About a-team Marketing Services

Data Management Insight Standards The latest content from across the platform

Upcoming Webinar: Streamlining trading and investment processes with data standards and identifiers?

3 June 2025 10:00am ET | 3:00pm London | 4:00pm CET Duration: 50 Minutes Financial institutions are integrating not only greater volumes of data for use across their organisation but also more varieties of data. As well, that data is being applied to more use cases than ever before, especially regulatory compliance and ESG integration….

Upcoming Webinar: In data we trust – How to ensure high quality data to power AI

13 March 2025 11:00am ET | 3:00pm London | 4:00pm CET Duration: 50 Minutes Artificial intelligence is increasingly powering financial institutions’ processes and workflows, encompassing all parts of the enterprise from front-office to the back-office. As organisations seek to gain a competitive edge, they are trialling the technology in variety of ways to streamline and…

Zema Global Chief Girds for Soaring Demand for Energy Data

Since its acquisition of Morningstar’s commodity information business late last year, energy industry intelligence provider Zema Global has become an important data feed for financial institutions that invest in the net-zero transition and to those trading in renewables, biofuels and fossil fuels. The transaction was a prescient one. While the Colorado, US-headquartered company has been…

GLEIF Begins a New Decade in Growth Mode

The Global Legal Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) enters its second decade this month with its novel system of identifiers for everything from companies and their financial instruments to real assets fast becoming a global standard. While the next five years are expected to see yet more entities join the GLEIF’s open data project, the organisation’s immediate…

SmartStream Chief Jaffer Sees Rapid Change in Year at Helm

Just over a year into his tenure as chief executive of financial data automation provider SmartStream, Akber Jaffer finds himself surveying a data industry that’s changed enormously over his short time at the UK-based company. Chat GPT was a year old when he took on his new role and the artificial intelligence (AI) technology’s revolutionary…

How to Build an Open Data Ecosystem: A Scheme Owner’s Guide

By Brendan Jones, Chief Operating Officer at Konsentus. When taking a scheme-based approach to building an Open Data ecosystem, it is the job of the scheme owner to define the standards, rules and operating procedures that participants sign up to. This means creating the scheme rulebook, processes and infrastructure requirements that underpin the Open Data…

2024: A Year of Increasing Data Complexity

One thing was apparent in the data management space over the past year; the job of chief data officers became increasingly complex as the volume of data their organisations ingested swelled and the uses to which it was put expanded. All that despite the flowering of technologies with the potential to make life easier for…

GLEIF Creates Links to Dutch Chamber of Commerce Register

The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) has provided links to the data of companies registered with the Dutch Chamber of Commerce (KVK), enabling institutions around the world to easily obtain information on those firms. The links are connected to GLEIF-created legal entity identifiers assigned to each of the companies on the register and will…

A-Team Group Announces Winners of its Data Management Insight Awards Europe 2024

The winners of A-Team Group’s Data Management Insight Awards Europe 2024 have been announced, with another crop of outstanding companies recognised for their innovation, expertise and performance. Established solution vendors and ground-breaking newcomers alike are acknowledged in the awards for providing leading data management solutions, services and consultancy to capital markets participants across Europe. Over…

ACA Updates ESG Platform with Greater Private Market Capabilities

Governance, risk and compliance advisory firm ACA Group has updated its ESG data management platform to provide more flexibility to its private investment clients. The New York-based company has retooled the ACA Vantage for ESG platform it launched in 2022 after acquiring ESG data specialist Ethos. The new iteration enables greater configuration of data and…