Global Operations and Administration Limited (GOAL), a provider of tax reclamation services, has completed the acquisition of Magenta One, a securities class actions specialist. As a wholly owned subsidiary of GOAL, the business will trade under the new name of Magenta One Global Limited, operating out of GOAL’s headquarters in the City of London. David Monks will continue to lead the sales team, targeting custodian banks, pension funds, fund managers and brokerages.
Cloud-based services and processing have become essential to financial institutions as their data management demands have become more complex and expansive. Thousands of organisations have made the jump from their limited on-premises tech stacks to the near-infinite scalability opportunities of public and private clouds. They have also been motivated by the need to modernise their...
Intelligent semi-autonomous AI agents promise a powerful solution to many challenges with the financial space. But their need for good-quality data is also highlighting the shortcomings that remain within some institutions’ data architectures. This apparent chicken-and-egg situation is one that Thomas Steinborn, chief product and technology officer at Smartstream, believes can only be resolved by...
Now in its 8th year, the Eagle Alpha Alternative Data Conference managed by A-Team Group, is the premier content forum and networking event for investment firms and hedge funds.
Welcome to the fourteenth edition of A-Team Group’s Regulatory Data Handbook. Supervisors increasingly expect firms to demonstrate which rules apply, which data supports each obligation, who owns the control and how exceptions are identified and resolved. Policies and implementation programmes must now be supported by records that can withstand regulatory scrutiny. This edition examines material...