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Recorded Webinar: Holistic Conduct & Surveillance: Unifying Trade, Voice, and eComms Data with AI

Surveillance in capital markets has evolved in silos. Trade surveillance, voice recording, and electronic communications monitoring have traditionally operated as parallel control functions, each with distinct datasets, workflows and alerting logic. Yet recent enforcement actions on both sides of the Atlantic – ranging from off-channel communications failures to market manipulation cases – demonstrate a consistent...

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Synthetic Data’s Real Value Isn’t Alpha – It’s Confidence

The alternative data industry has largely settled the question of whether synthetic data has a place in institutional workflows. The harder question – and the one that dominated a lively panel discussion at the A-Team/Eagle Alpha Alternative Data Conference in New York – is where exactly that place is, and how far practitioners should trust...

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Buy AND Build: The Future of Capital Markets Technology

Buy AND Build: The Future of Capital Markets Technology London examines the latest changes and innovations in trading technology and explores how technology is being deployed to create an edge in sell side and buy side capital markets financial institutions.

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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...