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Upcoming Webinar: From Data to Alpha: AI Strategies for Taming Unstructured Data

Date: 16 April 2026 Time: 9:00am ET / 2:00pm London / 3:00pm CET Duration: 50 minutes Unstructured data and text now accounts for the majority of information flowing through financial markets organisations, spanning research content, corporate disclosures, communications, alternative data, and internal documents. While AI has created new opportunities to extract signals, many firms are...

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Beyond Calculation: How DORA Is Redefining NAV Resilience for Fund Managers

Under the EU’s Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA), NAV has been recast as a resilience capability. That shift framed a recent webinar hosted by A-Team Group’s RegTech Insight and sponsored by FundGuard, which brought together a panel of senior experts to examine what “recoverable NAV” now means in practice. NAV Resilience focus is not about...

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Eagle Alpha Alternative Data Conference, Spring, New York, hosted by A-Team Group

Now in its 9th 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.

Applications of Reference Data to the Middle Office

Increasing volumes and the complexity of reference data in the post-crisis environment have left the middle office struggling to meet the requirements of the current market order. Middle office functions must therefore be robust enough to be able to deal with the spectre of globalisation, an increase in the use of esoteric security types and...