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Driving the Future of Capital Markets: A-Team Group’s Innovation Awards 2026 Winners Announced
A-Team Group is proud to reveal the winners of our Innovation Awards 2026, celebrating the visionary technology providers and practitioners redefining the landscape of financial services. Now in its sixth year, these awards recognise excellence in the deployment of new and emerging technologies across capital markets. This year’s recipients have demonstrated extraordinary ingenuity in solving…
Modernising Legacy Systems Amid Ageing Infrastructure and Skills Shortages
By Wayne Kiphart, CEO CloudFirst Global. The lack of IT skills globally is widely acknowledged but the problem is particularly concerning when it comes to older systems. As the experts who built these vital platforms retire, younger generations have not been trained in the skills to maintain the infrastructure nor, sadly, have they learnt their…
AI Agents are Rewriting the Future of Banking Data, Says Smartstream
Intelligent semi-autonomous AI agents promise a powerful solution to many challenges with the financial space. But their need for good-quality data is also highlighting the shortcomings that remain within some institutions’ data architectures. This apparent chicken-and-egg situation is one that Thomas Steinborn, chief product and technology officer at Smartstream, believes can only be resolved by…
SEC and CFTC Recalibrate Private Fund Reporting for Systemic Risk Oversight
The SEC and CFTC have proposed a substantial reset of Form PF, raising reporting thresholds and streamlining requirements for private fund advisers while preserving supervisory access to data on the largest and most systemically relevant managers. The proposed rule would lift the general filing threshold from $150 million to $1 billion in private fund assets…
Robust Data Management Still the Silver Bullet for AI Challenges
As the maturity of artificial intelligence applications evolves, financial institutions are finding that the solution to the challenges associated with the technology of data quality and trust can be found in data management. Guaranteeing good outcomes from their models requires that organisations feed them good data, and the only way to ensure that is through…
Private Market GPs Unhappy with Data Availability, Unsure About AI Value
General partners (GPs) within the private equity space are dissatisfied with the quality of data available to them at a time when technology is rapidly transforming the sector. Despite being upbeat about the prospects for deals in the coming year, fund allocators are more pessimistic about their operations amid a shortage of digital operational and…
Fitch Opens New Chapter with Data Distribution and AI Strategy
Fitch Solutions’ recent extension of its distribution strategy to include a presence on Snowflake is the first step in a programme of leveraging the company’s huge cache of credit ratings and research data. The move, which saw Fitch add its core credit ratings products on Snowflake Marketplace earlier this year, will be followed by other…
Synechron-Cognition Collaboration Seeks to ‘Shift Paradigm’ in Software Creation
The race to harness artificial intelligence to create data products and software for financial institutions is at the heart of a collaboration between consultancy Synechron and technology developer Cognition. New York-headquartered Synechron, which has longstanding expertise in providing software solutions that financial organisations use to transform their operations, has embedded Cognition’s Devin agentic engineering platform…
Alteryx QnA: Automating Data and Analytics Transformations
California-based Alteryx has been helping financial institutions solve complex analytical tasks for more than a quarter of a century. Data Management Insight spoke to Jon Pexton, chief financial officer, to find out what drives the company and how its services benefit its clients. Data Management Insight: Hello Jon, when was Alteryx created and how does…
12 Companies Bridging Agentic AI and Data Management in Capital Markets
The friction inherent in mobilising data is a perennial problem for financial institutions, who have spent the last decade perfecting the passive data stack – investing heavily in cloud warehouses, governance frameworks and ETL pipelines designed to move data for human consumption. However, the operational reality remains plagued by manual intervention. Recent developments in agentic…