A-Team Insight Exchange is a new event series for 2010, which will combine A-Team’s expertise in financial markets IT with thought leadership from world-class technology innovators and practical experience from financial market practitioners.
Virginie O’Shea, editor at A-Team Group, was on the ground at this year’s TSAM 2010 conference at the Brewery in London. In this podcast she catches up with speakers from the show to find out the trends expected in the data management industry in 2010.
















Increasing volumes and the complexity of reference data in the post-crisis environment have left the middle office struggling to meet the requirements of the current market order. Middle office functions must therefore be robust enough to be able to deal with the spectre of globalisation, an increase in the use of esoteric security types and complex investment strategies, as well as rising transaction volumes. This has led many from the buy side and the sell side to consider outsourcing strategies for some of these functions, offshoring, in-house development or the acquisition of new vendor technology.
The rise in the number of chief risk officers (CROs) across the industry has been a significant phenomenon in the post-crisis world, but given that a board level risk function is a relatively new position, how should successes be measured? A recent discussion in a CRO Linkedin forum indicates that proactive risk measurement and management is the new buzzword with regards to judging performance and technology should be an integral part of this approach.
Last week’s reference data conference in London threw up a few interesting ideas with regards to leading the charge for reference data standardisation in the market, not least of which was the creation of a new standards focused body. In addition to a senior level data representative on the board of every financial institution, speakers and attendees alike discussed the need for a figurehead to drive forward the data agenda for the industry as a whole.




From the invention of the electric telegraph to the emergence of the Internet, new technology has constantly stimulated our desire for information. Nowhere is that desire more intense than in the world’s financial trading community, where survival depends as never before on instant and continuous access to market prices and market-moving news. The creation of that community, by a handful of pioneering information companies, is the subject of John’s book.
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