A-Team Insight Podcast
A-Team Group RegTech Summit Reviews the First Nine Months of MiFID II
MiFID II was designed to increase market transparency and improve investor protection. So, how is it doing nine months in, what challenges remain – and there are plenty, and what are the positive outcomes for firms within its scope and the industry as a whole? You can find out the answers to these questions and...
SmartStream RDU Presents RegTech Summit Keynote on MiFID II and the SI Regime
Peter Moss, CEO of the SmartStream Reference Data Utility (RDU), dived into the detail of systematic internalisation under Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) during a keynote presentation at A-Team Group’s recent RegTech Summit in London. He noted growing numbers of systematic internalisers (SIs) registered with the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA)...
Role of Regtech in Improving KYC, AML and Customer Due Diligence
The challenges of financial crime are significant and becoming harder to resolve, but advances can be made by implementing regtech solutions to improve customer onboarding, Know Your Customer (KYC) and Anti-Money Laundering systems at the heart of due diligence. This podcast comes from a panel discussion at A-Team Group’s recent RegTech Summit in London. It...
Navigating the Emerging SI Landscape
In our final A-Team Group Podcast from the recent MiFID 2 briefing entitled ‘Interacting with the New Market Structure’, held on September 18th in the City of London, expert market practitioners including Simon Dove, Head of Liquidity Management at Tower Research Capital Europe; Jonathan Finney, Director of European Business Development at Citadel Securities; Peter Moss,...
The Future of Fighting Financial Crime
Money laundering is a truly global phenomenon. The amount of illicit proceeds from criminal activity is estimated to account for 2-5 % of global GDP, yet less than 1% is seized or frozen by law enforcement in the financial system, while data protection rules impede information sharing between the public and private sector and inhibit...
Data Management Summit Reviews the Regulatory Landscape
A-Team Group’s Data Management Summit hosted in New York City on September 20, 2018, included a lively panel discussion on the regulatory landscape and the data management response for 2018 and beyond. Eschewing the doom and gloom of many conversations about regulatory compliance, the panel, moderated by Dessa Glasser, principal at Financial Risk Group and...
Best Practices for Regulatory Reporting Efficiency
What is needed to get ready for SFTR + EMIR REFIT and how can you ensure your reporting infrastructure is ready? How can you improve the quality, consistency and standardisation of data? What are the foundations for granular data reporting and how are firms addressing the challenges of data collection? What is the potential for...
Suvrat Bansal Details Digitalisation at UBS Asset Management
Suvrat Bansal, head of innovation and chief data officer, and managing director at UBS Asset Management, described the digitalisation programme he is leading across the asset manager at A-Team Group’s Data Management Summit on September 20, 2018 in New York City. He noted approaches to digitalisation and implementation policies based on central capabilities in analytics,...
Podcast: Best Execution & Connectivity in a Multi-Venue Environment
How are venues and connectivity choices impacting best execution? How could linking to emerging SIs impact best execution policy? How are trading technologies such as algos being redesigned to trade in periodic auctions and other new trading mechanisms? What is the best method to evaluate performance and assess options for trading venue analysis and order...
How to Develop a Data Strategy that can Resolve Today’s Data Management Challenges
With regulatory compliance still at the top of the agenda and business demand for meaningful data rising, is your firm’s data management strategy effective? Listen to this podcast brought to you from A-Team Group’s Data Management Summit in New York City and featuring Peter Moss, CEO of the SmartStream RDU, to find out. Delivering a...