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Study of Buy-Side Managers Finds Overall Requirements Rising Budgets Seen Rising 25% in Short Term
LONDON - September 14, 2011 - Bloomberg swept the board in A-Team Group’s Performance Benchmarking survey of North American valuations services for the buy side. The report – sponsored by SIX Telekurs and Standard & Poor’s and available for free download from www.a-teamgroup.com – surveyed buy-side managers on key trends, budgets and experiences with vendor services.
A-Team Group has re-launched Low-Latency.com - the premier online community for financial markets technologists who operate at the cutting edge. The re-launch adds further community engagement and networking facilities, to allow more discussion and debate of relevant technologies, issues and initiatives.
London, Dec. 15, 2010 — A-Team Group, specialists in news, research and events for financial IT executives, is pleased to announce that Filsan Ali has joined A-Team Group as Business Development Manager, responsible for Reference Data Review and Risk Technology sales activities, including the A-Team Insight online news service, A-Team’s new Valuations Benchmarking Survey and two new events for 2011 titled Data Management for Risk, Analytics and Valuations (convening in both New York and London). Filsan’s previous experience includes working for Bloomberg in a customer support role, and in trading services and market data sales at both the London Stock Exchange and FTSE International.
A-Team Group CEO Angela Wilbraham was a judge for an Excellence in Technology Journalism award from the Public Relations Society of America. The award was given to Stephen Bates, contributing editor, The Wilson Quarterly, and Jonathan Roubini, editor-in-chief, Lab Review. The press release announcing the award is reproduced below.
Asset Control and Avox to host Counterparty Data Seminars in New York and London next month
London – February 13, 2009 - Asset Control, a world-wide leader in financial data management solutions, is collaborating with Avox®, the business entity data specialist and a majority owned subsidiary of the Deutsche Börse Group, to help provide financial institutions with the ability to use fully verified global business entity data across their organizations. The current turmoil in the financial services industry has placed counterparty data management high on the agenda, and the need to quickly and reliably aggregate exposure to an entity and effectively execute risk mitigation procedures is becoming more crucial.
London – February 9, 2009 - A-Team Group (www.a-teamgroup.com), specialists in publishing, research and strategic marketing in financial information technology, is pleased to announce the launch of the Risk & Regulation IT online news service, covering regulations impacting global financial information technology and associated approaches to risk management. This new service is available now at www.Risk-RegulationIT.com.
OTC Valuations: Pricing Assets in the Post Credit Crunch World
London – October 7, 2008 - A-Team Group (www.a-teamgroup.com), specialists in market research, strategic consulting and publishing in financial information technology, has just published OTC Valuations: Pricing Assets in the Post Credit Crunch World. Produced in collaboration with industry expert Ian Blance (formerly of Interactive Data, the world’s largest supplier of valuations data), OTC Valuations is a timely and comprehensive report, covering:
Financial Information Technology Consulting & Publishing Company Continues Global Expansion
London – August 13, 2008 - A-Team Group (www.a-teamgroup.com), specialists in market research, strategic consulting and publishing in financial information technology, has hired Virginie O’Shea as an editor for A-Team publications. In this role, Ms. O’Shea will play a vital role in editing Reference Data Review, MiFID Monitor, and Asia Markets IT, and will contribute to A-Team Insight Quarterly magazine. She comes to A-Team with years of journalistic experience.
- Identifies opportunity for firms to thrive in new market structure
- Includes requirements of successful liquidity discovery and order routing systems
- Off-the-shelf solution to be demonstrated by Skyler at TradeTech in Paris
April 8, 2008, Concord, CA – A-Team Group, specialists in market research, strategic consulting and publishing in financial information technology, and Skyler Technology, Inc., the award-winning innovator in ultra-low latency trading solutions for the capital markets today announced the publication of an industry briefing entitled: “Liquidity Discovery in Post-MiFID Europe.” The briefing, co-written by Andrew Delaney, president and editor-in-chief of A-Team Group and Valerie Bannert-Thurner, Managing Director of Skyler London, provides a description of Europe’s new market structure as well as insight to help participants understand and benefit from these changes.
London - January 31, 2008 - A-Team Group’s new reference data portal — ReferenceDataReview.com — offers a wealth of free resources including the ability to search a fully categorized database of archived content from Reference Data Review – the newsletter of choice for the reference data management community since 2003. The new ReferenceDataReview.com portal includes the following free features:
NEW YORK, 18 September 2007 – Improvements in client and counterparty data management have three new principal drivers, according to an international survey by A-Team Group, a publishing, research and consulting company specialising in information technology for financial markets. Risk management, compliance and business development are the main reasons that financial institutions are now pushing to improve the aggregation of their customer and counterparty data, showing a more proactive approach to risk management and compliance.
New York, NY – July 11, 2007 – SunGard (www.sungard.com) announced the findings of a global study on reference data management completed by A-Team Group, a research, publishing and consulting company specializing in the use of information technology in financial markets. The study, “Buyer Persona: The Influence Behind Data Management Solutions,” which was sponsored by SunGard, identifies senior management’s backing as a key driver in reference data management strategy, concluding that 80% of the 30 firms interviewed have increased spending on reference data services over the past two years. In the near future, over 87% of these firms plan to extend the use of their data management platforms – with regulations driving a greater need for improved risk management and data quality.
NEW YORK, June 18, 2007 – OTC derivatives are shaking up data management processes in financial services firms, according to an international survey by A-Team Group. The research, commissioned by GoldenSource Corporation, studied trends in the management of instrument data and found that almost three quarters of respondents had, or were planning, to re-evaluate their data management processes because of the growing use of OTC derivatives.
Research Predicts increased investment, commodisation of technology, adoption of multi-core and grid
London - 19 April 2007 - A-Team Group, market research, strategic consulting and publishing specialists in financial information technology, today announced the publication of its latest research focusing on the Low Latency financial market data space.
Financial Information Technology Consulting & Publishing Company Continues Global Expansion
London – April 18, 2007 - A-Team Group (www.a-teamgroup.com), specialists in market research, strategic consulting and publishing in financial information technology, has hired James E. Hartley as Vice President of Research. In this role, Mr. Hartley is charged with developing research products on behalf of A-Team Group, as well as contributing to consulting projects and A-Team events. Mr. Hartley has been a key leader in furthering new capabilities and products in the global financial IT industry.
Financial Information Technology Consulting & Publishing Company Continues Global Expansion
London - 7 December 2006 - A-Team Group, specialists in market research, strategic consulting and publishing in financial information technology, has hired James A. Willis as Vice President of Marketing. Jim comes to A-Team with over 18 years of experience in the publishing industry. He joins several other recent hires, including Pete Harris, Thea George, Monica Summerville and Marion Hewitt, as A-Team continues to expand its business globally.
LONDON – September 5, 2006: A-Team Group, market research, strategic consulting and publishing specialists in financial information technology, has expanded its team to meet growing demand with four key strategic hires, Peter Harris, Thea George, Monica Summerville and Marion Hewitt.
May 3, 2006
XML for the Financial Industry
SIIA/FISD
Andrew Delaney and Peter Harris of A-Team Group, jointly presented ‘Why Bother With Standards Anyway?’ at the XML for the financial industry event held in New York.
The new world of market data – data latency and the consolidated versus direct debate breakfast seminar in London, hosted by Interactive Data.
AIM Survey Shows Basel II Driving IT Investments
Financial Industry Regards Data Quality as a Key Issue for Risk Management
AIM Software, the Vienna University of Economics and Reuters (LSE: RTR) have released the findings of the second global reference data management and risk management survey, based on phone interviews with 1,070 financial institutions across Europe, America, Asia and the Middle-East.
Monday, November 07, 2005 - As the fixed income market grows in complexity and is under an increasingly stringent regulatory environment, financial institutions are turning to evaluated pricing to provide transparency London — Global evaluated fixed income pricing is becoming increasingly accepted as an essential price source, said a survey* commissioned by Reuters, the global information company, and designed and conducted by A-Team, a leading research and analysis company focusing on the use of information technology in financial markets.
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