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Data Management Summit Discusses Digitalisation, Technology, Diversity and More!
A-Team Group’s Data Management Summit hit an all-time high in New York City last week with a packed auditorium, buzzing exhibition hall, great line-up of speakers, market leading sponsors and interactive discussion throughout the day on how to deliver the next level of data management and business success. Keynote presentations Suvrat Bansal, head of innovation,…
DSB Opens Product Committee to Custodians, Data Vendors
The Derivatives Service Bureau (DSB), founded by the Association of Numbering Agencies (ANNA) to facilitate the allocation and maintenance of International Securities Identification Numbers (ISINs) for OTC Derivatives, is looking to expand its committee to include custodians and data vendors in 2019. It is now inviting applications to participate in its Product Committee from January…
Creating a Data First Mindset in the Capital Markets Sector
By: Clive Bellmore, CEO Europe and Africa, BackOffice Associates Analogies about how vital data is to the digital economy are bountiful. It has even been branded ‘the new gold’, a critical and precious asset that directly impacts business outcomes for companies across the globe and in all sectors. And never more so than in the…
ITS MiFID II Briefing: MEP Warns of Political Impact on Market Structure Post-Brexit
Dr Kay Swinburne, the Welsh Conservative MEP known for her instrumental role in the architecture of MiFID II, has issued a stark warning on the highly politicised environment to be expected over the next six months. As Brexit negotiations take centre stage and technical considerations become subsumed by partisan agendas, Swinburne further stressed the potential…
Get Ready For RegTech
Get ready as the second annual A-Team Group RegTech Summits are fast approaching. Held in both London and
Bloomberg Eases Data Access and Reduces Costs with Enterprise Access Point
Bloomberg has responded to customer calls for easier access to data with Enterprise Access Point, an online platform that provides normalised reference, pricing, regulatory and historical datasets to Bloomberg data license holders. Following the launch of the platform last week, we caught up with Gerard Francis, global head of enterprise data at Bloomberg, to find…
DSB Responds to Industry Feedback with Plans for a Technology Roadmap for OTC Derivative Identifiers
The Derivatives Service Bureau (DSB) is planning to develop a strategic technology roadmap for OTC derivative identifiers. The roadmap is a response to feedback from the DSB’s latest industry consultation that has also led to the creation of a Strategy Subcommittee of the DSB Technology Advisory Committee (TAC) that will take forward the technology-related work…
Sovereign Capital Partners Takes Ownership of Asset Control from Marlin Equity Partners
Nearly a year after Marlin Equity Partners put Asset Control up for sale with a price tag of £100 million – an astonishing eight times EBITDA – in November 2017, it has found a buyer in Sovereign Capital Partners, a UK-based private equity firm with a track record of acquiring high quality businesses and supporting…
SWIM – Retail Liquidity goes from Strength to Strength
By Joe Everitt, Managing Director SELECT, Stifel Europe Double-volume caps, large-in-scale restrictions, periodic auctions and systematic internalisers. In the first eight months of the new MiFID II regime the trading landscape has evolved radically. New liquidity venues abound fulfilling a variety of purposes and masters, some merely enabling the compliant trading of existing business in…
Data Management Strategy: The Next Chapter
With regulatory compliance still at the top of the agenda and business demand for meaningful data rising, is your firm’s data management strategy effective? Join next week’s A-Team Group Data Management Summit in New York City to answer the question with the help of Peter Moss, CEO of the SmartStream RDU. Moss will discuss today’s data management…