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Data Transparency ‘Crisis’ Hampering Private Markets: Report

Private markets investors are dogged by a “data transparency crisis” that is exposing them to greater risk of compromising their fiduciary integrity and losing their competitive edge, according to a new report. In what the authors call a private markets paradox, the report by Rimes states that investors are beset by a lack of data…

The Transparency Imperative: Forging Competitive Advantage in Private Markets Through Next-Generation Data Management

Private assets markets are growing in importance to the global economy, with asset under management at their highest on record. However, these markets – which comprise a growing list of asset classes that include private equity and hedge fund holdings, private credit exposure, property and other alternatives – are founded on outdated and high-risk data…

Revolutionising the Power of Corporate Actions Data

By Tim Lind, Managing Director of DTCC Data Services. We live in a deeply networked society. Information sharing has moved from primarily one-to-one communication to global networks where data and information is shared instantly and broadly. Across financial services, many organisations continue to advance their communications approach; however, integral corporate actions event data, such as…

Acuity’s Agent Fleet Offers S&P Capital IQ Data

Acuity Knowledge Partners, which provides research and AI services to financial institutions, is integrating S&P Capital IQ data into its Agent Fleet platform. The collaboration brings company intelligence, financials, estimates, transactions and professional data into the Agent Fleet platform. This enhanced offering builds on a foundation of more than 10 years during which Acuity has…

AI Emerges as Key Focus for the Buy-Side, Says SIX

Three years ago when Swiss financial data and market infrastructure provider SIX launched its first report together with Crisil Coalition Greenwich on the state of play within the buy-side, the subject of artificial intelligence barely made an appearance. Fast-forward to 2025, and AI dominates the latest report. AI is being deployed within a growing number…

Sanctions Screening Takes Centre Stage in Riskier New World: Webinar Review

Financial institutions are battling to comply with an increasingly complex and intense sanctions regulatory environment as they contend with “multi-dimensional exposures” across the globe, experts in a recent A-Team LIVE webinar said. Geopolitical tensions, economic conflict and rapidly advancing technological developments are posing new threats to national cohesion, economies and individuals, sparking a regulatory crack…

Bloomberg Adds 20 Hamilton Lane Private Markets Indices

Bloomberg has added 20 closed-end fund performance indices compiled by Hamilton Lane, a private markets investment firm, to its services. The indices will provide investors with data tools to evaluate and compare performance across asset classes. This collection of indices covers more than 7,000 funds and builds on decades of proprietary fund and deal-level data….

A-Team Launches Inaugural AI in Data Management Summit New York City

Artificial intelligence-led applications offer financial institutions the potential to do more with their data at a time when increasingly complex economic and geopolitical influences place extraordinary operational pressures on them. The technology is now being applied to all parts of an organisation, from asset and risk management to customer relationship management and regulatory compliance. A…

Why your Technology Spend isn’t Delivering the Productivity you Expected

By Gareth Evans, Chief Product Officer, FINBOURNE. An uncomfortable truth: technology spend in asset management has surged 8.9% annually over the past five years across North America and Europe. But productivity? Flat. Cost as a share of assets under management (AUM)? No improvement. Operational expenses in other functions? Despite the promises that technology would create…

13 Leading AI-Based Data Management Capability Providers

Institutions are facing huge operational burdens as they ingest huge volumes of data, demand real-time analytics and face stringent regulatory scrutiny. Consequently, the new data landscape is rendering traditional data management systems inadequate for the growing number of use cases to which data is being deployed. This has necessitated a shift towards modern data management…