A-Team Insight White Paper
Financial Markets Tune In To Wireless
Wireless network technologies offer firms with latency-sensitive trading strategies a significant speed advantage over fibre optic technologies. But to deliver a competitive edge in trading performance they must be carefully selected, deployed and operated. Download our White Paper today and learn: The benefits of latest generation microwave and millimetre wave wireless technologies that can reduce...
How to Create an Agile Trading System
High speed, low latency trading connectivity is no longer enough to differentiate you from your competitors – so how do you add value to your trading systems? How can you create a trading platform that is: Flexible enough to accommodate the transaction lifecycle? Powerful enough to deliver the analytics for better informed trading decisions? Fast...
IFRS & AIFMD – Managing the Pricing and Transparency Paradigm
The International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD) present the market with a broad and complex range of obligations. In many cases these are the first set of common obligations that will impact Fund Managers, Hedge Funds, Asset Managers, Fund Administrators & Custodians all at the same time! Going...
The Role of Technology in Data Management
Data managers are tackling the issues of managing and distributing accurate and timely data across their organisations with the assistance of highly automated technology solutions. While technology plays a leading role in data management, there are other issues to consider, including product selection, procurement, project management and ongoing business development. MJC Data Management Solutions suggests...
How to Ensure the Integrity of Your Contributions Data
Do you worry about the validity and integrity of the data you contribute either to benchmarks like Libor or indexes, or to markets like the exchange-like Swap Execution Facilities (SEFs)? Or about the quality of the data you are selling to clients? With a marketplace growing in complexity, and more and more rules coming from...
Are Your Data Management Ops Future Proofed for Regulations?
Short term approaches to each new regulation that comes along are relatively easy to fund. But for true success, a long-term approach should be considered now that will help future proof your organisation against further regulatory change. A-Team Group surveyed 15 Tier 1 buy- and sell-side institutions about their views on a utility – rather than...
Have you figured out a single view of customer data yet?
Are you feeling the pressure from regulators to sort out your entity data but are frustrated knowing that the promised LEI solution is far from ready? What can you do in the meantime? Some financial institutions are meeting the regulatory requirements by establishing a single client view by cross-referencing data sources to help them achieve their entity data management...
The Case for a Reference Data Management Utility
Money, time, accuracy and quality have all been casualties of the extensive duplication of effort that has characterised the management of reference data management in the financial industry for as long as anyone can remember. The issue has become all the more acute in recent years by the growing complexity of financial markets and the...
Getting a Grip on Benchmark Contributions
A discussion of the issues surrounding bank-contributed market information for benchmarks and indexes. Recent scandals involving bank-contributed financial information – most notably 2010’s discovery of fraudulent contributions to the widely used the London Inter-Bank Offered Rate (LIBOR) benchmark – have underscored the lack of transparency and lack of control of the rates and prices financial...
An Architecture For Intelligent Trading – Leveraging Big Data in Motion for Increased Profits
Trading firms are moving on from an obsessive focus on latency reduction to a ‘new normal’ of applying intelligence to high performance trading, to ensure that they are executing the best – most profitable and least risky – trades, and not simply the fastest ones. It’s called Intelligent Trading. The Intelligent Trading approach calls for...