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Recorded Webinar: From Data to Alpha: AI Strategies for Taming Unstructured Data

Unstructured data and text now accounts for the majority of information flowing through financial markets organisations, spanning research content, corporate disclosures, communications, alternative data, and internal documents. While AI has created new opportunities to extract signals, many firms are discovering that value is constrained not by models, but by the quality of the content, architecture,...

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Smarsh and AWS Target the Governance Gap in AI-Powered Surveillance

Smarsh recently reported what it describes as breakthrough results from its collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS), including a 77% reduction in compliance review workload at one global investment bank. The three-month deployment analysed millions of alerts and, according to Smarsh, produced a 2% decline in true positives. The results provide an early test of...

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Data Management Summit New York City

Now in its 16th year, Data Management Summit (DMS) NYC returns on September 17th 2026, to explore how to use data and AI to drive measurable business outcomes – reliably, repeatedly and at scale.

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Regulatory Data Handbook 2026 – Fourteenth Edition

Welcome to the fourteenth edition of A-Team Group’s Regulatory Data Handbook. Supervisors increasingly expect firms to demonstrate which rules apply, which data supports each obligation, who owns the control and how exceptions are identified and resolved. Policies and implementation programmes must now be supported by records that can withstand regulatory scrutiny. This edition examines material...