Standard & Poor’s has appointed Elisabeth Nygren associate director of marketing, Europe. Elisabeth joins S&P from The Mergermarket Group, the mergers and acquisitions news and intelligence service, where she was global head of communications.
The EU’s Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) II is set to be top of the trading technology agenda for 2016. It’s impact will be more granular, prescriptive and onerous than the original MiFID regulation, raising business and technology challenges for those financial institutions affected, which need to be resolved within a tight deadline. Listen...
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.
At the same time, the growth of high frequency and event-driven trading techniques is spurring demand for direct feed services sourced from exchanges and other trading venues, including alternative trading systems and multilateral trading facilities. Handling these high-speed data feeds its presenting market data managers and their infrastructure teams with a challenge: how to manage...