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Identifiers Body GLEIF Opens Office in Shanghai
The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF), a non-profit managing the LEI system, has established a representative office in China’s Shanghai Lin-gang Special Area. The expansion supports demand for the Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) and the verifiable LEI (vLEI) across the region. China is a key part of the Global LEI System, following a 2020…
Navigating the Complex New Sanctions Landscape: Webinar Preview
The criticality of sanctions to the armoury of international relations has been amplified over the past decade as geopolitical and trade tensions have intensified. Since Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014 and its attempted full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, governments around the world have increased sanctions on nations and entities by 700%, according to…
GLEIF Names Shanghai Electronic Certification Authority as China’s New vLEI Issuer
The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) has named the Shanghai Electronic Certification Authority (SHECA) as its newest Qualified vLEI Issuer (QVI), The vLEI is a globally standardised, secure digital counterpart to the Legal Entity Identifier (LEI), providing cryptographically verifiable organisational identity. SHECA, one of China’s Certification Authorities, will now offer authoritative vLEI issuance, validation…
13 Leading AI-Based Data Management Capability Providers
Institutions are facing huge operational burdens as they ingest huge volumes of data, demand real-time analytics and face stringent regulatory scrutiny. Consequently, the new data landscape is rendering traditional data management systems inadequate for the growing number of use cases to which data is being deployed. This has necessitated a shift towards modern data management…
Data Quality Still Troubling Private Market Investors: Webinar Review
Obtaining and managing data remains a sticking point for investors in private and alternative assets as financial institutions sink more of their capital into the markets. In a poll of viewers during a recent A-Team LIVE Data Management Insight webinar, respondents said the single-biggest challenge to managing private markets data was a lack of transparency…
Monitoring a High-Risk World: Next-Generation Sanctions Screening
Sanctions remain a critical tool in international relations, influencing global finance, politics and security. In the past five years, global economic and financial sanctions have intensified amid rising geopolitical uncertainty, creating a complex landscape for financial institutions worldwide, the report states. The risk that institutions can inadvertently engage with sanctioned securities has never been higher,…
Private Markets Data Opportunities Under the Microscope: Webinar Preview
As institutional asset managers accelerate their allocations into private markets, they often find themselves facing an alien landscape when it comes to data. Used to the data-driven systems that power public capital markets, investors in private markets, including private equity and private credit as well as alternatives such as property, must contend with greater opacity,…
From Batch to Real-Time: LSEG Reinvents AML Screening with World-Check On Demand
As financial institutions accelerate toward real-time payments and digital onboarding, compliance teams face mounting pressure to keep customer screening instant, accurate and demonstrable. In response, the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) has introduced World-Check On Demand – a new cloud-based service designed to deliver “real-time risk intelligence” through API integration, allowing institutions to embed sanctions…
Leaders Scrutinise a Changing Industry at A-Team Group’s Annual Data Management Summit New York City
Experts and executives from across the financial data ecosystem gathered at A-Team Group’s Data Management Summit New York 2025 last week to discuss and probe the latest innovations, trends and strategies in our fast-moving industry. From data quality and artificial intelligence agents to modern data architectures and data products, a multitude of current topics were…
A-Team Group Data Management Awards USA Winners Announced at DMS NYC 2025
A-Team Group has announced the winners of its 4th annual Data Management Insight Awards USA 2025, and we extend our congratulations to the individuals and companies recognised with awards this year. The event shines a light on the top providers of data management solutions, services, and consultancy for the capital markets across the United States….