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10 Reasons to Download the Reg Data Handbook 2024 from RegTech Insight
Navigating the regulatory landscape has never been more complex. The A-Team Group Regulatory Data Handbook serves as a trusted reference source for regulatory data practitioners, offering essential information across global financial regulations, compliance timelines, and data management considerations. Rather than an exhaustive guide, this handbook provides foundational insights and convenient summaries, supporting practitioners with accessible,…
Inside AWS’s Strategy for Cloud Innovation in Financial Markets
Exclusive Q&A with John Kain, Head of Market Development for Financial Services at Amazon Web Services (AWS). Cloud technology continues to play an increasingly pivotal role in shaping the future of trading infrastructure. With its promise of scalability, resilience, security, and innovation, cloud technology is transforming workflows across the industry. However, the unique demands of…
An Execution Trader’s Job isn’t Dead; it’s Just Changing Course
By Sylvain Thieullent, CEO of Horizon Trading Solutions. With dozens of headlines circulating this year around the threat of emerging technologies automating swathes of banking roles, you could forgive colleagues on execution trading desks for feeling a tad jittery. The unrivalled speed and precision of trading algorithms have given rise to rumours of redundancy for…
Data Seen as Solution to Weathering Climate Stress
Recent stress tests of European financial institutions’ resilience to climate change have underlined the importance that high-quality data will play in fortifying banks, insurers and other organisations against the risk of transition and environmental losses. The region’s three financial regulators and the European Central Bank said that the results of their one-off “Fit-for-55” analysis found…
UK Budget Puts Corporate Actions Automation Back on the Agenda
By Yogita Mehta, Commercial Product Director – Corporate Actions, Financial Information, SIX. Expectations around the UK budget in October last month have been consistently making headlines since even before its was announced. One area that is expected to be impacted because of the changes announced by Rachel Reeves is market appetite for M&A activity, with…
As the Latest FPGA Technology from AMD Sets the Gold Standard, where Next for Ultra-Low Latency Trading?
Earlier this summer, AMD achieved a world-record STAC-T0 benchmark result1 with its FPGA designed for ultra-low latency trading, the AMD Alveo UL3524 FinTech accelerator card, and has now just launched a new card with equivalent performance but half the size, geared towards even broader adoption among high-frequency trading firms. STAC benchmarks are the accepted industry…
A-Team Group Names RegTech Insight – USA 2024 Award Winners
You have all voted and the results are in – A-Team Group has announced the winners of its RegTech Insight Awards – USA 2024. The awards acknowledge leading RegTech solutions, services and consultancy to capital markets participants across the USA, and the winners were named following the company’s 8th annual RegTech Summit in New York…
Miami Exchange Adopts DataBP Platform for Data Licensing Management
Miami International Holdings, Inc. (MIH), the technology-driven operator of regulated financial markets, has partnered with DataBP, the market data commercialisation and licensing management solutions vendor, to enhance the management of its data licensing processes. DataBP specialises in solutions that digitise and optimise market data management for exchanges and vendors, providing a unified platform for licensing,…
big xyt Secures €10 Million Investment to Drive Global Expansion
big xyt, the independent financial markets data and analytics solutions provider, has raised €10 million in a funding round led by European growth investment firm Finch Capital. The investment marks the company’s first external funding after a decade of profitable, self-funded growth. “Since launching the business in 2014, we’ve reinvested all the revenue and trust…
Denodo says its New Agora Platform is Built to Tame New Data Challenges
Data management services provider Denodo says it has tooled its latest innovation to provide solutions for a four-prong set of new challenges that the changing face of financial services has presented institutions. Agora, the company’s new cloud-based data management platform, addresses the critical needs that the Californian company highlighted in a recent white paper. They…