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Recorded Webinar: Navigating the Build vs Buy Dilemma: Cloud Strategies for Accelerating Quantitative Research

For many quantitative trading firms and asset managers, building a self-provisioned historical market data environment remains one of the most time-consuming and resource-intensive steps in establishing a new research capability. Sourcing data, normalising symbologies, handling corporate actions and maintaining infrastructure can take months and absorb significant budget before a single model is tested. At the...

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Industry Backs FCA AIFM Reform but Warns of Uneven Costs.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) recently proposed the biggest overhaul of the UK alternative investment fund manager (AIFM) regime since 2013. The projected benefits will depend on whether greater proportionality can reduce compliance overhead without shifting costs to smaller managers. The proposals in CP 26/28 replace the current distinction between full-scope and sub-threshold AIFMs with...

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Data Management Summit New York City

Now in its 16th year, Data Management Summit (DMS) NYC returns on September 17th 2026, to explore how to use data and AI to drive measurable business outcomes – reliably, repeatedly and at scale.

Alternative Data in Capital Markets Handbook 2026

Alternative data adoption in capital markets has moved into a more disciplined phase. Simply possessing a dataset is no longer a differentiator – the priority now is how data is sourced, synthesised and deployed, and how quickly granular, disaggregated signals can be turned into validated, decision-ready insight. The 2026 edition of the Alternative Data in...