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LSEG Data Now Available to Clients via Databricks

LSEG has expanded its partnership with data and artificial intelligence company Databricks to make more than 50 datasets from its Quantitative Analytics Database available on the Databricks Marketplace. The expansion utilises OpenSharing, an open protocol for sharing data and artificial intelligence assets, to grant clients direct access to financial and economic data within their Databricks…

A-Team Group Announces Capital Markets Technology APAC Awards 2026 Winners and Launches ‘State of the Market’ Report

A-Team Group today announced the highly anticipated winners of the Capital Markets Technology APAC Awards 2026. These prestigious awards celebrate the most innovative solution providers and financial institutions that are reshaping the capital markets technology landscape across the dynamic Asia Pacific region. In conjunction with the awards, A-Team Group has also launched the “State of…

Drive to Scale AI Makes Trust the Holy Grail of Data Managers: Webinar Preview

The race to implement artificial intelligence at scale within financial institutions’ technology stacks has made it imperative that they ensure their data foundations are solid. Without trusted data, AI is a potential minefield of erroneous outputs, hallucinated responses and inaccurate analyses. This compromises leaders’ ability to make well-informed decisions and poses the risk they’ll make…

GoldenSource Scout AI Platform Seeks to Bring Trust to Data

GoldenSource has launched an artificial intelligence platform called GoldenSource Scout, which is designed to help financial services firms establish trusted data context for AI models. The release follows findings from the InvestOps 2026 research report, which indicated that 98 per cent of firms are concerned that poor data could lead to incorrect artificial intelligence insights….

MSCI Buys First Street to Bolster Climate Risk Data Offering

MSCI has acquired physics-based climate risk data and analytics provider First Street as it seeks to enhance its climate risk capabilities. The US$120 million transaction coms as as financial institutions demand physical climate risk data embedded into workflows to inform decision-making during accelerating global climate risks, MSCI said. “The integration of First Street data into…

Informatica Data Capabilities Drive Salesforce’s Agentic Platform

Informatica’s integration into the Salesforce architecture has proceeded at pace since it was acquired by the customer relationship management software platform last year. The extent of that transformation is being demonstrated in a worldwide Salesforce touring showcase. In the glitzy shows, the role of the artificial intelligence-powered data management specialist’s capabilities within Agentforce – Salesforce’s…

MCPs in Data Management: A Fundamental Shift in Scaling AI

The breakneck development of artificial intelligence tools and applications is visible in the rapid emergence every six months or so of “the next big thing”. Generative AI was the big thing two years ago, agents were the big thing last year and this year it’s the turn of Model Context Protocols (MCPs). Attracting the “game…

Financial Operations Has an Invisible Tax Problem. AI Is Starting to Fix It

By Neil Vernon, chief product officer at Gresham. The financial services industry has spent considerable energy debating whether AI is production-ready for regulated operations. That debate has been asking the wrong question. Readiness is not the constraint; targeting is. The real question is whether firms have correctly identified where AI can address costs that have…

NeoXam Agent Attaches Automative Functionality to Platform

NeoXam has launched NeoXam Agents, an agentic artificial intelligence platform for building and supervising artificial intelligence agents, a set of specialised agents in preview and an early-adopter programme launching in the third quarter. The innovation attaches digital agents directly to the company’s existing products across the back and middle offices of investment firms to utilise…

Closing the AI Gap: Why Financial Institutions Must Move Beyond Pilots to Enterprise-Scale Impact

By Ravi Sidhu, UK&I risk and compliance solutions at Dun & Bradstreet. AI enthusiasm across financial services is at an all-time high, but measurable enterprise-wide success remains elusive. While UK businesses are moving quickly in AI readiness, with 52 per cent already using third-party AI platforms or modern cloud-native infrastructure to deploy AI workloads at…