Thomson Financial has implemented an IBM Z990 mainframe to boost capacity of its Thomson Datastream historical database. The upgrade has increased capacity by 35%, offering clients faster response times. Additionally, Thomson has introduced Internet access to Datastream data using the Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP). Thomson says German retail bank Nassauische Sparkasse has signed up to use the PPTP access facility.
As rising geopolitical uncertainty prompts an intensification in the complexity and volume of global economic and financial sanctions, banks and financial institutions are faced with a daunting set of new compliance challenges. The risk of inadvertently engaging with sanctioned securities has never been higher and the penalties for doing so are harsh. Traditional sanctions screening...
The transition of artificial intelligence and machine learning (ML) models from experimental sandboxes to production environments remains a persistent operational friction point. While quantitative researchers and data scientists can often demonstrate alpha in isolated backtesting environments, the institutionalisation of these models requires a level of data pipeline robustness, latency control and regulatory auditability that research...
Following the success of the 15th Data Management Summit NYC, A-Team Group are excited to announce our new event: AI in Data Management Summit NYC!
Following on from the success of our Regulatory Data Handbook, A-Team Group is pleased to introduce its new Entity Data Management Handbook which is available for free download. This Handbook is the ultimate guide to all things entity data: Why Entity Data is important A full review of Legal Entity Identifiers (LEIs) Where they came...
