Archax, the FCA regulated digital securities exchange, brokerage and custodian based in London, has appointed Malcolm Ford to lead its institutional sales activities in the run up to launch. Ford has over 20 years of experience in the institutional capital markets space, having worked for CMC Markets, Instinet, KCG, Morgan Stanley and Credit Agricole Cheuvreux. He has also worked for leading boutique firms including Assure Hedge, Linear Investments and Monsas.
Market data administration has always been a challenge. For many firms, keeping tabs on permissioning and entitlements, compliance with licensing agreements, and reconciling all that with increasingly complex invoices requires a significant dedicated resource with a clear understanding of the issues involved. As if that weren’t enough, things got more challenging for these teams in...
Jean Williams, U.K. managing director of buy side data management solutions vendor Citadel Associates, is no longer with the company. At press time, her whereabouts could not be ascertained.
Now in its 3rd year, the AI in Capital Markets Summit returns with a focus on the practicalities of onboarding AI enterprise wide for business value creation. Whilst AI offers huge potential to revolutionise capital markets operations many are struggling to move beyond pilot phase to generate substantial value from AI.
The on-site data management model is broken. Resources have been squeezed to breaking point. The industry needs a new operating model if it is truly to do more with less. Can hosted/managed services provide the answer? Can the marketplace really create and maintain a utility-based approach to reference data management? And if so, how can...
