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Why Sanctions Compliance Is Becoming an Intelligence-Led Discipline
By Theodora Papadimitropoulou, head of GTM & Strategy, Third-Party Risk and Compliance. For years, sanctions compliance was closely associated with a single task, running a counterparty’s name against the relevant lists, checking for a match and acting if required. How much that tells you, though, depends heavily on the provider and the data behind the…
Oxane Partners QnA: Growing to Meet the Data Needs of Private Credit Practitioners
London-headquartered Oxane Partners was created by two former Deutsche Bank credit traders a little more than a decade ago to serve the data needs of the then-nascent private credit space. It has grown as the market has broadened. Data Management Insight spoke to managing director Kanav Kalia about the company’s beginnings, its present and its…
S&P Global QnA: Adaptive Retrieval Smooths Data Access and Use
S&P Global Market Intelligence launched Adaptive Retrieval last month, promising to give clients greater flexibility in accessing and using the ratings giant’s data via their large language models (LLMs) and agents. Complementing S&P Global’s existing Deterministic Retrieval tool, which is built on the Kensho LLM-ready API, the latest innovation enables users to query and make…
How AI is Reshaping the Data Office in Capital Markets: Webinar Review
A clear split has emerged between the sell-side and the buy-side in their approaches to enterprise data strategy, with banks adopting a more defensive posture and asset and wealth managers more aggressive in their pursuit of modern capabilities. The divergence was highlighted in a recent A-Team Research and Element 22 webinar, entitled “The Data Office…
AI is Reshaping the Build-Vs-Buy Tech and Data Question for Asset Managers
The traditional data technology build-vs-buy decision facing asset managers has been blurred by artificial intelligence. Not only has the technology made the “build” option faster to achieve and more affordable, it has also reframed the notion of where exactly the building happens. At the same time, the risks associated with AI’s inclusion in the equation…
AI May Well Be a Big Accelerator, But Let’s Not Forget the Destination
By Chris Livesey, Chief Executive of AutoRek Everyone’s racing to add AI to everything, but are we clear on the finishing line? Across the financial services software landscape, vendors and end-user customers are chasing a new goal: how fast they can AI-ify or agentify everything that moves to claim unique differentiation and plant a flag for their brand as a…
12 Leading Providers of Semantic Layers in Modern Capital Markets Data Stacks
Reconciling fragmented financial data across disparate trading systems, risk engines and regulatory reporting pipelines is a challenge that frequently results in conflicting analytical outputs, costly reconciliation cycles, and elevated operational risk under frameworks like BCBS 239 and FRTB. The enterprise response has been a move away from continuous database consolidations towards centralised semantic layers. Positioned…
AI May Well be a Big Accelerator, But Let’s Not Forget the Destination
By Chris Livesey, chief executive of AutoRek. Across the financial services software landscape, vendors and end-user customers are chasing a new goal, in how fast they can AI-ify or agentify everything that moves to claim unique differentiation and plant a flag for their brand as a market leader. We’ve seen this cycle many times before, for example with internet, cloud…
Bloomberg Acquisition of Canoe Marks ‘Major’ Step in Private Markets for Data Behemoth
Bloomberg is to acquire private market data automation specialist Canoe Intelligence as the financial data behemoth seeks to expand its offerings in the booming market for alternatives data. In what the company says is one of the most significant deals in its history, Bloomberg has characterised the acquisition as the “latest step” in a multi-year…
There Is A Blind Spot In The Modern Data Stack That Will Kill The Buy-Side’s AI Ambitions
By Mihir Shah, adviser to FINBOURNE Technology. For a long time now, financial institutions have poured billions into building what has become known as the modern data stack. Data lakes, warehouses, ingestion pipelines and cloud platforms have all become the dominant blueprint for becoming a data-driven organisation. Yet the industry’s enthusiasm rests on a flawed…