Blackwired’s ThirdWatch: Powering Operational Resilience with Cyber Intelligence
For years, financial institutions have invested heavily in cyber defences designed to protect their own perimeters. Firewalls hardened, endpoints secured, and internal monitoring intensified. But many of the most disruptive recent incidents have propagated through third-party providers, software supply chains, or shared infrastructure. They are aimed at the firms banks depend on. The exploitation of...
Data Platform Modernisation: Why The Hardest Problems Are No Longer Technical
Capital markets firms pursuing data platform modernisation have largely solved the technical challenges of compute and storage, but the organisational, governance and architectural decisions surrounding those platforms remain stubbornly difficult, according to practitioners from Northern Trust, RBC Wealth Management and LSEG, speaking at a recent A-Team Group webinar entitled Data platform modernisation: Best practice approaches...
Experts to Take Stock of Data Silos and Lineage: DMS London Preview
Data fragmentation and lineage are two critical themes within data management that are intrinsically linked. Good data lineage can help overcome the impediments imposed by siloed data because it is an important aid in optimising data integration and utility. Both will be examined in detail by experts at A-Team Group’s 16th annual Data Management Summit...
Governance to be Scrutinised at Inaugural AI in Data Management Summit NYC
Ensuring artificial intelligence deployments are securely governed without stymieing their potential is a delicate balancing act. It requires carefully drawn policies, frameworks and processes. As deployment of the technology expands and its capabilities and complexity multiply, the governance structure must adapt and evolve. How to get this right is among the most important topics swirling...
LSEG Rebuilds ESG Scoring From Scratch
London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) has launched a new suite of ESG scores and sustainability analytics that represents its most significant overhaul of ESG data methodology since the Refinitiv acquisition in 2021. The new Sustainability Ratings and Data product introduces 220 standardised indicators, a threshold-based scoring scale running from 0 (“not aware”) to 5 (“leading”),...
LSEG Launches TradeAgent to Centralise Bilateral OTC Derivatives Post-Trade Processing
London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) has launched TradeAgent, a new post-trade processing platform for bilateral OTC derivatives, marking the first major product delivery from its Post Trade Solutions division since securing a £170 million investment from a consortium of 11 global banks in late 2025. TradeAgent targets equity and interest rate swaps, offering a centralised...
Most City Mega Mergers Test Tech More Than Balance Sheets
By Gus Sekhon, head of product, FINBOURNE Technology. The City loves nothing more than a takeover tale as old as time. A US$2.5tn US asset management behemoth snapping up one of London’s most historic investment houses for £10bn sounds like a story of global ambition and deep pockets. The Schroders brand stays, the headquarters remains...
smartKYC QnA: Accelerating Due Diligence at Scale
Hugo Chamberlain is the chief commercial officer of UK-based smartKYC, which has been automating the KYC process since 2014. Data Management Insight spoke to Hugo to find out how the company is helping financial institutions streamline their onboarding processes. Data Management Insight: Hello Hugo. When was smartKYC created and how does it serve financial institutions?...
Archive360 Girds Clients for Demise of the Single-Provider Data Pipeline
The future is fragmented. So says George Tziahanas, associated general counsel and vice president of compliance at data governance platform provider Archive360, who argues that the days of monolithic, front-to-back, one-size-fits-all data services providers may be numbered. Artificial intelligence has become both the hammer to break up single-provider data pipeline technology and the glue to...
Swap Data Was Supposed to Deliver Transparency. A Decade Later, Regulators Are Still Trying to Use It
For more than a decade, regulators have collected vast quantities of derivatives transaction data through swap data repositories (SDRs) mandated by post-crisis financial reforms. Yet despite the scale of these datasets, transforming reported trade data into meaningful supervisory insight has often proved more difficult than policymakers anticipated. A new Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the...