Citadel Associates has hired Rick Enfield as head of North American operations, responsible for professional services, support, training and administration. Enfield comes from Charles River Development, where he was director of the product management group. Prior to that he was a vice president at State Street.
Traditionally, trading organisations have procured and managed hardware themselves or through a third-party to support data services in a hosted environment – but as large firms look for efficiencies and smaller firms seek external help so they can focus on their core business, a shift in infrastructure ownership is needed. This can be achieved by...
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...
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 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...