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....
At a recent RegTech Insight Advisory Board session, a discussion with Chandrakant on generative AI (GenAI) and model risk management underscored the need to cut through the hype and myths around GenAI and emerging agentic AI in regulated markets. This Q&A is the result. It examines why traditional model validation techniques—ROC curves and confusion matrices—can’t...
Now in its 15th year the Data Management Summit NYC brings together the North American data management community to explore how data strategy is evolving to drive business outcomes and speed to market in changing times.
Entity data management has historically been a rather overlooked area of the reference data landscape, but with the increase focus on managing risk, the industry is finally taking notice. It is now generally agreed to be critical to every financial institution; although the rewards for investment in entity data management appear to be rather small,...
