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Alveo and Gresham Merge to Offer Data Services at ‘Significant’ Scale
Data management software and services providers Alveo and Gresham Technologies have merged in a deal that the newly augmented company says will offer clients data automation and optimisation at “significant” scale. The new business, which will be known as Gresham, will be based in London with former Gresham Technologies chief executive Ian Manocha continuing the…
Informatica Sees a Future of AI-Focused Innovation Releases
Informatica has had a busy 2024, announcing major new innovations and partnerships as it brings artificial intelligence to the fore of its cloud-based data management offering. Last month the California-based company deepened its association with Databricks, providing the full range of its AI-powered Intelligent Data Management Cloud capabilities within Databricks’ Data Intelligence Platform. The expanded partnership…
Financial Firms Have Widest Data Security Perception Gap: Survey
The financial services sector has the widest gap between perceptions about its data security and its vulnerability to data attacks. A survey by data security provider Dasera found that 73% of institutions questioned said they had high levels of confidence in their ability to fend off ransomware attacks, data breaches and other unauthorised uses of…
French Election Reminds Asset Managers to Expect the Unexpected
By Sam Idle, Solutions Consultant at Clearwater Analytics. **The latest results of the surprising snap French election are a timely reminder for asset managers to always expect the unexpected. The knock-on effects on their investments can create a metaphorical line at the door from anxious investors with a million questions on how their portfolios have…
DMI Webinar Preview: How to Maximise the use of Data Standards and Identifiers Beyond Compliance and in the Interests of the Business
Data must be consistent, accurate and interoperable to ensure financial institutions can use it in their investment, risk, regulatory compliance and other processes. Without those attributes, they won’t achieve the efficiencies, surface the insights, action decisions or realise the many other benefits of digitalisation. Identifiers and standards ensure those attributes can be met. The challenge…
Duco Unveils AI-Powered Reconciliation Product for Unstructured Data
Duco, a data management automation specialist and recent A-Team Group RegTech Insight Awards winner, has launched an artificial intelligence-powered end-to-end reconciliation capability for unstructured data. The Adaptive Intelligent Document Processing product will enable financial institutions to automate the extraction of unstructured data for ingestion into their systems. The London-based company said this will let market…
Building Future Growth Around a Foundational Data Core: SIX’s Marion Leslie
There’s a neat symmetry in speaking to Marion Leslie, head of financial information at SIX after one of the busiest six months in the company’s recent history. SIX, a global data aggregator and operator of exchanges in its native Switzerland, as well as in Spain, has released a flurry of new data products since January,…
GLEIF Creates vLEI Advisory Board to Support Digital Verification Technology Use
The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) has formed an international, cross-industry advisory board to provide support for users of its vLEI digital verification technology. The vLEI Technical Advisory Board will help stakeholders seeking technical, governance and developmental support. Its membership is drawn from expertise within companies including Accelerate, Esatus and Prosapien and will be…
AI Startup BlueFlame Raises $5m for Alternative Markets Data Platform
BlueFlame AI, a start-up that harnesses artificial intelligence to help alternative market participants streamline their operational, regulatory and clerical processes, has raised US$5 million in a Series A funding round. The cash injection, which will be used to further develop BlueFlame’s AI platform, raises the company’s value to $50m, the New York- and London-based company…
Moody’s-MSCI Partnership Seen Impacting ESG Ratings Sector
Moody’s and MSCI have bolstered their ESG offerings with a tie-up that will see them share some of each other’s sustainability capabilities in a move that’s been predicted to concentrate global ESG ratings provision. As part of the arrangement, ratings provider Moody’s will gain access to MSCI’s data and models, which will eventually replace its…