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Upcoming Webinar: Agility as Alpha: How Trading Infrastructure Determines Who Wins in Volatile Markets

Date: 21 May 2026 Time: 10:00am ET / 3:00pm London / 4:00pm CET Duration: 50 minutes Tariff shocks, geopolitical realignment and macroeconomic regime shifts are redrawing the investment landscape faster than most firms’ technology stacks can keep up. For hedge funds and asset managers, the ability to move quickly into new asset classes, geographies or...

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Data Platform Modernisation: Why The Hardest Problems Are No Longer Technical

Capital markets firms pursuing data platform modernisation have largely solved the technical challenges of compute and storage, but the organisational, governance and architectural decisions surrounding those platforms remain stubbornly difficult, according to practitioners from Northern Trust, RBC Wealth Management and LSEG, speaking at a recent A-Team Group webinar entitled Data platform modernisation: Best practice approaches...

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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.

The Global LEI System – Slow but Sure

After what looked like a slow start to the summer, the initiative to establish a global standard for legal entity identifiers (LEIs) took a series of significant leaps forward during August, that appears to have put the project firmly back on track. If the marketplace felt a little reticent in June and July, it could...