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Data Surge Argues for Enterprise-Grade Lineage: Webinar Review
The ingestion of growing volumes of data into financial institutions’ systems is posing a pressing challenge as data managers seek to optimise their data lineage, according to the latest A-Team Group webinar. Being able track data as it enters and is distributed within organisations is essential for prising the most value from that information. However,…
Meta Integration Drives Lineage Technology Directly to Clients
Meta Integration founder and chief executive Christian Bremeau loves cars. He speaks animatedly about motor racing, is a fan of the UK TV driving show Top Gear and admires its controversial former presenter Jeremy Clarkson. His fascination with the motor car also extends to his portrayal of Meta Integration’s newest product, MetaKarta, a metadata management…
Total Portfolio Views Unlock Value from Public-Private Investments: Webinar Review
Total portfolio views within investment management platforms are becoming critical to capital markets participants as private and alternative market assets comprise an ever-larger part of institutions’ investment and risk-management strategies. Having a holistic view enables organisations to unlock the greatest value from their data, a recent A-Team Group Data Management Insight webinar discussed. Aiding in…
Providers of SFDR Reporting Solutions
Europe’s ESG regulatory space is dominated by the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation, which requires listed companies in the bloc to declare the sustainability credentials of the funds they manufacture and the assets in which invest. Its intention is to give investors and advisers a clearer understanding of how sustainable investments are. Compliance requires the reporting…
Regulations in the Balance as Institutions Remain Sustainability-Focussed: ESG Summit London Review
Despite a perception that ESG is in retreat around the world, financial institutions continue to take the issue very seriously as a matter of risk management, a trend that continues to exert an influence on the data demands of organisations. It isn’t even the compliance imperatives of organisations operating in heavily regulated parts of the…
Making the Most of Mainframe Structured Data: Webinar Preview
Mainframes still provide the data and computational backbone of many financial institutions but some organisations are encountering challenges as they try to integrate them with newer architectures. Many are incompatible with cloud and server-based architectures as well as APIs. Work-arounds can be achieved but they require middleware that can be costly and time consuming to…
Data Standards Bring Many Gains (If You Have the Right Setup): Webinar Review
Standards and identifiers are helping to improve the quality of data used by capital market participants, but organisations with legacy architectures are finding it challenging to capitalise on those benefits, according to polls by A-Team Group. Half of respondents to surveys held during a recent A-Team Group Data Management Insight webinar said that data standardisation…
AI is Helping to Solve New ESG Data Challenges: ESG Briefing Review
The peculiar demands that ESG data integration places on capital markets participants requires powerful techniques that are increasingly being provided through artificial intelligence, A-Team Group’s recent ESG Data and Tech Briefing London heard. From data quality monitoring and analytics to supply chain analysis and investment management, AI-based tools are already offering automated solutions to some…
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…