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Podcast Interview with A-Team CEO: Building and leading a content-centric business

One of A-Team Group’s industry friends and highly valued speaker at past events of ours, JR Lowry, recently interviewed A-Team Group’s chief executive officer Angela Wilbraham about what it takes to build a content-centric business and stay relevant more than 20 years later. James (JR) Lowry, who is currently COO at Janus Henderson Investors, has...

Evolution of the Algo Trading Desk

Listen to a session recorded at A-Team Group’s recent TradingTech Summit where a panel of experts discuss algo development, buy-side investment and shifting relationships between the buy-side and sell-side. The panel was moderated by Bill Harts, CEO at Harts & Company, and joined by Saurabh Srivastava, senior vice president, electronic trading, at Jefferies; Eric Karpman,...

SEC Rule 606 – Are We Nearly There Yet?

SEC Rule 606 has been given a new lease of life with a renewed version due to be implemented in October 2019 requiring brokers to provide greater transparency around how they route and handle customer orders. While the rule goes back 18 years and hasn’t been enforced to any great extent, the amended version has...

How to Source and Manage Data for FRTB – The Challenges and Opportunities

Sourcing and managing data for Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB) compliance is no mean feat, but there are options and choices to be made as firms within the scope of the regulation build out compliance programmes ahead of its January 2022 deadline. A panel session at A-Team Group’s recent FRTB briefing in London...

Podcast: Institutionalising Crypto Technology

Crypto technology is still in a ‘wild west’ phase, according to Simon Barnby, chief marketing officer at Archax Exchange and moderator of a panel covering institutionalising crypto technology at A-Team Group’s recent TradingTech Summit in London. Barnby was joined on the panel by Stewart Calvy, business development manager at Gilbraltar Blockchain Exchange; David Nicol, digital...

Podcast: Risk, Regulation and Sustainability in 2019

Beate Born, executive director of risk and regulatory management at UBS Wealth Management, led A-Team Group’s recent TradingTech Summit in London with an inspirational industry keynote on the outlook for risk, regulation and sustainability in 2019. The keynote considered the operational complexity of the finance industry and the risk of losses from inadequate internal processes...

Podcast: Leveraging the Cloud to Support Maximum Compute Performance

Moving to the cloud is on every trading organisation’s agenda and most have started the journey. But what exactly should you put in the cloud, what benefits can you expect to gain in terms of compute performance, and how best can you support legacy and cloud systems in a hybrid environment? Listen to this podcast,...

Podcast: Creating a Regulatory Change Management Framework

Join us for another in-depth A-Team Group Podcast, as we explore the best ways to create a robust regulatory change management framework to manage risk and navigate change. The Podcast explores how firms are developing capabilities to help anticipate risk, track and analyse regulatory updates. It reviews progress towards standards-based semantic technologies and machine-readable texts...

PODCAST: Garbage In, Garbage Out – Why Reg “Tech” is Only Half the Answer

Peter Moss is not shy of asking the hard questions. Join A-Team Group for a hard-hitting Podcast exploring the real challenges facing the future of the regtech industry – and how these can be handled. Learn why accurate data is the foundation upon which everything must be built, discover just why it is so important...

PODCAST: Connecting the Risk Data Ecosystems

Join Steve McDonald, the Head of Market Development, Risk & Compliance Solutions at Refinitiv, as he takes us on a journey through the complexities of connecting risk data ecosystems in today’s complex data-based environment. Explore the different types of risk ecosystem, discover how risk data ecosystems can be connected and what is involved, and learn...