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As Finance Sector Workers Embrace AI, Study Warns ‘Be Careful What You Wish For’

The potential real-world impacts of hastily deployed artificial intelligence rollouts have been highlighted in new reports that underscore the need for better-quality data and greater literacy in the technology. Financial firms that don’t invest in creating greater workforce awareness of how AI tools can be used are at risk not only of failing to optimise...

LSEG and Bank of America Target AI-ready, Governed Data Integration in Multi-Year Partnership

London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) and Bank of America have agreed a multi-year strategic partnership centred on embedding governed, AI-ready data and analytics directly into the bank’s core workflows. Rather than a distribution agreement focused on access, the collaboration reflects a broader architectural shift: integrating unified, rights-cleared content, analytics and risk intelligence across advisory, trading,...

Infrastructure Modernisation, Intelligent Workflows, Data Strategy and More: A Preview of TradingTech Summit London 2026

The conversation around trading technology has become more exacting over the past year. AI is moving into production environments. Data estates are being rationalised and rebuilt. Infrastructure decisions are increasingly shaped by resilience, transparency and regulatory pressure. Against that backdrop, A-Team Group’s TradingTech Summit London 2026 takes place at a time when firms are reassessing...

Taurus Integrates Morpho to Bring Onchain Lending into Institutional Custody Environments

Switzerland-based digital asset infrastructure provider Taurus SA has integrated the onchain lending network Morpho into its Taurus-PROTECT platform, in a move that brings decentralised credit strategies directly into regulated custody environments. The integration enables banks and asset managers using Taurus-PROTECT to access Morpho Vaults natively within their existing custody stack. Rather than interacting directly with...

CGS Focuses on Hard-Won Privates Expertise Amid Buzz of Startups

CUSIP Global Services is leveraging its history of servicing syndicated loans, asset-backed securities, options, derivatives and other complex asset classes as it expands into the growing private credit and alternatives space. The Norwalk, Connecticut-headquartered provider of issuer and asset identifiers is working closely with financial digital platform FactSet, the Loan Syndication and Trading Association (LSTA)...

Softwire QnA: Turning Great Ideas into Data Solutions for Institutions

UK-based Softwire offers its financial institution clients expertise in leveraging data to achieve their operational objectives. Data Management Insight spoke to Sean Judge, Softwire Client Director FS&I to find out more about the company. Data Management Insight: Hello Sean. Can you tell us when and how was Softwire created and how does it serve financial institutions? Sean Judge: Softwire...

Defensibility: The New Watchword for Data Management

George Tziahanas, VP of Compliance at Archive360. Regulated enterprises are discovering that the hardest part of scaling new technology such as AI isn’t adoption; it’s proving those technologies are properly controlled. For financial institutions in particular – including banks, asset managers, insurers, and capital markets firms – this challenge is intensified by long-standing regulatory expectations...

MiFIR Schema 1.4.0 Rollout: Testing Clarity Still Pending – April Deadline Remains

As of mid-February 2026, the European Securities and Markets Authority’s (ESMA) MiFIR reporting webpage continues to indicate that a dedicated test environment for updated transparency messages would open in February, with exact dates to be confirmed in January. No detailed testing calendar has been published at the time of writing. The result is a compressed...

Sanctions Data Has Outgrown the Systems Built to Manage It

By Marion Leslie, Head of Financial Information, Executive Board Member, SIX. For as long as anyone in the industry can remember, sanctions in financial instruments representing holdings in sanctioned legal entities have been treated as a very specialist concern. They sat with compliance teams and were largely invisible to day-to-day market activity. The issue is...

Regulator-First AI: Vivox Brings Atomic Workflows to Compliance Operations

Artificial intelligence has become a default talking point in financial crime compliance. Yet for many regulated firms, particularly those operating across capital markets, payments, and treasury functions, the challenge is no longer whether AI can be used, but whether it can be deployed in a way regulators will accept. For Vivox AI, a young company...