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Data Management Summit Discusses Digitalisation, Technology, Diversity and More!
A-Team Group’s Data Management Summit hit an all-time high in New York City last week with a packed auditorium, buzzing exhibition hall, great line-up of speakers, market leading sponsors and interactive discussion throughout the day on how to deliver the next level of data management and business success. Keynote presentations Suvrat Bansal, head of innovation,…
FactSet Sets Out Development Plans for Data Exploration Platform
FactSet plans to roll out additional elements of its cloud-based FactSet Data Exploration platform that will deliver a fully hosted application production environment over the next six months. The company introduced the platform on Microsoft Azure this summer offering content from the Open:FactSet Marketplace as well as programming tools including Microsoft SQL, RStudio and Python….
Get Ready For RegTech
Get ready as the second annual A-Team Group RegTech Summits are fast approaching. Held in both London and
TORA Teams with NEX for MiFID II Trade/Transaction Reporting
TORA has partnered with NEX Regulatory Reporting to add MiFID II trade and transaction reporting capability to its cloud-based order and execution management system (OEMS). NEX operates an Approved Reporting Mechanism (ARM) and Approved Publication Arrangement (APA) under MiFID II. The initiative, which provides buy-side firms with a straight-through-processing solution that reduces the operational demands…
CJC Promotes Steven Moreton to Lead Product Development and Hires Karen Love to Drive Business Development
CJC, the London-based specialist in IT managed services and cloud technology for capital markets, has promoted former senior technical director Steven Moreton to the role of global head of product management. It has also appointed Karen Love to drive global business development. Moreton, who has spent nearly twenty years working globally in capital markets across…
Visible Alpha Appoints ex-FactSet Executive Mark Hale as COO
Research specialist Visible Alpha has appointed Mark Hale to the newly created role of chief operating officer (COO). Hale Joins Visible Alpha after 20 years at financial data and software company FactSet, where he served as executive vice president and COO, leading global teams in product management, technology, infrastructure and IT. Hale will lead Visible…
AlgoTrader Releases Version 4.5 of its Cryptocurrency Platform
AlgoTrader, the Zurich-based developer of algorithmic trading software for quantitative hedge funds, including an early automated trading solution for Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, has released its AlgoTrader 4.5 solution. This version of the software incorporates direct cryptocurrency exchange adapters, and offers live market and reference data, order management for all order types, and automatic deposit…
Suvrat Bansal Describes Digitalisation at UBS Asset Management
Digitalisation is at the top of the agenda at many large capital markets firms, but how can it be achieved without disruption and with outcomes that benefit your clients, staff and stakeholders? Suvrat Bansal, head of innovation and chief data officer, and managing director at UBS Asset Management, will share his experience of leading a…
Bloomberg Eases Data Access and Reduces Costs with Enterprise Access Point
Bloomberg has responded to customer calls for easier access to data with Enterprise Access Point, an online platform that provides normalised reference, pricing, regulatory and historical datasets to Bloomberg data license holders. Following the launch of the platform last week, we caught up with Gerard Francis, global head of enterprise data at Bloomberg, to find…
Market-Maker Allston Trading Selects Corvil for Network Data Analytics
By Uri Inspector, Staff Reporter Allston Trading, a market-maker in global energy, commodity and financial futures markets, has selected Corvil to provide network data analytics and reporting that the firm hopes will improve the performance of its trading infrastructure. The firm is using Corvil tools to optimise its market data, trade plant and execution, and…