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Company announcement/ai

Communify buys Empaxis Data Management

Communify, the leading provider of Financial AI, Digital and Data solutions for the financial industry, today announces its acquisition of Empaxis Data Management, a premier provider of investment data management and operational services for wealth and asset managers.

16 October 2025

Company announcement/ai

Communify adds AI-powered Stories apps to scale personalisation

Communify, the leading provider of Financial AI, Digital and Data solutions for the financial industry, today announced the expansion of its flagship MIND AI Stories offering to include robust client-level data.

02 October 2025

Finextra TV/ai

What is Fueling Impactful AI Solutions for the Australian Market?

Whilst at the Communify Insights Experience in London, Will Bailey, President, International Sales, Communify Fincentric joined the FinextraTV studio to describe how Knowledge Bases help financial firms understand and trust their data sources. Speaking to his base location of Australia, Bailey shares how Australians, in particular, are struggling with managing data governance and how compliant, trusted sources of data are far safer and more insightful than simply relying on casual AI usage.

26 August 2025

Finextra TV/wealth

How Technology Has Democratised The Wealth Management Sector

Speaking with FinextraTV at the Communify Insights Experience, Andrew Bresler, CEO, Saxo shared his opinion on how wealth management is experiencing evolving transformation. Discussing how technology has helped to democratise wealth and provide more inclusivity, Bresler also describes AI as a company's exoskeleton: everything they can do but faster, better and more intelligent.

22 August 2025

Finextra TV/wealth

How Key Trends Are Redefining Wealth Management in 2025

Attending the Communify Insights Experience in London, Rupert Baron, Former CEO, Investment Management, Rathbones joined the FinextraTV studio and gave his perspective on what 'wealth' actually means in an industry of growing complexity. Defining wealth as a merge of investment and financial planning, Barron provided overviews on consolidation, private equity and AI, what it is that has driven such change, and how firms can move forward in the modern era.

21 August 2025

Finextra TV/wealth

How to Drive Engagement and Clarity Around Investment Decision-Making

Speaking to FinextraTV at Communify Insights Experience in London, Holly Mackay, Founder and MD, Boring Money explained what a 'bad' wealth decision is and how the industry can become more engaging. From storytelling to AI, Mackay shares her what she hopes will evolve within the industry across the next few years.

21 August 2025

Finextra TV/wealth

How to Turn Data Into Insight in a New Era of Financial Intelligence

Stepping away from a busy event, Leon Saunders Calvert, President & Managing Director - B2B, The Economist Group sat down with FinextraTV to discuss the role of data in a new era of financial intelligence. Describing how bigger data isn't as good as qualified data, Sanders Calvert helps to contextualise some of the key considerations when interoperating data in the current industry landscape.

20 August 2025

Finextra TV/markets

How the City of London Is Growing Its Identity as a Global Fintech Hub

Attending the Communify Insights Experience in London, Howard Dawber, Deputy Mayor for London, Business & Growth joined the FinextraTV studio to share details on London's identity as a growing hub for Fintech and how it compares to other global cities.

20 August 2025

Finextra TV/wealth

Do We Need More Client Solutions and Less Products?

Providing insights into where the future of investment technology should be headed, Bernard del Rey, founder and CEO, Capital Preferences described how the industry has typically been too invested in products and portfolios. What he believes should be the central focus for the future now are solutions that provide a better, clearer understanding of the end client in order to inform hyperpersonalization.

13 August 2025

Finextra TV/wealth

Wealth Management: Both Easier & More Complex Than It Ever Was

Attending the Communify Fincentric Experience 2025, Michael Smith, EVP - Business Development, Communify Fincentric spoke to FinextraTV about the seemingly conflicting outlook of the current wealth management industry. In some sense, Smith believes, there are more tools to make the process easier but, at the same time, it is harder than ever to be successful. Diving into client requirements and the definition of a good product, Smith provides his expert analysis of the situation.

13 August 2025

Finextra TV/crypto

How Digital Assets Are Leading Wealth Portfolios

Joining FinextraTV at Money 20/20 in Amsterdam, Waqar Chaudry, Head of Digital Assets, Financing and Securities Services, Standard Chartered explains the long-term outlook on digital assets in wealth portfolios. Providing examples of how cryptocurrencies, especially, have outperformed other asset classes, Chaudry describes how corporates, specifically, have become key drivers of this popularity. As part of this, he further explains how more traditional institutions can provide unique insights to this more modern innovation.

07 August 2025

Finextra TV/wealth

The 3 Most Compelling AI Use Cases in Wealth Management

As part of our new Future of Wealth Series, Joe Bonanno, Global Head of Data Analytics & Innovation - Citi Wealth, Citi joined FinextraTV to discuss some of the key components of the current wealth management sector. Specifically, Bonanno brings insights into how AI is being receieved across the industry and the ways in which it is particularly useful in relation to data inputs for large language models, task optimisation and research.

05 August 2025