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Recorded Webinar: Client onboarding – how developments in tech and automation can help optimise entity data management and improve KYC

Financial services providers spend billions of dollars a year on Know Your Customer (KYC), client onboarding and due diligence. Yet even with vast investment, these processes rarely run smoothly. They also fall short of delivering a good client experience and fail to cut down on financial crime. At the heart of the problem–and solution–is data….

Data Driven Business Change Supersedes Digital Transformation

Digital business transformation must be superseded by data driven transformation if capital markets participants are to hold their own in a competitive market disrupted by start-ups and giants without the legacies of financial institutions. Driving the need to put data at the heart of business are regulation, such as GDPR, which calls on firms to…

SmartStream Air Integrates AI to Deliver Data Reconciliations in Seconds

SmartStream Technologies, a provider of transaction lifecycle management solutions, has released SmartStream Air, an approach to structured data reconciliation that allows business users to reconcile complex sets of data in seconds. The cloud-based solution uses artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms to auto-configure reconciliations of any data structure, and is available immediately. SmartStream says AIR data reconciliation…

Adopting AI for Superior Reconciliations

Firms’ reconciliation and exceptions management processes are manually intensive, expensive and prone to error. With rising compliance costs and greater competition narrowing margins in financial services, firms are looking to streamline their reconciliations processes through automation, giving them the opportunity to reduce the number of exceptions they manage and the time it takes to deal…

Knowledge Graph Technology – The Holy Grail of Data Management?

Data siloes are proliferating, data lakes are overflowing, regulators are asking for access to more granular data, and data management teams are looking at how to deal with enormous data volumes in capital markets, understand both structured and unstructured data, make data accessible and contextual for business users, and turn it into a strategic asset….

20/20 in 2020 – How to Gain Value from your Unstructured Data

Is your organisation looking to get better visibility of its unstructured data and gain value from the data? If the answer is yes, look no further and find out how to do this by joining a keynote that will be presented by Tony Brownlee, president of Kingland, at A-Team Group’s Data Management Summit in New…

ASG Develops Mobius Content Services to Meet Regulatory and Business Needs

ASG Technologies is developing its Mobius content services to help market participants comply with increasing regulation around personal data, and gain a clear overview of all their customer information and how it flows across the organisation. Mobius captures and manages content throughout its lifecycle, executes workflows, and governs information across federated repositories for a single…

Kingland Increases Accuracy of Text Analytics for Unstructured Data

Kingland continues to push the technology envelope with enhancements to its Text Analytics Platform Suite, which we touched on in last week’s catch up on the company with president Tony Brownlee. The enhanced solution includes new administration menu options with deeper analysis and metrics for unstructured data sources and events, and improvements to Named Entity…

Kingland Innovates to Meet Market Need for More Effective and Efficient Data Usage

Kingland is responding to financial institutions’ growing desire to use and manage their data to better effect and greater efficiency with the provision of solutions including artificial intelligence (AI) and text analytics. It is also focusing on firms’ ongoing challenges around core functionality such as entity data management for Know Your Customer (KYC), enterprise risk…

DataRobot on FactSet Adds Machine Learning into Investment Workflow

In early August, FactSet and DataRobot introduced an artificial intelligence (AI) investment workflow, DataRobot on FactSet, an automated machine learning (ML) tool that helps financial services firms – particularly those lacking significant data science teams – incorporate AI into their investment workflows. At the moment there is a shortage of data scientists within the investment…