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NICE Actimize Integrates Generative AI into SURVEIL-X for Enhanced Conduct Surveillance
NICE Actimize, the financial crime, risk, and compliance solutions vendor, has introduced an update to its SURVEIL-X Holistic Conduct Surveillance platform by integrating Generative AI capabilities through Actimize Intelligence. The enhancement is intended to improve the detection of market abuse and conduct risks, offering financial institutions additional tools to monitor employee communications more effectively. The…
From Pilot to Production: Navigating GenAI’s Transition in Financial Markets
The financial markets sector is accelerating its engagement with generative AI (GenAI), yet moving from proof of concept (POC) to production remains a complex challenge. Key questions continue to dominate industry conversations: What use cases are mature enough for deployment? How can firms embed the necessary controls to manage reputational and regulatory risk? What organisational…
Salesforce-Informatica Sale Plan Seen as Potential Pointer to Data Sector’s Future
Salesforce’s planned US$8 billion acquisition of data management and integration specialist Informatica has left data industry observers scratching their heads and trying parse the longer-term implications of the deal for the rest of the IT industry. The puzzlement comes from the CRM giant’s choice of purchase target, with responses focussed particularly on the overlap of…
Gaining a Holistic View of the Modern Investment Portfolio: Webinar Preview
The economic landscape has been transformed in recent years by a combination of technological upheavals, rising cost pressures on financial institutions and a rewriting of geopolitical and trading norms. All of these have inevitably led financial institutions to reconfigure their operations and the data processes on which they depend. The next A-Team Group Data Management…
The Future of Wealth Management: The Rise of Alternatives and Digital Transformation
By Tom Carey, Corporate Vice President, President of Global Technology and Operations at Broadridge. Wealth management stands at a pivotal crossroads, poised for revolutionary change that will fundamentally reshape the delivery, consumption and value of financial services. Global assets under management are projected to reach $145.4 trillion by 2026, with alternative investments growing at twice…
Fenergo Enhances Financial Crime Compliance Capabilities with Agentic AI Integration
Fenergo has introduced an updated financial crime solution – the FinCrime Operating System (FinCrime OS) – featuring a new agentic AI layer aimed at significantly improving operational efficiency within financial institutions. This development comes against a background of spiralling operational costs and rising compliance demands enhanced by geopolitical tension and regulatory flux. Marc Murphy, CEO,…
A “New Day” at the SEC: Key Takeaways from Chairman Atkins’ May 2025 Town Hall
Newly appointed SEC Chair Paul S. Atkins set a clear, bold tone in his first town hall, declaring it “a new day at the SEC” and emphasizing a return to the agency’s core mission: protecting investors, facilitating capital formation, and safeguarding fair, orderly, efficient markets. Atkins’ remarks provided significant insights for compliance professionals, capital markets…
Salesforce to Buy Informatica, Betting on ‘Switzerland of Data’ to Drive AI
Data management giant Informatica is to be acquired by Salesforce in a deal valued at US$8 billion, giving the CRM behemoth a cloud-based data business on which to further build its artificial intelligence ambitions. The California-based companies entered into an agreement for the deal, which will see Salesforce buy all the Informatica stock it doesn’t…
Standards and Identifiers Help to Prevent ‘Data Chaos’: Webinar Preview
Financial institutions’ absorption of ever-greater volumes of data, and their utilisation of it in a surging number of use cases, is putting strains on their data management processes. Taking the friction out of those workflows can improve performance substantially. But the absence of a unified international set of standards to ensure all data used by…
Overcoming Data Challenges of Rapidly Evolving ESG Space: ESG Data and Tech Briefing Preview
The rapid maturation of ESG data integration and utilisation within financial institutions has forced them to invest in new technology and data management processes. The rate of change, however, has been a challenge for some organisations, which have struggled to put in place the necessary capabilities to absorb, order and deploy such large volumes of…