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Data Management Summit Discusses How Best to Set up and Develop Data Governance
Data governance was a hot topic at A-Team Group’s Data Management Summit (DMS) in New York City with Sanjay Saxena, head of enterprise data governance at Northern Trust, presenting best practices for setting up data governance, a panel discussing how to evolve data governance, and many more questions being asked and comments being made on…
Buy-Side Waking Up To MiFID II Impact On Research Fees, Says Fidessa Executive
In recent weeks, the understanding of how to implement the rules for commission payments set in Europe’s MiFID II regulation has changed, according to David Pearson, head of post-trade strategy at trading platform provider Fidessa. “The understanding now is that a broker must be paid for services they provide to clients, whatever those services are,”…
A-Team DMS Tackles Challenges of Big Data, Regulation, Data Value and More
A-Team Group’s New York City Data Management Summit (DMS) kicked off with a keynote presentation on the 800lb gorilla of big data, and panel discussions dedicated to regulation and the data management response for 2017, and challenges that are keeping chief data officers (CDOs) awake at night. Michael Stonebraker, adjunct professor at MIT and co-founder…
FINRA Bans Spoofing and Layering Practices In Its Markets
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), the US self-regulatory organization serving the NYSE, Nasdaq and other US-based exchanges, has submitted a proposal to the US Securities and Exchange Commission to sanction trading practices commonly known as “spoofing” and “layering.” FINRA has proposed adding provisions to Rule 5210 of the US Securities Exchange Act of 1934…
Best Practice Approaches to Economic Sanctions and Related Securities
Economic sanctions can pose difficult data management and compliance problems, particularly at the securities level, but automated services that identify and manage securities related to sanctions can help firms improve compliance and avoid penalties for breaches. The challenges of effective sanctions data monitoring, as well as the opportunities of getting this right, were discussed during…
SROs To Select CAT Builder within Two Months Following SEC Approval of NMS Plan
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has approved the national market systems (NMS) plan that will create a consolidated audit trail (CAT) designed to help regulators improve tracking of trading activity in the US equity and options markets. Within two months of this week’s approval, self-regulatory organisations (SROs) must select an organisation, or plan processor…
Winners of the 2016 Data Management Review Awards
This year’s DMR awards ceremony was a tremendous event with 18 award winners, an entertaining address by guest speaker Mark Foster, one of Britain’s most decorated male swimmers, and a five-star lunch in the splendour of the Merchant Taylors’ Hall. A-Team Group CEO, Angela Wilbraham, and President, Andrew Delaney, hosted the event and were joined…
A-Team Webinar Addresses Rising Requirement for Accurate Shareholding Disclosure
Shareholding disclosure requirements are moving up the data management agenda at financial institutions as regulators increase their focus on systemic risk. A-Team will discuss the challenges of accurate shareholding disclosure during a webinar next Tuesday and present the results of a recent industry survey focused on how financial institutions are addressing shareholding disclosure obligations. The…
Thomson Reuters Lays Off Staff as Reorganisation Cuts 2,000 Jobs
Thomson Reuters is cutting 2,000 jobs as part of a reorganisation that kicked in this week with staff layoffs. Thomson Reuters announced the job cuts, 4% of its workforce of about 48,000 people globally, as it reported a slight dip in third quarter profit and flat revenue. The cuts will be made across 39 countries…
Object Trading Adapts To Singapore Exchange’s Titan Platform
Multi-asset trading infrastructure provider Object Trading has adjusted its services to conform to Titan, the newly launched trading platform of the Singapore Exchange (SGX). Object Trading’s Direct Market Access (DMA) platform will continue to handle market data, order execution and pre-trade risk constraints for its clients who trade on SGX. Object Trading supports SGX’s QuestDT…