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Duco Agentic Maturity for Reconciliation Benchmark Offers AI Adoption Map
Financial services companies and institutions are moving in large numbers along the road to agentic artificial intelligence maturity of their reconciliation processes. But many are caught in the no-man’s land between pilot and production as they grapple with the realities of operationalising models and agents. An inability to adequately assess AI before implementation, difficulties in...
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Quantifying the Business Value of Data Observability: Webinar Key Takeaways
Data observability tools help remediation processes keep quality in check and pipelines healthy as data flows at increasing volumes to end users. A-Team Group’s most recent webinar, The ROI of Data Trust: Quantifying the Business Value of Data Observability, examined the best practices, pain points and solutions for ensuring organisations derive the greatest value from...
Why Private Markets Need Numbers They Can Defend
By Gareth Hewitt, Founder, LemonEdge. Private markets run on confidence. Performance still matters but investor trust increasingly depends on whether a general partner (GP) can defend the numbers behind it and whether a limited partner (LP) has enough transparency to test and reconcile those numbers for itself. A capital account balance, valuation movement, fee calculation...
When Silence is the Best Measure of Success: ROI of Data Trust Webinar Review
When data observability and remediation tools work, the only measure of success is silence – nothing happens, no data breaks, no anomalies, no dramas. It might seem hard to demonstrate the success of something when there is nothing to show, especially when the business is required to prove the value of the process to secure...
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Precisely Adds Mainframe Software Visibility to ServiceNow Marketplace
Precisely has released Ironstream z/OS Software Discovery for ServiceNow, which automatically identifies z/OS software installed on mainframes and synchronises the inventory data with the ServiceNow Configuration Management Database. The latest product is available through the data integrity specialist’s ServiceNow Store. It enables the replacement of manual tracking via spreadsheets to establish a continuous system of…
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…
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…
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…
Advisory Summit Selects Finbourne as Fund Administration Provider
Finbourne Technology has been chosen as the strategic fund administration platform for Summit Group, a provider of fiduciary, fund and advisory services. The enterprise data management platform will consolidate instrument, pricing, holdings and transaction data from various market data providers, custodians and counterparties. This choice follows an evaluation process intended to upgrade the infrastructure across…
New Portal Offers SEI Clients Data Management Functionality
SEI has introduced an updated investment management platform that merges SEI Data Cloud with a portal named SEI Scope to manage data access, workflows and operations. Global investment managers collaborated on the system to cover the full operational lifecycle through automation and data governance, the provider of financial technology, operations and asset management services said….
ESMA Recognises ICE’s Data Indices Unit as Benchmark Administrator
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has granted recognition to Intercontinental Exchange’s (ICE) Ice Data Indices as a third-country benchmark administrator. This recognition allows one hundred climate transition and Paris-aligned benchmarks offered by the administrator to remain available for use by supervised entities in the European Union. The fixed income benchmarks incorporate ESG screening…
EXL Integrates NVIDIA Foundation Model to Expand Proprietary Data Use
EXL has integrated the Build Your Own Transaction Foundation Model developer example from NVIDIA into its artificial intelligence and analytics offerings, enabling financial institutions to build and deploy transaction intelligence applications using their own data. The application uses a foundation model designed to analyse billions of transaction events, such as payments, transfers and behaviour signals….
Diginex Adds Supply Chain Risk Tech to Platform
ESG, sustainability and compliance specialist Diginex has integrated Risk-to-Remedy as an end-to-end supply chain due diligence solution. The framework combines worker-level evidence, prioritised remediation and regulator-ready reporting to verify company declarations. It builds on the technologies of Lumen for risk assessment and Apprise for worker engagement, alongside the acquired expertise of The Remedy Project in…
Marathon Asset Management Hosts Investment Tech on SimCorp One
Marathon Asset Management, an equity manager based in London, consolidated its investment infrastructure on SimCorp One to retire legacy systems and establish a single data layer across the firm.The move extends a partnership that began in 2010, which replaces multiple vendor platforms with an integrated platform to automate processes across the investment lifecycle.The consolidation aims…
GoldenSource Appoints Ex-SimCorp Leader to New CCO Role
GoldenSource has appointed Jesper Cordes to the newly created chief customer officer role, in which he will lead global account management and customer success functions for the financial data management platform provider.Cordes previously worked at Enfusion as managing director of client services and spent 25 years at SimCorp, where he created and led the data…
Duco’s Post-Trade Agents Seen Substantially Reducing Reconciliation Times
Duco has launched an agentic operations platform for post-trade workflows.The platform relies on an engine that processes 20 billion transactions monthly for more than 200 clients, the financial services data automation provider said. Ten firms are using the autonomous agents in production, benefiting from a decrease in the time required to build a new reconciliation…
Data Governance Underpinnings of AI Still Lacking Says EDM Association
The EDM Association’s 2026 Global Data Management Benchmark Report states that organizations including financial institutions are increasing investment in artificial intelligence while failing to build the necessary data and governance foundations. The findings are based on a survey of more than 435 organizations across more than 50 countries. President of the EDM Association John Bottega…
Financial Institutions Among Targets for Motif’s AI-led Wealth Data Platform
Artificial intelligence wealth advisory company Motif has launched an artificial intelligence financial intelligence system called Clarity, which tracks links between markets, assets and financial relationships alongside how and why they alter over time. Financial institutions can combine the platform into products to allow customers to make investment decisions, whilst analysts and product teams can use…
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Gresham Names Spiros Giannaros to Replace Mark Hepsworth as CEO
Gresham has appointed Spiros Giannaros as chief executive to succeed Mark Hepsworth at the enterprise data automation company for financial services firms. Giannaros previously spent more than 25 years in capital markets software, serving as chief executive at Charles River Development and partner at Markit, where he led the business that Gresham acquired in 2026….
Fenergo Names Lekshmi Nair as CRO
Client lifecycle management specialist Fenergo has appointed Lekshmi Nair as chief revenue officer to lead the global go-to-market organisation and commercial operations. Nair previously worked at Finastra, formerly Misys, where she held roles in software development, delivery, platform sales and enterprise leadership before serving as global chief revenue officer for lending. Based in London, Nair…
Former Quantexa Risk Head Patel Hired by AI-Specialist Galytix
Galytix, an AI firm for financial institutions, has hired former Quantexa leader Roshni Patel as chief growth officer, charged with accelerating global expansion. Patel previously worked at Quantexa as global head of risk solutions, following more than 20 years at KPMG, Lloyds Banking Group and Moody’s Analytics. As chief growth officer, he will manage global…
Xceptor Names Former Pershing Leader Dalla Brookshire as New CPO
Xceptor has appointed former Pershing and Vanguard leader Sareena Dalla Brookshire to the newly created position of chief product officer to help the capital markets data automation specialist advance its artificial intelligence product programme. Dalla Brookshire, who has almost two decades of experience working in capital markets, is based in New York and will focus…
Finastra Governance Chief Elected to DAMA International Leadership Team
Finastra’s global head of data governance, Peter Vennel, has been elected vice president at data management professional group DAMA International. Vennel will serve a three-year term focusing on global strategy and member support for the association. The position involves chairing the Governance and Nominations Committee and participating in the Finance Committee to provide organisational oversight….
GLEIF Appoints Former Finoa Chief to New COFO Role
The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation has appointed Michaela Fleischer as its inaugural chief operating and financial officer. Fleischer previously served as COO at Finoa and held leadership positions at Deutsche Bank, N26, Holvi and Revolut. Based in Frankfurt am Main as managing director of GLEIF Germany, Fleischer reports to the chief executive and oversees…
Innovative Systems Appoints London-Based Revenue Chief
Data quality and AML compliance technology provider Innovative Systems appointed Ben Sher as chief revenue officer to lead global revenue strategy and commercial expansion. Sher previously spent more than 20 years in fintech and enterprise software roles, most recently serving as managing director and head of sales for EMEA at SimCorp. Based in Innovative Systems’…
GRI Names New Chair of Standards Board
The Global Reporting Initiative has appointed Susanne Stormer as chair of the Global Sustainability Standards Board to oversee the setting of GRI Standards. , GRI provides sustainability reporting standards for companies. Stormer previously served as a Partner at PwC Denmark for four years and as Vice President of Corporate Sustainability at Novo Nordisk for 13…
Rimes Names New Executive to Helm Commercial Development
Rimes has appointed Kieran Kennedy as Chief Revenue Officer to oversee commercial evolution at enterprise data management and investment intelligence provider. Kennedy previously served as Global Vice President of Data Cloud Product Partnerships at Snowflake and spent 30 years at FactSet in roles across global sales, product development and strategic partnerships. The position involves managing…
Sustainability Software Firm Diginex Appoints Deputy Chair to Lead Governance, Mergers
Lorenzo Romano has been named Deputy Chair of sustainability software provider Diginex Limited to oversee corporate governance and mergers. Romano previously worked at EFG Bank as head of private banking for Geneva and spent several years at Syz Group in senior leadership roles. Based in the expanded leadership team, he will report to the board…
SimCorp Appoints Iyan Adewuya as Chief Product Officer
SimCorp has appointed Iyan Adewuya to the newly created position of Chief Product Officer (CPO). Based in New York, Adewuya will report directly to Marc Schröter, the Chief Product and Technology Officer. He brings over 20 years of experience in product strategy and innovation to the company, with a career that covers both public and…
Rimes Names New APAC and EDM Sales Leaders
Data management and investment intelligence solutions provider Rimes has appointment Ross Allen as head of the Asia and Pacific region and Bill Blythe as global head of EDM sales. Allen previously held senior leadership roles, including head of financial markets APAC, during 25 years at IHS Markit (now S&P Global) and was chief commercial officer…
SimCorp Appoints New Sales, Engineering Leaders in Singapore
SimCorp, a global financial technology company, has appointed Jesper Tyrer as head of sales, APAC, and Medi Tuku as head of solutions engineering, APAC. Tyrer and Tuku previously worked at BlackRock, where Tyrer spent eight years, most recently as head of APAC Aladdin Business Development, and Tuku served as head of pre-Sales for BlackRock Aladdin…
JMAN Appoints Kaushik Ravi as Chief of Staff to Chief Technology Officer
JMAN Group, a data provider for private-equity funds, has appointed Kaushik Ravi as Chief of Staff to the CTO. Ravi previously co-founded TODAC, a management consulting firm for technology-based products and services, and has experience with firms including Cognizant and Agilisium. Ravi will work with CTO Leo Valan to drive strategic planning and operational execution…
Private Markets Tech Provider Inveniam Names Two New Senior Hires
Private markets data infrastructure provider Inveniam has named former Moody’s Analytics leader Michael Salk as chief customer officer of its data management platform. Former AirWave Lease Insights executive Christopher Ward has been appointed managing director for strategic solutions and partnerships. Salk, who has more than 25 years experience in finance and media is “a proven…
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Date: 22 September 2026 Time: 10:00am ET / 3:00pm London / 4:00pm CET Duration: 50 minutes Cloud-based services and processing have become essential to financial institutions as their data management demands have become more complex and expansive. Thousands of organisations have made the jump from their limited on-premises tech stacks to the near-infinite scalability opportunities…
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AI in Capital Markets Handbook 2026
AI adoption in capital markets has moved into a more disciplined phase. The priority is now controlled deployment: where AI can be used safely, where it can deliver measurable value, and how outputs can be governed, monitored and evidenced. The 2026 edition of the AI in Capital Markets Handbook examines how AI is being applied…
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The Future of AI in Compliance Recording
In an era of escalating regulatory pressure, financial institutions can leverage artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models (LLMs) to transform compliance from a cost burden into a strategic competitive advantage. These technologies, applied to sophisticated monitoring systems, generate structured, high-quality data at scale, converting what was once a static compliance archive into a source...
Reclaiming Value in a Shifting Legal Landscape: The 2025 Top 100 Settlements Analysis
While 2025 saw its challenges, the year ended on a high for securities litigation in the US marketplace, raising the prospect of an expanded rebound in 2026. The latter part of the year saw four settlements that exceeded $200million in value in addition to a single, significant settlement reaching $740million, providing a late-year boost to...
Securities Litigation in EMEA Comes of Age: Your Guide to Complex EMEA Securities Litigation
Navigating the complex and increasingly active securities litigation landscape across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, remains a thorny challenge for investment management operations teams. Unlike North America, where virtually all investors passively await settlements, EMEA is characterised by active litigation, frequently confidential settlements, and the fact that many jurisdictions in EMEA are still grappling...
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Upcoming Webinar: The Data Office at a Crossroads — AI Governance, Organisational Design, and the Evolving Mandate of the CDO
Date: 28 July 2026 Time: 10:00am ET / 3:00pm London / 4:00pm CET Duration: 50 minutes Who owns AI governance in a capital markets firm – and is the Data Office structured to bear that weight? These questions sit at the heart of A-Team Research’s latest findings, presented here for the first time: the combined...
Upcoming Webinar: Building a Semantic Layer for Your Enterprise Data Estate
Date: 8 September 2026 Time: 10:00am ET / 3:00pm London / 4:00pm CET Duration: 50 minutes The democratisation of data has encouraged engineers to think about how to make their data estates more accessible and useable for non-technical business end-users. Translating intention into data action requires careful configuration that enables consumers to mine insight, analytics...
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Now in its 15th year the Data Management Summit NYC brings together the North American data management community to explore how data strategy is evolving to drive business outcomes and speed to market in changing times.
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We are thrilled to unveil the winners of the 2026 A-Team Innovation Awards. These awards celebrate successful projects within financial institutions (both with vendor support and without) across the financial enterprise.
