XcitekSolutionsPlus last month hired Steve Thoma as senior client administrator within the client services team in Birmingham, AL., to provide production support and implementation of XSP within North America. Thoma was previously corporate action reorganization manager at Fifth Third Bank, and corporate action specialist at Bank One Trust. Further expansion in Birmingham, New York and London is expected.
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Investment managers must take a fresh approach to data management, stressing trusted partnerships with outside expertise over traditional outsourcing models, as they seek to adapt to a rapidly changing economic landscape, a report has urged. The binary build-versus-buy strategy that has been the basis of innovation adoption for decades has been upended by advances in...
Now in its 9th 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.
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,...
