NICE Earnings Call Puts Reported Actimize Sale Update in Context
In what appears to be its first comment on the planned sale of its Actimize subsidiary, NICE Chief Executive Scott Russell told analysts on the recent Q1 earnings call that the company had been “working with advisers over the past several months” on a process for “non-CX assets”, which he identified as financial crime and...
Holistic Conduct & Surveillance: Unifying Trade, Voice, and eComms Data with AI
Holistic surveillance is moving beyond data integration towards an operating model that can surface cross-channel evidence, assign escalation ownership, govern approved channels, organise analysts around risk and keep AI-supported triage accountable to experienced human review. That was the central message of A-Team Insight’s recent webinar, Holistic Conduct & Surveillance: Unifying Trade, Voice, and eComms Data...
Where Institutional Alts Capital Is Actually Going – And Who Is Still Receiving It
Institutional capital in private markets is not just slowing, it is narrowing. A new dataset drawn from fund administrator reporting flows suggests that the share of assets held by the largest managers has reached its highest level on record, that all but one alternative asset class saw net outflows in the final quarter of 2025,...
DTCC Quantifies the Capital Case for Tokenised Collateral as AppChain Nears Q4 Launch
DTCC’s new research paper on tokenised collateral, published this week with consultancy Finadium, arrives as the business-case companion to a product rollout already well under way. A day earlier, DTCC confirmed that Chainlink’s Runtime Environment would provide the data and orchestration layer for its forthcoming Collateral AppChain. The paper now supplies the balance-sheet case institutions...
12 Leading Vendors Operationalising AI & ML with Robust Data Pipelines
The transition of artificial intelligence and machine learning (ML) models from experimental sandboxes to production environments remains a persistent operational friction point. While quantitative researchers and data scientists can often demonstrate alpha in isolated backtesting environments, the institutionalisation of these models requires a level of data pipeline robustness, latency control and regulatory auditability that research...
Dynamo Restarts the Roll-Up: InvestHub Deal Signals Next Phase of Private Markets Ops Consolidation
Dynamo Software’s acquisition of Paris-based InvestHub, announced on 12 May, is the company’s first piece of M&A activity in more than three years, and the choice of target says as much about where private markets operations technology is heading as the deal itself. Between 2019 and 2022, Dynamo bought at pace under Francisco Partners’ ownership:...
From Quiet Practice to Explicit Disclosure: How the Fed’s Alt-Data Use is Reshaping the Macro Stack
At the October 2025 FOMC press conference, during the federal government shutdown that had interrupted the flow of official statistics, Chair Jerome Powell did something the Federal Reserve has rarely done in public: he cited the alternative datasets from PriceStats, Adobe and ADP that the central bank was leaning on. For many observers of the...
Gresham-FundGuard Collaboration Widens Outsourced Total Portfolio Offering
Enterprise data management specialist Gresham’s latest addition to its portfolio of offerings has seen it forge a collaboration with accounting technology provider FundGuard. The partnership, which will integrate FundGuard’s multi-book investment accounting capabilities into Gresham’s EDM platform, takes the ambitious London- and New York-based company deeper into the tech stacks of financial institutions as their...
ARMs Get Their Own Trade Body as Transaction Data Takes Over MiFIR Transparency
A structural shift in how ESMA calibrates the MiFIR transparency regime has handed Approved Reporting Mechanisms (ARMs) a more central role in market data infrastructure than they have held since MiFID II went live in 2018. Under the simplification programme tied to the MiFIR Review, ESMA has discontinued the dedicated reporting flows on which transparency...
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...