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Driving the Future of Capital Markets: A-Team Group’s Innovation Awards 2026 Winners Announced

A-Team Group is proud to reveal the winners of our Innovation Awards 2026, celebrating the visionary technology providers and practitioners redefining the landscape of financial services. Now in its sixth year, these awards recognise excellence in the deployment of new and emerging technologies across capital markets. This year’s recipients have demonstrated extraordinary ingenuity in solving…

NetApp Updates Google Cloud Capabilities

Data infrastructure specialist NetApp has released updates to its collaboration with Google Cloud, providing tools designed to assist customers in using enterprise data for artificial intelligence workloads. These innovations include the general availability of NetApp Data Migrator and the Google Cloud NetApp Volumes Flex unified service level. The updates allow for the management of file…

Modernising Legacy Systems Amid Ageing Infrastructure and Skills Shortages

By Wayne Kiphart, CEO CloudFirst Global. The lack of IT skills globally is widely acknowledged but the problem is particularly concerning when it comes to older systems. As the experts who built these vital platforms retire, younger generations have not been trained in the skills to maintain the infrastructure nor, sadly, have they learnt their…

AI Agents are Rewriting the Future of Banking Data, Says Smartstream

Intelligent semi-autonomous AI agents promise a powerful solution to many challenges with the financial space. But their need for good-quality data is also highlighting the shortcomings that remain within some institutions’ data architectures. This apparent chicken-and-egg situation is one that Thomas Steinborn, chief product and technology officer at Smartstream, believes can only be resolved by…

Robust Data Management Still the Silver Bullet for AI Challenges

As the maturity of artificial intelligence applications evolves, financial institutions are finding that the solution to the challenges associated with the technology of data quality and trust can be found in data management. Guaranteeing good outcomes from their models requires that organisations feed them good data, and the only way to ensure that is through…

Novata Broadens Sustainability Regulations Monitor

Sustainability management data platform provider Novata expanded its regulatory monitoring service to include a premium tier for tracking global compliance obligations. The updated engine utilises 30 data points, including revenue and jurisdiction, to identify specific legal requirements for companies and investors. It combines AI monitoring with human expertise to provide clarity on which rules apply…

Private Market GPs Unhappy with Data Availability, Unsure About AI Value

General partners (GPs) within the private equity space are dissatisfied with the quality of data available to them at a time when technology is rapidly transforming the sector. Despite being upbeat about the prospects for deals in the coming year, fund allocators are more pessimistic about their operations amid a shortage of digital operational and…

Fitch Opens New Chapter with Data Distribution and AI Strategy

Fitch Solutions’ recent extension of its distribution strategy to include a presence on Snowflake is the first step in a programme of leveraging the company’s huge cache of credit ratings and research data. The move, which saw Fitch add its core credit ratings products on Snowflake Marketplace earlier this year, will be followed by other…

SimCorp Builds AI-Powered Market Stress Test for Axioma Risk

SimCorp has introduced an artificial intelligence capability for stress testing market scenarios within its Axioma Risk platform. The enhancement uses natural language processing to enable investment managers to design customised market scenarios and identify historical precedents without manual configuration. It identifies portfolio vulnerabilities and interprets risks arising from interest rate changes, currency movements or geopolitical…

Synechron-Cognition Collaboration Seeks to ‘Shift Paradigm’ in Software Creation

The race to harness artificial intelligence to create data products and software for financial institutions is at the heart of a collaboration between consultancy Synechron and technology developer Cognition. New York-headquartered Synechron, which has longstanding expertise in providing software solutions that financial organisations use to transform their operations, has embedded Cognition’s Devin agentic engineering platform…