vendors driving the future of matching engines, surveillance and market access.
Corporate actions has been a popular topic of discussion over the last few months, with the DTCC’s plans for XBRL and ISO interoperability, as well as the launch of Swift’s new self-testing service for corporate actions messaging, STaQS, among others. However, it has not been a good start to the year for many of the...
