Thomson Financial has named Mark Howarth managing director of Asia-Pacific operations based in Hong Kong. Howarth comes from a nine year stint at Instinet, where he was most recently managing director, Asia ex-Japan. He reports to Donal Smith, president, Europe and Asia, Thomson Financial.
Unstructured data is voluminous, unwieldy and difficult to store and manage. For capital markets participants, it is also key to generating business insight, making better-informed decisions and delivering both internal and external value. Solving this dichotomy can be a challenge, but there are solutions designed to help financial institutions digest, manage and make best use...
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.
They may be complex and burdened with a bad reputation at the moment, but derivatives are here to stay. Although Bank for International Settlements figures indicate that derivatives trading is down for the first time in 10 years, the asset class has been strongly defended by the banking and brokerage community over the last few...
