Reuters has relocated Barnaby Nelson to Hong Kong, from London, to head up its DataSelect initiative in Asia. Nelson, previously part of the DataScope team in London, will lead a team of five salespeople and one product specialist. His former role in Europe is being covered by Oliver Smith, who recently joined Reuters from Bloomberg, and Jennifer Reynolds, formerly with Reuters’ focus group accounts team.
This webinar has passed, but you can view the recording here. The US Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act – aka FATCA – raised eyebrows when its final regulations requiring foreign financial institutions (FFIs) to report US accounts to US tax authorities were published last year, but with the exception of a few modifications the legislation...
This week’s decision by the G20 to endorse the Financial Stability Board’s (FSB) recommendations on a global system of legal entity identifiers (LEIs) to counter systemic risk met a mixed response with potential parties to the development of the system glad of the G20’s go ahead, but still disagreeing on how the system’s infrastructure should...
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.
Corporate actions has been a popular topic of discussion over the last few months, with the DTCC’s plans for XBRL and ISO interoperability, as well as the launch of Swift’s new self-testing service for corporate actions messaging, STaQS, among others. However, it has not been a good start to the year for many of the...