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Upcoming Webinar: The Data Office at a Crossroads — AI Governance, Organisational Design, and the Evolving Mandate of the CDO

Date: 28 July 2026 Time: 10:00am ET / 3:00pm London / 4:00pm CET Duration: 50 minutes Who owns AI governance in a capital markets firm – and is the Data Office structured to bear that weight? These questions sit at the heart of A-Team Research’s latest findings, presented here for the first time: the combined…

Precisely Adds Mainframe Software Visibility to ServiceNow Marketplace

Precisely has released Ironstream z/OS Software Discovery for ServiceNow, which automatically identifies z/OS software installed on mainframes and synchronises the inventory data with the ServiceNow Configuration Management Database. The latest product is available through the data integrity specialist’s ServiceNow Store. It enables the replacement of manual tracking via spreadsheets to establish a continuous system of…

Recorded Webinar: The ROI of Data Trust: Quantifying the Business Value of Data Observability

Data is the fuel that keeps modern financial institutions’ motors running but if that data can’t be trusted then the decisions made based upon it, or the uses to which its put, will be compromised. That’s especially important for data that’s fed into artificial intelligence models. If the data isn’t clean, accurate and complete, then…

10 Leading Providers of Cloud Migration, Scalability and Analytics Innovation

The practical evolution of financial technology has shifted from isolated on-premises deployments to highly distributed cloud architectures. This transition is not a sudden revolutionary overhaul but an incremental migration aimed at converting fixed infrastructure costs into variable operational expenses while unlocking computational elasticity. To execute this shift without risking operational downtime or compliance breaches, institutional…

A-Team Group Announces Capital Markets Technology APAC Awards 2026 Winners and Launches ‘State of the Market’ Report

A-Team Group today announced the highly anticipated winners of the Capital Markets Technology APAC Awards 2026. These prestigious awards celebrate the most innovative solution providers and financial institutions that are reshaping the capital markets technology landscape across the dynamic Asia Pacific region. In conjunction with the awards, A-Team Group has also launched the “State of…

Data Challenge in Private Credit Highlighted by FSB and Experts

The Financial Stability Board’s (FSB) call for better data provisions within private credit has highlighted a gnawing pain in the side of the rapidly growing market. The global watchdog, which was formed after the global financial crisis to help ensure another recession didn’t happen, partly blamed the lack of visibility into the loans and assets…

Data Now Front and Centre of Fixed-Income Trading, Bloomberg Forum is Told

As the operations of buy-side traders and their sell-side counterparts increase in complexity, their data needs have surged. Technology that has made it possible to compress the work they do into shorter time scales and with more effective outcomes, requires large volumes of information that is either generated by their own systems or has to…

The Business Conduct Risk and Data Challenge Behind AI Adoption

Poor data preparation for artificial intelligence deployments is exposing financial institutions to greater business conduct risks that could cost them as much as US$43 million per year, according to new research. An updated report by business conduct data provider RepRisk found that such AI-related incidents are on the rise as applications are rolled out at…

FactSet Integrates Private Markets Valuation Workflow with Valutico

FactSet has created an integrated valuation workflow for private capital markets in collaboration with valuation technology provider Valutico. The tie-up connects portfolio data, valuation modelling and reporting into a single system to replace manual spreadsheet tasks. Financial data from Cobalt, FactSet’s monitoring tool, flows into the Valutico platform where analysts can apply income, market and…

The ‘More Data Is Better’ Myth

By Edgar Randall, Head of Europe, Dun & Bradstreet. For years, business leaders have been told that data is their greatest asset. Collect more of it, connect more sources, and better decisions will follow. However, as organisations accelerate their investment in AI, analytics and digital transformation, this long-held assumption is starting to be challenged. The…