Xcitek has appointed Neil Sheppard as chief operating officer with responsibility for managing the company’s corporate actions software XSP in Europe, in support of the European growth strategy. Prior to joining Xcitek, Sheppard has held a variety of project management, product and business development roles in corporate actions at Magenta One, UBS, Morgan Stanley, Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, ABN Amro Equities and Citibank.
The importance of data lineage has escalated in recent years in response to regulatory demand and increased business understanding of the benefits it can deliver. Like all capital markets technology, data lineage presents both challenges and opportunities, so how best can it be implemented and sustained? And how can your organisation reap the rewards of...
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.
After initial hesitancy, interest in digital assets from institutional market participants has grown over the past three to four years. Early focus inevitably centred on the market opportunities presented by bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. But this has evolved into a broad acceptance of a potentially meaningful role for digital assets in institutional markets. It’s now...