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EDI Includes FIGI Codes in Version.2 of its Worldwide Adjustment Factor Feed
Exchange Data International (EDI) has released Version.2 of its worldwide adjustment factor feed service, including the addition of Financial Instrument Global Identifier (FIGI) codes in response to client requests in North America. The service allows users to compare a stock’s performance with adjusted pricing that considers distributions and corporate actions. Users can also compare historical…
Blockchain Can Clear Data Bottlenecks, Experts Say
Achieving the goal of monetising data assets through disruptive technologies such as blockchain, machine learning and data ontology standards requires thoughtful harnessing of these resources – and collaboration among units of firms, according to data management experts who spoke in a panel discussion on data innovation at the Data Management Summit hosted by A-Team Group…
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…
Recorded Webinar: Shareholding Disclosure: Are Financial Firms on top of this regulatory challenge?
With MiFID 2, Basel, 871(m) and other more talked about regulations making headlines firms have their hands full. However, as regulators begin to focus on systemic risk the accuracy of disclosures is gaining greater attention. Listen to this webinar for a discussion on the following shareholding disclosure topics: What the shareholder disclosure requirements are, and…
A-Team Group Appoints New Editor of Intelligent Trading Technology
A-Team Group (www.a-teamgroup.com) publisher of Intelligent Trading Technology today announced that Michael Shashoua has joined the firm as part of its expansion plan to support its ongoing growth. Michael will be responsible for the content in our Intelligent Trading Technology segment including the online news services, webinars, white papers and events and will report to…
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…
Recorded Webinar: How to leverage a market data inventory platform for enterprise-wide gains
What do global heads of market data thinking about the best ways of managing costs? What are the considerations, strengths and weaknesses of a market data inventory platform? Listen to this webinar where we reveal the findings from our survey including: How to best manage market data costs The functions and capabilities to look for…
Recorded Webinar: Meeting the data management challenges of MiFID II
The compliance deadline for Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) has been pushed back a year to January 2018, giving financial institutions within its scope an opportunity to take a strategic rather than tactical approach to implementation. But whatever the approach, the scale of the regulation is large and the data management challenge…
Deriving True Business Value from the Global LEI
The Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) – the free-to-use entity identifier – has established itself as a viable standard for helping financial institutions identify unique business entities that are parties to financial transactions. But it’s widely accepted to have its limitations. In particular, a lack of standardization and ability to link to associated data sets is…
Data Lineage and Traceability: Using Data to Improve your Data
By Brian Sentance, CEO of Xenomorph Enterprise Data Management (EDM) is, to state the obvious, a data-centric process (the clue is in the name!). But while financial institutions have placed evermore emphasis on ensuring the accuracy of their reference and market data, the need to maintain clearer insights into EDM systems and processes has also…