International Financial Data Services (IFDS) has hired Daniel Carpenter as head of U.K. sales, reporting to managing director Paul Roberts. IFDS is a transfer agency joint venture between DST Systems and State Street. Carpenter was previously sales and marketing director at Cor Financial Solutions, and has held positions at Kinetic Information Systems, Primark – now part of Thomson Financial – and Britannia Software.
Market abuse is a potential problem for many financial institutions. It typically covers insider dealing, unlawful disclosure of inside information, and market manipulation, and is often difficult to detect and report in line with regulations such as Market Abuse Regulation – or MAR, and its UK equivalent. While compliance with MAR is a challenge, non-compliance...
Juniper Square has, from a virtual standing start, become one of the fastest-growing providers of data and investor services to private-market participants. Earlier in the summer it received a US$130 million series D capital injection that underscored its prospects and valued the company within unicorn territory. That’s unsurprising for a company whose platform has, since...
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.
With the compliance deadline for Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) just over two months away, A-Team Group has updated its MiFID II handbook to bring you the latest details on the regulation’s compliance requirements. Version 2 of the handbook, commissioned by Thomson Reuters, also includes new sections covering data sourcing and data...