A-Team Insight Author: sharon
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...
Sumsub and ComplyAdvantage Deepen AML Screening Partnership as Compliance Demands Rise
ComplyAdvantage and Sumsub have partnered to tighten AML screening by combining Sumsub’s verification and monitoring environment with ComplyAdvantage’s Mesh intelligence layer. The result is a more integrated compliance workflow that brings together customer and business verification and screening within a single platform. For Sumsub users, the partnership adds ComplyAdvantage’s screening intelligence directly into existing workflows,...
HSBC’s Canton Pilot Is a Milestone – But the Real Test Is Everything Around It
HSBC has completed a pilot issuing and settling its tokenised deposits on the Canton Network, the public blockchain developed by Digital Asset for regulated institutional finance. The bank’s Global Payments Solutions business simulated the issuance, transfer and atomic settlement of its Tokenised Deposit Service against other digital assets on Canton-enabled applications – the first time...
US ESG Pullback Opens a New Competitive Question
US resistance to sustainability disclosure at state and federal level is widening the regulatory gap for US-domiciled firms operating internationally. In March 2025, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) voted to end its defence of federal climate-disclosure rules. In December 2025, the White House issued an executive order targeting proxy advisers accused of promoting ESG...
FinCEN Overhauls AML and CFT Rules with a New Effectiveness Standard
Published April 7, 2026, FinCEN’s latest Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) is a sweeping overhaul of anti-money laundering (AML) and countering the financing of terrorism (CFT) programmes, recasting them around effectiveness, risk-based design and the fight against illicit finance. “For too long, Washington has asked financial institutions to measure success by the volume of paperwork...
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...
How Murex and Quant Network are Tackling the Tokenisation Operationalisation Gap
Tokenisation of real-world assets has crossed the $100 billion mark. DTCC has received SEC approval to tokenise real-world assets from mid-2026. BlackRock, Franklin Templeton and JPMorgan have live tokenised funds. The New York Stock Exchange is developing a blockchain-based venue for 24/7 trading of tokenised securities. And in the UK, a consortium of six major...
Post-Trade at a Crossroads: Re-Engineering the Infrastructure Behind Modern Markets
Post-trade infrastructure is entering a period of structural change unlike anything the industry has seen since the regulatory reform that followed the 2008 financial crisis. Settlement cycles are compressing, trading hours are extending toward continuous operation, cross-asset strategies are demanding unified lifecycle management, and the tokenisation of real-world assets is opening new possibilities for collateral...
Canoe and Bloomberg Advance Portfolio Analytics and Risk Workflows with Private Fund Data
Canoe Intelligence and Bloomberg have launched a certified integration designed to automate the delivery of private fund data into Bloomberg PORT Enterprise, addressing a long-standing operational challenge for asset owners managing portfolios across public and private markets. The integration is intended to reduce manual reporting and make private fund information more accessible within established portfolio...
S&P Global’s Private Markets Data Play: From Accidental Clearing House to Industry Platform
S&P Global, Cambridge Associates and Mercer have launched a joint private markets performance analytics product, the first commercial release from a collaboration announced last year. The initial datasets cover private credit and real assets, with private equity to follow later this year. For institutional data teams, what’s interesting about this launch isn’t so much the...