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Quantexa Raises Further $175m for AI-led Decision Intelligence Offering
Quantexa has raised a further US$175 million, boosting estimated market valuation for the UK-based decision intelligence solutions provider to $2.6 billion. The company said the additional money will be used to “progress against its mission to help enterprises and government agencies across multiple markets stay ahead in the race for AI-driven DI”. The latest series…
Ensuring AI-Focussed Institutions Take out the Garbage: A-Team Group Webinar Preview
As data quality rises up institutions’ AI-implementation agendas, the next A-Team Group Data Management Insight webinar will take a deep-dive look into how they can ensure the information they feed into their models will give them accurate and valuable outputs. Avoiding Chaos The data management maxim of “garbage in, garbage out” can’t be more appropriate for artificial…
Bloomberg Expands Climate Risk Offering with MARS Enhancement
Bloomberg clients can now use the New York-based company’s MARS risk management tool to assess the threats to their portfolios from climate change. MARS Climate, an addition to the data behemoth’s physical and transition risk suite of analytics, offers climate scenario analyses based on the framework devised by the Network for Greening Financial System (NGFS)….
Unleashing the Power of AI for Financial Institutions with Snowflake and Amazon Web Services
Financial institutions are among the largest users of AI, deploying it for a range of use cases that, while already wide, will broaden in the future. A report by the International Monetary Fund has forecast that institutional spending on AI will surge 29% to US$97 billion by 2027. The technology has become crucial to automation…
Zema Global Chief Girds for Soaring Demand for Energy Data
Since its acquisition of Morningstar’s commodity information business late last year, energy industry intelligence provider Zema Global has become an important data feed for financial institutions that invest in the net-zero transition and to those trading in renewables, biofuels and fossil fuels. The transaction was a prescient one. While the Colorado, US-headquartered company has been…
Databricks and Frisco Tools Seek to Simplify Workflows
A deal between Databricks and Frisco Analytics is intended to simplify data workflows and unify siloes across enterprises. The tie-up will make Frisco’s data management tool available to clients on Databricks’ Data Intelligence Platform. Clients will have access to tools to integrate data management and governance, improve data quality and consistency and accelerate analytics and…
Snowflake Bets it can Bring the Promise of AI to Wary Organisations
Snowflake has rooted its offerings more deeply in artificial intelligence, betting that its data cloud platform can deliver the promise of the technology at a time when many organisations are reappraising their approach to AI implementation. Among a flurry of new service announcements made at the end of last year, Snowflake unveiled plans to launch…
Predictions for 2025: Regulatory Climate to Impact Data Management as KYC Initiatives Evolve
By Cenk Ipeker, General Manager, Product Management, Cloud, NICE Actimize. As we enter 2025, financial institutions are likely to witness a shift toward more efficient, customer-friendly, and compliant Know Your Customer (KYC) practices. These changes will occur as institutions navigate an evolving regulatory landscape and technological advancements, with data management becoming a key focus area…
A-Team Group Announces Winners of its Data Management Insight Awards Europe 2024
The winners of A-Team Group’s Data Management Insight Awards Europe 2024 have been announced, with another crop of outstanding companies recognised for their innovation, expertise and performance. Established solution vendors and ground-breaking newcomers alike are acknowledged in the awards for providing leading data management solutions, services and consultancy to capital markets participants across Europe. Over…
BondWave Expands Functionality in its Effi Fixed-Income Platform
BondWave, a fixed income-focussed FinTech provider, has updated its Effi data insights platform to add new functionality for US Treasury data, trade analysis reports and other processes. The enhancements been made to Effi’s Portfolio Analytics and Transaction Analytics tools also enable users to more quickly access a larger pool of account statistics and analyses. “By…