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.
Financial institutions today face a global regulatory landscape characterised by rigorous and varied reporting requirements across their businesses. Reporting challenges include completing more data fields across more lines of business with greater frequency, adding complexity and cost. At the same time, there is waning tolerance among supervisory bodies for errors, issues or delays – as...
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...
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 US Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act – aka FATCA – raised eyebrows when its final regulations requiring foreign financial institutions (FFIs) to report US accounts to US tax authorities were published last year. But with the exception of a few modifications, the legislation remains in place and starts to comes into force in earnest...
