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Semantic Frameworks Slow to Gain Traction Despite Criticality to Data Democratisation: Webinar Review

Semantic layers have become critical to financial institutions as they have expanded the use of artificial intelligence agents and widened staff access to them. The sophisticated interfaces give non-technical users the ability to guide agents to interact with their firms’ data and build efficient workflows. And yet, few organisations have really got their teeth into…

Data Management Summit NYC 2026 Ready to Examine Rapidly Transforming Industry

Final preparations are being made for A-Team Group’s 16th annual Data Management Summit NYC, which will bring leaders and experts from around the world to take a deep dive into the drivers, themes and trends that are shaping the data industry for financial institutions. Over a full day of keynote addresses and expert panel discussions,…

Finbourne Puts Even More Humans in the Loop to Build Client Confidence and Business

In an age when many firms are handing over ever more functions to artificial intelligence, Finbourne Technology is going all-out with investment in human engineers to take the company’s investment management data and technology capabilities to its customers. Finbourne has launched the Forward Deployment Engineering (FDE) programme in which it created a team of 30…

NetApp’s ONTAP Gives Access to VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1

NetApp has validated its ONTAP platform capabilities to support VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1, enabling mutual customers to lower costs, recover from cyber attacks and deploy artificial intelligence software. First-party cloud storage services from the data infrastructure company are certified to support the cloud platform across major hyperscalers, enabling workload movement without code alterations. Alvaro Celis,…

Recorded Webinar: Building a Semantic Layer for Your Enterprise Data Estate

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 and value without having to use precise technical terminology. Data engineers achieve this through semantic layers,…

Rimes Configures Capabilities into New Fabric to Scale AI Data Workflows

Rimes has built out its data management and investment intelligence offering to give clients a new unified suite of capabilities that can accelerate and scale their artificial intelligence-powered data and workflows. Intelligence Fabric for Capital Markets adds new functionality to the New York-headquartered company’s services, seeking to meet the increasingly complex data needs of asset…

Ataccama Signals Product Focus with New CEO Appointment

Ataccama has appointed its former chief technology officer Martin Zahumensky as its new chief executive in a move that highlights the company’s focus on products in the next few years. Zahumensky replaces Mike McKee, an operations-oriented leader who had sat in the top seat since 2023 and helped to drive the Boston-based data trust company’s…

12 Leading Providers of Semantic Layers in Modern Capital Markets Data Stacks

Reconciling fragmented financial data across disparate trading systems, risk engines and regulatory reporting pipelines is a challenge that frequently results in conflicting analytical outputs, costly reconciliation cycles, and elevated operational risk under frameworks like BCBS 239 and FRTB. The enterprise response has been a move away from continuous database consolidations towards centralised semantic layers. Positioned…

Bloomberg Acquisition of Canoe Marks ‘Major’ Step in Private Markets for Data Behemoth

Bloomberg is to acquire private market data automation specialist Canoe Intelligence as the financial data behemoth seeks to expand its offerings in the booming market for alternatives data. In what the company says is one of the most significant deals in its history, Bloomberg has characterised the acquisition as the “latest step” in a multi-year…

Hexaware Clients Given Access to Factory Software Development Capabilities

Hexaware Technologies has partnered with Factory to deliver agent-native software development to enterprise clients across major sectors, including banking and financial services. The agreement integrates Factory’s Droid platform into Hexaware Technologies’ global delivery system. Hexaware Technologies previously deployed the Droid platform internally within its own engineering ecosystem. “We’re seeing 5x to 10x gains in production-ready…