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Sanctions Data Has Outgrown the Systems Built to Manage It
By Marion Leslie, Head of Financial Information, Executive Board Member, SIX. For as long as anyone in the industry can remember, sanctions in financial instruments representing holdings in sanctioned legal entities have been treated as a very specialist concern. They sat with compliance teams and were largely invisible to day-to-day market activity. The issue is…
Cardo AI Q&A: Shining a Light on Private Markets
New York and Milan, Italy-headquartered Cardo AI seeks to bring transparency to private markets for investors, banks and funds. A-team Group’s Data Management Insight spoke to co-founder and chief executive Altin Kadareja about Cardo AI’s mission and operations. Data Management Insight: Hello Altin. When was Cardo AI created and how does it serve financial institutions?…
ace Seeks to Disrupt the Very Idea of ‘Digital’ for Financial Institutions
For more than a decade, financial institutions have been told to go digital. Data strategies have been written, platforms migrated to the cloud, and front-end experiences wrapped in slick apps. But for Niamh Kingsley, founder of ace, that conversation is already out of date. Her new firm, launched in November as a specialist post-digital advisory…
Arcesium Aquata Update Deploys AI to Give ‘Purpose’ to Extracted Data
Giving structure to unstructured data has become indispensable to private market investors, who must deal with what must feel, to the much of rest of the digitised financial world, like relics from antiquity – PDFs, spreadsheets, emails and even paper documents. But the question that hangs over many solutions is what next? What happens to that data…
CFTC File Format Change to Impact Futures Data Management Teams
For futures commission merchants, clearing members, proprietary trading firms, and banks with material futures and options exposure, the transition of CFTC Part 17 Large Trader Reporting to FIX Markup Language (FIXML) is a test of data management maturity. This change directly affects firms responsible for aggregating, validating, and submitting large trader position data, often across…
Private Markets Growth Exposes Asset Servicing’s Infrastructure Gap
By Toby Glaysher, Chairman, FINBOURNE. Asset servicers face a paradox: winning business in the industry’s fastest-growing segment whilst discovering that growth erodes rather than enhances profitability. Private markets represent both strategic opportunity and operational crisis, exposing fundamental limitations in infrastructure built for a different era. When growth creates problems The expansion into private credit, infrastructure…
Data Fabric vs. Data Mesh: 10 Companies Provisioning Modern Data Architectures for Enterprise AI
As institutions absorb ever greater volumes of data to meet their increasingly complex operational needs and those of regulators, they face a dilemma of how to store and distribute that critical information. Fragmented legacy systems have long been an impediment to the smooth management of data and now corralling multiple-cloud configurations can be added to…
Agentic AI Deployment Presents Potentially Dangerous Data ‘Trust Paradox’
Artificial intelligence deployment in capital markets’ data processes may be approaching an inflection point that, if not managed properly, could introduce dangerous risks to institutions’ operations. The growing deployment of anonymous agents has the potential to hardwire data errors into workflows, magnifying data weaknesses as the automating technology scales processes, according Informatica from Salesforce. The…
7Rivers Q&A: Enabling Modern Data Processing
Milwaukee, Wisconsin-based 7Rivers gives its clients the tools to draw actionable insights and real-world applications from their data. A-Team Group Data Management Insight spoke to Jessica Emhoff, Vice President of Marketing, about the company and how it is empowering financial institutions. Data Management Insight: Hello Jessica. Can you tell us a bit about how 7Rivers…
UK Equity Consolidated Tape and EU MiFIR – Two Data Regimes, One Control Problem
The UK’s proposed equity consolidated tape is framed as a response to long-standing fragmentation in equity market data. By aggregating post-trade information and an attributed best bid and offer across trading venues, the tape is intended to provide a single, standardised view of UK equity trading. At the same time, transaction reporting under the Markets…