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...
Much is spoken of the data challenges that institutional asset managers are facing as they redraw their business models to meet the demands of a new economic environment, but less is said of asset owners, who are undergoing their own operational transformations. For them, the data journey is just as challenging; as their operational models...
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.
They may be complex and burdened with a bad reputation at the moment, but derivatives are here to stay. Although Bank for International Settlements figures indicate that derivatives trading is down for the first time in 10 years, the asset class has been strongly defended by the banking and brokerage community over the last few...
