A-Team Insight Author: Jeri-Anne McKeon
Taming Data Complexity Through Semantic Layers: Webinar Preview
The complex data needs of modern financial institutions requires a level of technical mastery that is beyond the talents of most members of their workforces. Artificial intelligence and agentic automation, in particular, have hastened that evolution to such a degree that without such mastery across the enterprise, organisations leave themselves competitively vulnerable. The solution to...
15 Software and Data Vendors Solving Valuation, Integration and Reporting in Alternative Investments
The secular shift towards private markets has transformed alternative asset allocations from an institutional tactical sleeve into a core portfolio driver. Yet behind this expansion lies a stubborn operational bottleneck: alternative asset data remains inherently unstructured, fragmented and delayed. Unlike public equities, where standardised data feeds integrate seamlessly into order management systems, private market data...
EU AI Act Puts AI’s Underlying Data Problems In The Spotlight
By Sarva Srinivasan, Global Head of Strategies at NeoXam Americas Another important part of the EU AI Act has come into play – with Article 50 introducing transparency obligations for certain AI systems, requiring organisations to disclose when users are interacting with AI. Now much of the discussion around these requirements has tended to focus...
Sense Street Brings AI Workflow Automation to Primary Bond Issuance
Fixed income markets have undergone substantial electronification over the past two decades, but parts of the primary issuance process remain surprisingly manual. On busy new-issue days, salespeople can still spend significant amounts of time reading investor orders and amendments from chat conversations and manually entering them into bookbuilding systems. Sense Street, the capital markets AI...
BankChain Alliance Kicks Off to Build Next Generation of Banking Infrastructure
Banking associations from 39 US states have formed the BankChain Alliance to build an industry-owned and governed blockchain platform that will allow participating financial institutions to “offer emerging banking capabilities while maintaining the regulatory standards, security, and trust that customers expect from their banks.” Examples of services that will likely be provided by BankChain members...
US Treasury Launches Task Force to Coordinate Financial Sector Quantum Transition
The US Treasury has launched a public-private task force to coordinate the financial sector’s transition to post-quantum cryptography financial institutions, market infrastructures, technology providers and other private-sector participants. The Quantum-Readiness Task Force will organise its work around three areas: sector alignment and migration; third-party and vendor readiness; and risks involving digital assets and emerging technologies....
From Regulatory Noise to Defensible Action: Where RegTech Must Deliver Next
A compliance system delivers value when it helps a firm decide what to do next. That remains difficult when the evidence sits across internal policies, siloed data and external intelligence. AI can handle the volume and diversity, but faster analysis does not guarantee a better compliance decision. Firms still need to establish why an alert...
Bridgewise and the Expanding Universe of Sentiment Data
Investment firms today face a growing challenge with alternative data: how to turn an ever-expanding universe of unstructured content into something that can be analysed systematically. Social media, news articles, disclosure documents and, increasingly, podcasts can all contain information relevant to investment decisions. But before that material can be useful to quantitative or discretionary investors,...
What a $3bn YipitData Valuation Says About the Value of Alternative Data
Carlyle-backed YipitData is reportedly exploring a sale that could value the alternative data and analytics provider at between $2.5 billion and $3 billion, offering a useful indication of how investors are valuing proprietary data assets as artificial intelligence reshapes the information industry. The prospective sale comes as the rapid development of AI is prompting investors...
What the Regulator Wants to See as AI Governance Moves from Policy to Proof
Over the past 18 months, generative AI (GenAI) based solutions have progressed from pilots into mainstream investment and trading processes, including risk and compliance. With the exception of the prescriptive risk-based EU AI ACT, regulators across jurisdictions are relying on existing rule-books and adopting a principles-based approach, rather than publish AI specific regulations. To get...