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Ataccama Gathers Data Capabilities into Focused EU AI Act Package
As the implementation date for the European Union’s AI Act looms, financial institutions are having to put their data estates on a secure footing to ensure they comply with the wide-ranging regulation. The Act requires organisations to have a broad and granular view of their data in order to show that they can trace any…
ABBYY Q&A: Bringing Intelligence to Document Processing
ABBYY is an artificial intelligence-powered document processing tools provider that was formed in Soviet Russia in 1989 and relocated to the US nine years later. Data Management Insight caught up with chief executive Ulf Persson to find out more about the company and its plans. Data Management Insight: Hello Ulf, how was ABBYY begun and…
Private Market Data Price Rises Likely as Demand Surges
Demand for private market data is expected to continue rising as the growing popularity of the asset classes accelerates, putting pressure on feed prices. With no end in sight to market volatility and artificial intelligence enabling the sourcing of ever-larger volumes of critical financial and operational information, financial institutions are likely to increase their data…
Encompass Updates Digital Identity Service to Eliminate Stale KYC Data
More than a decade of Know Your Customer (KYC) regulations has left financial institutions with a potential time bomb in their data systems. Outdated and legacy onboarding data has the potential not only to lead to erroneous decision making but also potentially crippling fines from compliance breaches. There are many reasons why KYC data might…
Driving the Future of Capital Markets: A-Team Group’s Innovation Awards 2026 Winners Announced
A-Team Group is proud to reveal the winners of our Innovation Awards 2026, celebrating the visionary technology providers and practitioners redefining the landscape of financial services. Now in its sixth year, these awards recognise excellence in the deployment of new and emerging technologies across capital markets. This year’s recipients have demonstrated extraordinary ingenuity in solving…
Modernising Legacy Systems Amid Ageing Infrastructure and Skills Shortages
By Wayne Kiphart, CEO CloudFirst Global. The lack of IT skills globally is widely acknowledged but the problem is particularly concerning when it comes to older systems. As the experts who built these vital platforms retire, younger generations have not been trained in the skills to maintain the infrastructure nor, sadly, have they learnt their…
AI Agents are Rewriting the Future of Banking Data, Says Smartstream
Intelligent semi-autonomous AI agents promise a powerful solution to many challenges with the financial space. But their need for good-quality data is also highlighting the shortcomings that remain within some institutions’ data architectures. This apparent chicken-and-egg situation is one that Thomas Steinborn, chief product and technology officer at Smartstream, believes can only be resolved by…
SEC and CFTC Recalibrate Private Fund Reporting for Systemic Risk Oversight
The SEC and CFTC have proposed a substantial reset of Form PF, raising reporting thresholds and streamlining requirements for private fund advisers while preserving supervisory access to data on the largest and most systemically relevant managers. The proposed rule would lift the general filing threshold from $150 million to $1 billion in private fund assets…
Robust Data Management Still the Silver Bullet for AI Challenges
As the maturity of artificial intelligence applications evolves, financial institutions are finding that the solution to the challenges associated with the technology of data quality and trust can be found in data management. Guaranteeing good outcomes from their models requires that organisations feed them good data, and the only way to ensure that is through…
Private Market GPs Unhappy with Data Availability, Unsure About AI Value
General partners (GPs) within the private equity space are dissatisfied with the quality of data available to them at a time when technology is rapidly transforming the sector. Despite being upbeat about the prospects for deals in the coming year, fund allocators are more pessimistic about their operations amid a shortage of digital operational and…