Buy-side giant Teachers Insurance & Annuity Association-College Retirement Equities Fund (TIAA-CREF) has chosen Fame Information Services’ ReferencePoint as the basis for a new enterprise data management platform to support its risk operation. ReferencePoint will be used to manage the flow of both real-time and historical data into its risk applications.
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...
As private markets and assets grow in importance to institutional investors, so are the challenges they face; not least of all their data processes. A report by Dynamo Software in February found that the biggest challenges faced by accounting professionals in private equity, venture and hedge funds were tech and data-related; manual data entry and...
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.
Despite the setback of the FTX collapse, institutional interest in digital assets has grown markedly in the past 12 months, with firms of all sizes now acknowledging participation in some form. While as recently as a year ago, institutional trading firms were taking a cautious stance toward their use, the acceptance of tokenisation, stablecoins, and...