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Being Prepared for Tomorrow Requires an Advanced Data Architecture Today
By Don Huff, Global Head of Client Services and Operations, Bloomberg and Maureen Gallagher, Head of Enterprise Reference Data, Bloomberg. Data has quickly become the hottest commodity in the financial sector: trading and investment teams are laser-focused on accessing the best, newest data to get an edge on the competition. While this arms race for…
Data Quality Posing Obstacles to AI Adoption and Other Processes, say Reports
The rush to build artificial intelligence applications has hit a wall of poor quality data and data complexity that’s hindering them from taking advantage of the technology. Those barriers are also preventing firms from upgrading other parts of their tech stacks. A slew of surveys and comments by researchers and vendors paint a picture of…
Clearwater Looking to Bridge Front-to-Back Office Tech Gaps with Acquisitions
It’s difficult for data and technology companies to fully service financial institutions’ front-to-back operations when behemoth providers are offering closely integrated capabilities at scale already. Clearwater Analytics, however, has a strategy that it believes will work not by necessarily competing with the big aggregators, but by working with them and filling gaps that they don’t…
A (Free) Practical AI Handbook for Capital Markets Professionals
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has swiftly transitioned from a promising concept into an operational reality across the capital markets. Senior executives, compliance leaders, and technology specialists are already well-acquainted with the potential of AI to streamline processes, enhance decision-making, and open new competitive opportunities. Yet, the current challenge isn’t about grasping AI’s transformative potential – it’s…
Data Usage Rights Patent is Music to the Ears of VendEx Boss
Richard Clements has a talent for explaining highly technical concepts in ways that make them sound as easy as listening to your favourite song. Which is apt, considering that the chief executive of VendEx, a vendor and data cataloguing technology provider, explains his company’s latest innovation with a guitar perched on a stand beside him….
AI in Capital Markets: Practical Insight for a Transforming Industry – Free Handbook
AI is no longer on the horizon – it’s embedded in the infrastructure of modern capital markets. But separating real impact from inflated promises requires a grounded, practical understanding. The AI in Capital Markets Handbook 2025 provides exactly that. Designed for data-driven professionals across the trade life-cycle, compliance, infrastructure, and strategy, this handbook goes beyond…
Data Hurdles, Expertise Loss Hampering BCBS 239 Compliance
A combination of data management hurdles, talent shortages and poor succession planning are bedevilling banks as they struggle to respond to a long-standing risk data aggregation directive – even after repeated European Central Bank (ECB) criticism of their compliance shortfalls. The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision’s Principles for effective risk data aggregation and risk reporting…
Rise of Data Products Excites Data Management Summit London
Squeezing the most value from data has become the key driver of data management innovation in the past few years. Among the tools garnering most attention in this quest is an approach that treats data as a consumer product. The theory is a simple one. By packaging datasets as well and data-centric services and products,…
Cautious and Steady Adoption of Unstructured Data Capabilities Advocated by Experts in DMI Webinar
Financial institutions are taking a considered approach to integrating unstructured data into their systems, exercising caution as they get to grips with the mushrooming data format and the technology that is enabling generation of it. At the most recent A-Team Group Data Management Insight webinar, experts and audience members alike attested to the growing importance…
Rethinking Data Management in Financial Services: Virtualisation Over Static Storage
By Thomas McHugh, Co-Founder and Chief Executive, FINBOURNE Technology. In Financial Services (FS), data management has long been centred around traditional database storage. However, this approach is fundamentally misaligned with the nature of FS data, which is process-driven rather than static. The industry needs a shift in perspective – one that prioritises virtualisation over rigid…