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Financial Markets Need Explainable Agents, Not Black Boxes
By Cédric Cajet, Product Director, NeoXam. Artificial intelligence (AI) is fast becoming the newest arms race in financial markets. From portfolio construction to risk modelling and client reporting, firms are racing to embed machine learning and generative AI into their operations. Whether it’s faster insights to make better investment decisions or the ability to reduce…
Securities Litigation in EMEA Comes of Age: Your Guide to Complex EMEA Securities Litigation
Navigating the complex and increasingly active securities litigation landscape across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, remains a thorny challenge for investment management operations teams. Unlike North America, where virtually all investors passively await settlements, EMEA is characterised by active litigation, frequently confidential settlements, and the fact that many jurisdictions in EMEA are still grappling…
A-Team Group Announces Winners of its Data Management Insight Awards Europe 2025
A-Team Group has announced the winners of its Data Management Insight Awards Europe 2025, celebrating the latest outstanding contributions from companies recognised for their innovation, expertise and performance. Now in its fourth year, these annual awards acknowledge the leading providers of data management solutions, services and consultancy services to capital markets participants across Europe. Established…
Alts Investment Specialist Marshall Wace Integrates Bloomberg Risk Model
Financial and enterprise data behemoth Bloomberg’s Multi-Asset Class Fundamental Risk Model have been adopted by Marshall Wace. The liquid alternatives manager with more than US$70 billion in assets, will use the model for quantitative research and systematic investment strategies. The firm chose the risk model to get accurate forecasts and analytics for measuring portfolio risks…
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…
Video: From Silos to Strategy — Rocket Software’s Michael Curry on the Data Maturity Playbook
According to Michael Curry, Rocket Software’s President of Data Modernisation – data management has grown up. The job now isn’t to just accumulate and store data, but to see it, trust it, and use it regardless of where it lives. Leading teams now map end-to-end data flows, enforce shared definitions, and assign clear ownership so…
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…
Hidden Dangers in the Race to ‘AI-Readiness’
The data ecosystem has been awash with references to “artificial intelligence readiness” in the past few months, a reflection of the importance being placed on the technology within capital and private markets. The term is generally used in calls for institutions to upgrade their data management systems to ensure their data is of good enough…
Nature-Risk Data Proposals Hailed as Pathway to Better Investment Decisions
Proposals to improve the nature-risk data value chain has been welcomed by sustainability data leaders who said they will pave the way for better decision making and reporting by financial institutions and provide more detailed analyses for investors. The proposals offer a slate of principles to improve the quality of state-of-nature data collection and integration…
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…