James Price has been appointed director of business development and marketing for Standard & Poor’s European Securities Services. Based in London, he reports to Krishna Biltoo, managing director of European data and information and oversees a team of five.
Price’s main focus will be to raise Standard & Poor’s profile in the credit markets. He joins from Thomson Financial in Asia, where he worked in business development and product management.
Alternative data is emerging as a key component of buy-side firms’ efforts to seek out new investment opportunities, for many filling the gap left by the unbundling of sell-side research from execution. By tapping into unique, non-traditional data sets, hedge funds and quantitative fund managers hope to exploit unfound opportunities before they hit the mainstream....
By Andrew Delaney, President, A-Team Group. We hear it time and time again – at our conferences, on our roundtables and from our advisory boards: our beloved financial data and technology industry is suffering from an acute skills shortage. Flip to the other side of the coin, and employers and parents alike fret about the...
Now in its second year, the AI in Data Management Summit NYC explores what changes when AI becomes part of the data management operating model.
At the same time, the growth of high frequency and event-driven trading techniques is spurring demand for direct feed services sourced from exchanges and other trading venues, including alternative trading systems and multilateral trading facilities. Handling these high-speed data feeds its presenting market data managers and their infrastructure teams with a challenge: how to manage...