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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…
There Is A Blind Spot In The Modern Data Stack That Will Kill The Buy-Side’s AI Ambitions
By Mihir Shah, adviser to FINBOURNE Technology. For a long time now, financial institutions have poured billions into building what has become known as the modern data stack. Data lakes, warehouses, ingestion pipelines and cloud platforms have all become the dominant blueprint for becoming a data-driven organisation. Yet the industry’s enthusiasm rests on a flawed…
GoldenSource Scout Launched to ‘Close Data Trust Gap’ Using AI
Data management provider GoldenSource has entered the next phase of its evolution with the launch of GoldenSource Scout, an AI platform for capital markets built on the firm’s Trusted Contextual Data Layer, which grounds enterprise AI in governed, canonical data. The launch marks a significant shift towards AI within the firm’s data management ecosystem. Swati…
Recorded Webinar: The Data Office at a Crossroads — AI Governance, Organisational Design, and the Evolving Mandate of the CDO
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 results of two landmark surveys examining the role of the Data Office in AI governance and…
3forge Seeks to Simplify the Complexity of Modern Data Management Demands
The high level of data and data product use-case customisation among financial institutions offers an insight into the challenges that technology teams face in managing their organisations’ data. Observability has become more difficult as each data user tailors their tech provisions to their own business needs and data provisioning must be similarly responsive at a…
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…
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…
Recorded Webinar: The ROI of Data Trust: Quantifying the Business Value of Data Observability
Data is the fuel that keeps modern financial institutions’ motors running but if that data can’t be trusted then the decisions made based upon it, or the uses to which its put, will be compromised. That’s especially important for data that’s fed into artificial intelligence models. If the data isn’t clean, accurate and complete, then…