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SmartStream Chief Jaffer Sees Rapid Change in Year at Helm

Just over a year into his tenure as chief executive of financial data automation provider SmartStream, Akber Jaffer finds himself surveying a data industry that’s changed enormously over his short time at the UK-based company. Chat GPT was a year old when he took on his new role and the artificial intelligence (AI) technology’s revolutionary…

The Data Year Ahead: AI Reality Check and New Skills Needed

If 2024 was the year when artificial intelligence (AI) came to the fore in data management, the next 12 months could see its spread ebb as financial institutions take a reality check and slow the frenetic pace of adoption. That, at least, is one of the many predictions for the new year from of a…

2024: A Year of Increasing Data Complexity

One thing was apparent in the data management space over the past year; the job of chief data officers became increasingly complex as the volume of data their organisations ingested swelled and the uses to which it was put expanded. All that despite the flowering of technologies with the potential to make life easier for…

Spend, Spend, Spend: 2025 Set to be a Year of Bigger Data Budgets

Next year will be one of rising data expenditure by financial institutions as artificial intelligence (AI)-led applications flourish, according to separate surveys. Nevertheless, most aren’t prepared for AI adoption, with organisations having neither the skillsets nor regulatory processes in place, according to another survey. The final flurry of industry studies for 2024 suggest that financial…

NeoXam Completes Acquisition of EZOPS

Data management provider NeoXam has completed its purchase of AI-enabled data control, workflow automation and reconciliation provider EZOPS, whose technology will be merged with that of its new owner. NeoXam said the capabilities assumed in the acquisition will provide clients with AI-enabled reconciliation, research, remediation and reporting tools. It will be deployed in a Software-as-a-Service…

A-Team Group Announces Winners of its Data Management Insight Awards Europe 2024

The winners of A-Team Group’s Data Management Insight Awards Europe 2024 have been announced, with another crop of outstanding companies recognised for their innovation, expertise and performance. Established solution vendors and ground-breaking newcomers alike are acknowledged in the awards for providing leading data management solutions, services and consultancy to capital markets participants across Europe. Over…

Spanish Insurer MAPFRE Links into Aladdin for Asset Management

Insurer MAPFRE’s asset management business has become the first Spanish company of its kind to sign into BlackRock’s Alladin investment management platform. MAPFRE AM will oversee the management of its US$60 billion portfolio of public and private assets on the platform. “The adoption of Aladdin will help us unify all of our apps and to…

Broadridge Tradeverse – When a Data Lake is Not a Data Lake

Hugh Daly, Broadridge Financial Solutions’ head of capital markets data and artificial intelligence, is being mischievous when he describes the company’s latest innovation, its Tradeverse data platform. “It must sound very much like Tradeverse is a data lake – if it quacks like a data lake and walks like a data lake, fundamentally it must…

Data Seen as Solution to Weathering Climate Stress

Recent stress tests of European financial institutions’ resilience to climate change have underlined the importance that high-quality data will play in fortifying banks, insurers and other organisations against the risk of transition and environmental losses. The region’s three financial regulators and the European Central Bank said that the results of their one-off “Fit-for-55” analysis found…

Temenos Harnesses NVIDIA Platform for New GenAI Product

Banking software developer Temenos has created a generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) product to help users of its technology to better manage and utilise unstructured data stored in their systems. The on-premises product has been built with the NVIDIA accelerated computing platform. Temenos’ proprietary model will sit on the NVIDIA platform, offering users “exceptional speed and…