Banking CIO Outlook

Recorded Webinar: Managing Off-Channel Communications Compliance

The compliance challenge around off-channel communications has moved beyond the familiar narrative of WhatsApp messages on personal phones. Today, the real issue confronting firms has become communication sprawl: conversations occurring across messaging apps, collaboration platforms, social media direct messages, personal email, and even messaging tools embedded within trading and workflow applications. Regulators’ expectations focus on...

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Testing an Assumption: Do AI Signals Really Decay?

Alpha decay is one of the foundational assumptions in quantitative finance. The empirical literature, beginning with McLean and Pontiff’s 2016 study of 97 anomalies and replicated and refined across multiple subsequent studies, has repeatedly found that returns degrade out-of-sample and degrade further once published. The assumption sits inside almost every institutional model risk framework as...

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Eagle Alpha Alternative Data Conference, London, hosted by A-Team Group

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.

Regulatory Data Handbook 2026 – Fourteenth Edition

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...