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ace Seeks to Disrupt the Very Idea of ‘Digital’ for Financial Institutions

For more than a decade, financial institutions have been told to go digital. Data strategies have been written, platforms migrated to the cloud, and front-end experiences wrapped in slick apps. But for Niamh Kingsley, founder of ace, that conversation is already out of date. Her new firm, launched in November as a specialist post-digital advisory…

Arcesium Aquata Update Deploys AI to Give ‘Purpose’ to Extracted Data

Giving structure to unstructured data has become indispensable to private market investors, who must deal with what must feel, to the much of rest of the digitised financial world, like relics from antiquity – PDFs, spreadsheets, emails and even paper documents. But the question that hangs over many solutions is what next? What happens to that data…

Private Markets Growth Exposes Asset Servicing’s Infrastructure Gap

By Toby Glaysher, Chairman, FINBOURNE. Asset servicers face a paradox: winning business in the industry’s fastest-growing segment whilst discovering that growth erodes rather than enhances profitability. Private markets represent both strategic opportunity and operational crisis, exposing fundamental limitations in infrastructure built for a different era. When growth creates problems The expansion into private credit, infrastructure…

Reclaiming Value in a Shifting Legal Landscape: The 2025 Top 100 Settlements Analysis

While 2025 saw its challenges, the year ended on a high for securities litigation in the US marketplace, raising the prospect of an expanded rebound in 2026. The latter part of the year saw four settlements that exceeded $200million in value in addition to a single, significant settlement reaching $740million, providing a late-year boost to…

Bloomberg Compresses Delivery Times for Alternative Data

Bloomberg has launched Data Entitlements within the alternatives-focused ALTD function on its Terminal, integrating analytics from providers such as Placer.ai and Similarweb into the existing investment research platform. The service reduces the delivery lag of key performance indicator estimates to between three and five days, Bloomberg said. Richard Lai, global head of alternative data at…

Fitch Solutions Offers Clients Credit Data via Snowflake

Fitch Solutions has launched a range of credit intelligence datasets on the Snowflake Marketplace, enabling market participants to access credit ratings and loan-level performance data directly within the Snowflake AI Data Cloud. Initial offerings include US automotive and consumer unsecured debt metrics, with plans to add ESG data in the future. Credit intelligence platforms provide…

Arcesium Buys Swedish Asset Management Tools Firm Limina

Arcesium has acquired Stockholm-based portfolio and order management systems provider Limina to create a platform for asset managers and hedge funds. The transaction integrates Limina’s front-office systems with the financial technology firm’s existing middle- and back-office solutions. “With the addition of Limina’s front-office solutions, Arcesium will expand its global client relationships, providing investment firms with…

Data Fabric vs. Data Mesh: 10 Companies Provisioning Modern Data Architectures for Enterprise AI

As institutions absorb ever greater volumes of data to meet their increasingly complex operational needs and those of regulators, they face a dilemma of how to store and distribute that critical information. Fragmented legacy systems have long been an impediment to the smooth management of data and now corralling multiple-cloud configurations can be added to…

Agentic AI Deployment Presents Potentially Dangerous Data ‘Trust Paradox’

Artificial intelligence deployment in capital markets’ data processes may be approaching an inflection point that, if not managed properly, could introduce dangerous risks to institutions’ operations. The growing deployment of anonymous agents has the potential to hardwire data errors into workflows, magnifying data weaknesses as the automating technology scales processes, according Informatica from Salesforce. The…

7Rivers Q&A: Enabling Modern Data Processing

Milwaukee, Wisconsin-based 7Rivers gives its clients the tools to draw actionable insights and real-world applications from their data. A-Team Group Data Management Insight spoke to Jessica Emhoff, Vice President of Marketing, about the company and how it is empowering financial institutions. Data Management Insight: Hello Jessica. Can you tell us a bit about how 7Rivers…