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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Integration and Development Capabilities Sell Vontobel On Horizon Platform
Zurich-based Vontobel, which has CHF 187 billion in assets under management, chose Horizon Software’s Horizon Platform for Automated Trading (HPAT) for its electronic trade execution because of the platform’s ability to develop algorithms, handle reporting, meet compliance requirements and integrate in a timely and low-risk manner with the firm’s trading environment, according to Sylvain Thieullent,…
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…