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EU’s AI Act Seen Strengthening Data Foundations but not Without Challenges
The European Union’s Artificial Intelligence Act, which went into force this month, has presented financial institutions with huge opportunities but also some grave challenges, each of which can only be managed with a strong data foundation. Industry professionals have said that the Act’s provisions, though extensive, can bring clarity to a muddled regulatory view of…
Generali-Natixis Tie-up Highlights Data and Operational Complexities of Asset Management M&A
By Jeremy Katzeff, head of buy-side solutions at GoldenSource. After much speculation, it’s now confirmed. The asset management industry welcomes another mega fund to its ranks after the tie-up between the asset management businesses of Natixis and Generali Group. The reasons behind the merger are the same as they have been for the last few…
Businesses Struggling with ESG Data that will Aid SFDR Compliance
Most businesses are struggling to prepare their data to meet a new European regulation that is designed in part to deliver huge troves of corporate ESG information into financial institutions’ systems. More than four-fifths of companies questioned in a study by data mastering company Semarchy said they lack confidence in their data management capabilities to…
Zema Global Chief Girds for Soaring Demand for Energy Data
Since its acquisition of Morningstar’s commodity information business late last year, energy industry intelligence provider Zema Global has become an important data feed for financial institutions that invest in the net-zero transition and to those trading in renewables, biofuels and fossil fuels. The transaction was a prescient one. While the Colorado, US-headquartered company has been…
FinScan Data Quality Chief Seeks to End Compliance Failure Excuses
The dog ate my homework. The train was delayed. The postman mislaid your birthday card. At one time or another, we’ve all used a weak excuse to forestall censure for an error of behaviour or judgement. And mostly, we’ve got away with it. In financial regulatory compliance, however, excuses won’t wash. Especially when it comes…
GLEIF Begins a New Decade in Growth Mode
The Global Legal Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) enters its second decade this month with its novel system of identifiers for everything from companies and their financial instruments to real assets fast becoming a global standard. While the next five years are expected to see yet more entities join the GLEIF’s open data project, the organisation’s immediate…
Snowflake Bets it can Bring the Promise of AI to Wary Organisations
Snowflake has rooted its offerings more deeply in artificial intelligence, betting that its data cloud platform can deliver the promise of the technology at a time when many organisations are reappraising their approach to AI implementation. Among a flurry of new service announcements made at the end of last year, Snowflake unveiled plans to launch…
The Data Year Ahead: More Data Formats and Use Cases
In the second part of our preview of the next 12 months in data management, we take in the views of experts who offered Data Management Insight their thoughts on a range of developments, including the increased use of unstructured data, the wider application of data sets and distribution challenges. 1 Data Governance, Quality and Technologies Ian…
Predictions for 2025: Regulatory Climate to Impact Data Management as KYC Initiatives Evolve
By Cenk Ipeker, General Manager, Product Management, Cloud, NICE Actimize. As we enter 2025, financial institutions are likely to witness a shift toward more efficient, customer-friendly, and compliant Know Your Customer (KYC) practices. These changes will occur as institutions navigate an evolving regulatory landscape and technological advancements, with data management becoming a key focus area…
2024: A Year of Increasing Data Complexity
One thing was apparent in the data management space over the past year; the job of chief data officers became increasingly complex as the volume of data their organisations ingested swelled and the uses to which it was put expanded. All that despite the flowering of technologies with the potential to make life easier for…