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EU Asserts ‘Strategic Autonomy’ in Post-Brexit Regulatory Landscape
With Brexit now ‘done’, the EU is taking stock of its regulatory environment as it settles down to life without the UK and its all-important financial capital London. The EU will spend 2022 setting out its regulatory stall as the UK seeks to differentiate itself from its former stablemates. What’s emerging is a multi-pronged regulatory…
Pico Acquires Redline to Boost Market Data, Connectivity Offerings
Trading technology, data and analytics provider Pico has agreed to acquire trading and market data software specialist Redline Trading Solutions, for an undisclosed sum. The deal will bring together Pico’s global ultra-low latency infrastructure and network, underpinned by Corvil Analytics, with Redline’s high-performance software solutions for market data, execution and order routing. The combined offering…
The View in 2022 – Another Pivotal Year in ESG
In many ways 2021 was a watershed year for ESG. The European Union’s implementation of Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) began in earnest and other regulators around the world – especially in the UK – indicated they may soon follow suit. The COP26 United Nations climate summit later in the year provided a galvanising impetus…
Five Trading Tech Trends to Watch in 2022
The last couple of years have seen some significant shifts in the financial markets trading technology landscape. The impact of the global pandemic has forced many firms within the sector to fundamentally reassess their operational environments, and to accelerate their digitalisation and cloud initiatives. Crypto and digital assets have continued their forward march, as interest…
2022 – The Year of Transition, Turning Data Management Theories into Practical Solutions
Welcome to Data Management Insight 2022 and some of the hot topics we will be exploring as capital markets participants continue to mainstream data as a resource to improve business value, extend digitalisation, drive up efficiencies, foster innovation, and last but not least, improve regulatory compliance processes. It will not all be plain sailing, however,…
Can Prime Brokerage Open the Door to Institutional Access to Digital Assets?
By Martha Reyes, Head of Research, Bequant. It’s surprising how crypto markets have been repeating the same evolutionary cycles of infrastructure building as the traditional markets. As more established investors enter the crypto space, digital asset prime brokers are rising to the challenge to offer technology-driven solutions to many of the same challenges faced by…
FactSet to Acquire CUSIP Global Services as S&P Global Facilitates Merger with IHS Markit
The holidays brought good news for CUSIP Global Services (CGS) with FactSet making a definitive agreement to acquire the company from S&P Global in a cash deal valued at $1.925 billion. Late last year, the European Commission said S&P Global would have to divest CGS to gain regulatory approval for its planned $44 billion merger…
Intelligent Machine Readable News – How to Get a Signal from the Noise
Intelligent machine readable news is a powerful tool in the arsenal of trading firms seeking competitive advantage. It offers opportunities to turn unstructured data into actionable insight that can be used to uncover market trends, identify correlations and evaluate sentiment, but also raises challenges such as information sourcing, timing and contextualisation. A recent A-Team Group…
Moody’s Analytics Wins A-Team Group Data Management Insight Award 2021 for Best Proposition for AI and Machine Learning
This blog is sponsored by Moody’s Analytics. Congratulations to Sergio Gago Huerta, Managing Director of Product Management at Moody’s Analytics, and his team on winning A-Team Group’s Data Management Insight Award 2021 for Best Proposition for AI and Machine Learning. A-Team Group: What challenges does your winning data management solution address? Sergio: Our Moody’s Analytics…
Wilshire Forms Digital Asset Advisory Group
Global investment technology and advisory company Wilshire has launched the Wilshire Digital Asset Advisory Group, to be chaired by Blythe Masters, founding partner at Motive Partners and ex-CEO of Digital Asset Holdings. The advisory group aims to bring together the world’s top digital asset practitioners to capture their collective perspectives and insights. The advisory group’s…