Horizon Software has named Philippe Thomas as a member of its advisory board. Thomas has previously held executive positions at Ullink and SunGard, and joins Horizon from his role as a consultant and investor at New World Wind, a provider of sustainable electrical services. The appointment is part of the company’s expansion strategy following an MBO in June 2018 and requires Thomas to provide coaching on business strategies that will support Horizon’s global growth.
When it comes to trade surveillance, regulators want firms to do their own alert calibration, examine all alerts, and keep auditable records. Firms need to balance the real cost of false positives with the technical challenge and risk of self-calibrating and auto-calibrating, while compliance, IT and vendors have to grapple with the need for defensible...
ADP’s Brokerage Services Group (BSG) has launched an automated corporate actions processing system based on XcitekSolutionsPlus’s XSP platform. The new system is part of BPS’s back-office processing offering, and features a data-scrubbing engine for exception-handling. The engine compares announcement data from multiple sources and identifies exceptions, publishing them to BPS and offering managers an overall...
Following the success of the 15th Data Management Summit NYC, A-Team Group are excited to announce our new event: AI in Data Management Summit NYC!
Alternative data adoption in capital markets has moved into a more disciplined phase. Simply possessing a dataset is no longer a differentiator – the priority now is how data is sourced, synthesised and deployed, and how quickly granular, disaggregated signals can be turned into validated, decision-ready insight. The 2026 edition of the Alternative Data in...