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Modern Data Management Comes to Private Markets Rescue: Webinar Review
Private assets are firmly established as a major focus of financial institutions’ investment strategies, but many still struggle to apply the same technological rigour to their alternative portfolios as they do their allocations to public assets. This is through no fault of their own, and is almost entirely the result of the shortage of quality…
12 Sell-Side Data Management Platforms That are Transforming Capital Markets
Broker-dealers, investment banks and market makers are having to navigate mounting pressure from multi-asset fragmentation, compressed margins and increasingly stringent regulatory demands such as MiFID II and T+1 settlement cycles. Rather than executing sweeping, high-risk lift-and-shift overhauls, financial institutions are focusing on practical evolution: modernising data supply chains, unifying siloed front-to-back systems and replacing brittle…
From Interpretation to Scalable Application: What Year Two of the NAIC Principles-Based Bond Update Has Revealed
By Kate Lee, Global Head of Regulatory & Accounting Products, Bloomberg. Insurers have now spent much of 2026 applying the National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ (NAIC) principles-based bond definition through its second reporting cycle and are quickly approaching year three of implementation. This rule was introduced to modernize statutory bond classification, replacing an approach that…
Governing Unstructured Data in the Age of AI
By John Joseph, Senior Director, North America Revenue, Xceptor. The financial services industry is moving beyond AI that simply generates information towards deploying agents that make decisions in live operational environments. While this can deliver significant gains in efficiency, streamline regulatory compliance, and reduce the risk of human error, it has also increased scrutiny of…
Breaking the Reporting Remediation Cycle at RegTech Summit New York
At A-Team Group’s recent RegTech Summit in London, speakers described reporting operations dependent on manual workarounds, conflicting transaction data and knowledge held by a handful of people. Maintaining those corrective processes consumes resources that firms need for regulatory change. RegTech Summit New York on 19 November will bring that challenge into focus. Its reporting programme…
Is AI Changing the Market Data Business and Opening the Door to New Competition?
Artificial intelligence is prompting financial institutions to reassess how they source, consume and manage market data, potentially creating new opportunities for providers seeking to challenge established vendor relationships. As AI-driven workflows become more prevalent, data quality, governance and delivery flexibility are emerging as increasingly important considerations alongside traditional requirements for coverage, performance and cost. These…
The Always-On Exchange: Rebuilding Market Infrastructure for 24/5 and Beyond
US equity markets are moving towards a much longer trading day. Major exchanges are preparing for 23-hour trading, five days a week, while the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently devoted a roundtable to the operational, resilience, clearing and market-structure implications. Overnight trading remains relatively small – accounting for less than 1% of NMS stock…
EvaluateLocate Launches Kilometre-Level Model to Turn Local Economies into Investment Signals
UK geospatial intelligence company EvaluateLocate has launched Geospatial Predictor 2 (GSP-2), a predictive model designed to provide a continuously updated view of economic activity across the UK at one-kilometre resolution, as the company looks to expand its technology into the institutional investment market. The model produces current estimates and forecasts for more than 130 economic,…
Beyond Consumer Sentiment: Can The Real Feel Turn Human Emotion into Alternative Data?
Could the way people feel provide an early indication of changes in consumer behaviour and financial markets? That’s the proposition being explored by The Real Feel, a US-based data company collecting daily information on Americans’ emotional states to develop a new source of alternative data for investment research. Founded by former Reuters executive Lisa Hu,…
Pyth and Exa Explore New Market Data Model for AI Agents
Pyth Network and AI-native search provider Exa are collaborating to explore how AI agents can combine financial market data with web-based research, potentially opening up new approaches to data distribution, licensing and consumption as agentic AI becomes more widely adopted in financial services. The collaboration, currently in an early testing phase, brings together Exa’s search…