XcitekSolutionsPlus last month hired Steve Thoma as senior client administrator within the client services team in Birmingham, AL., to provide production support and implementation of XSP within North America. Thoma was previously corporate action reorganization manager at Fifth Third Bank, and corporate action specialist at Bank One Trust. Further expansion in Birmingham, New York and London is expected.
Balancing the use of personal data required by Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID) as part of its transparency regime with the personal data protection rules set out in General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a tough task – tell us everything, but keep it secret – that many financial institutions are struggling with....
Investment managers must take a fresh approach to data management, stressing trusted partnerships with outside expertise over traditional outsourcing models, as they seek to adapt to a rapidly changing economic landscape, a report has urged. The binary build-versus-buy strategy that has been the basis of innovation adoption for decades has been upended by advances in...
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.
This year has truly been a year of change for the data management community. Regulators and industry participants alike have been keenly focused on the importance of data with regards to compliance and risk management considerations. The UK Financial Services Authority’s fining of Barclays for transaction reporting failures as a result of inconsistent underlying reference...