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ISS STOXX Brings Governance Scores into Corporate Rating Offering

ISS STOXX has integrated Governance QualityScore data into its Corporate Rating system, combining sustainability signals with governance analytics to assist investors in screening and portfolio allocation. The system converts decile scores from the Governance QualityScore into a twelve-point scale ranging from A+ to D-. Users can access the updated ratings through an analytics dashboard, application…

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…

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…

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…

Alteryx QnA: Automating Data and Analytics Transformations

California-based Alteryx has been helping financial institutions solve complex analytical tasks for more than a quarter of a century. Data Management Insight spoke to Jon Pexton, chief financial officer, to find out what drives the company and how its services benefit its clients. Data Management Insight: Hello Jon, when was Alteryx created and how does…

Testing Industry Perceptions at Data Management Summit London

Every year at the A-Team Group Data Management Summit we take the pulse of the financial data and tech industry on a range of critical topics of the day. We do this through audience participation questions during the day-long event, urging delegates to interact with speakers and other participants via remote voting on salient questions….

Reconciliation and the Silent Revolution Reshaping Financial Operations

By Sarva Srinivasan, head of global strategy and managing director at NeoXam, Americas. In most financial institutions, reconciliation has traditionally lived quietly in the background. It is often viewed as a necessary control process that ensures transactions, positions and balances match across systems and counterparties. Important, yes, but rarely considered fundamental to the business. But…

Data Management Summit London Sees Leaders Take on Critical Issues

A-Team Group’s 16th annual Data Management Summit London brought together data leaders from the world’s largest financial institutions to discuss the biggest data and technology issues and trends within their industry. Hundreds of delegates from all over the world gathered to hear the latest thoughts of practitioners in keynote addresses and panel discussions before breaking…