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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/wealth

How The Future of Data is Personalisation & Scalability

Stepping away from a busy Communify Fincentric User Experience 2025, Nicole Nakashian, Chief Operating Officer, Communify Fincentric spoke with FinextraTV on the process behind product development. Discussing security and customer protection, Nakashian explains how events help to contextualise the importance of products and how the future will feature higher data personalisation and quality data for heightened scalability.

15 July 2025

Research/Reference dataImpact Study

Case Management: The key to revolutionising cross-border payments

25 June 2025 308 downloads

Finextra TV/regulation

Why A Common Standard Is More Important Than A Common Technology

In this FinextraTV interview at the 2025 EBAday in Paris, Tsvetanka Nankova, Managing Director, Global Head of Sales Institutional Cash & Trade Finance, Deutsche Bank visited the studio to discuss the future of data. Comparing the popularity of data conversations to those of AI, Nankova emphasises the importance of not taking data at 'face value' and instead interrogating its origins, compliance, accuracy, and relevance. On top of this, she explains the two-fold benefit of regulation like ISO 20022, explaining how a shared standard should be prioritised over a shared technology.

16 June 2025

News/markets

Global spending on financial market data hits $44.3bn

Global spending on financial market data and news grew modestly in 2024, with revenues rising 6.4% - far slower than the previous year - to $44.3 billion.

04 April 2025

Research/Reference dataEvent Report

Risk-based authentication: Enhancing security and user experience in fraud prevention

21 February 2025 277 downloads

Research/Reference dataImpact Study

Are you ready for CBPR+? Accelerating modernisation and efficiency through ISO 20022

05 February 2025 338 downloads

Research/Reference dataWhite Paper

UK Open Banking API Performance 2023-2024

13 January 2025 509 downloads

Research/Reference dataImpact Study

Catering to a new generation through unified card programmes

06 December 2024 252 downloads

Finextra TV/sustainable

Sustainable Finance Live Hackathon 2024 Winners: Established Category

Richard Peers, Contributing Editor, Finextra and Founder of Responsible Risk, connects with Rochelle Mountany, CEO, and Dicky Thomas, Operations Manager at Afri, to discuss the company’s 26-year journey and their win in the Established Category for the Sustainable Finance Live Hackathon 2024. After choosing the Challenge of enhancing nature through sustainable agriculture with large language models and geospatial data, this hackathon team created AfriGIS Ecohub that built upon Afri’s specialisation in data science to provide data driven insights to three groups – small holders, commercial farmers and financial institutions. By connecting these stakeholders with a single supply chain platform, real-time data driven insights can be leveraged to build upon opportunities to grow.

01 November 2024

Research/Reference dataEvent Report

Managing Fraud Risks with Synthetic Data

22 October 2024 278 downloads

News/sustainable

Sustainable Finance Live 2024: The role of ESG data in the nature capital marketplace

Founder of ResponsibleRisk, Richard Peers, moderated a session at Sustainable Finance Live called ‘What is the role of impact and ESG data in ensuring economic profit of nature capital in the marketplace?’, with speakers Cain Blythe, founder of Ecosulis and Credit Nature; Simon Crichton, head of nature, food, and resource at Triodos Bank; Giles D'Souza strategic business lead in remote sensing and GIS at Planet; James Lockhart-Smith, VP sustainable finance at Verisk Maplecroft; and Donna Lyndsay, strategic market lead environment and sustainability at Ordnance Survey.

08 October 2024

Research/Reference dataWhite Paper

Beyond Tomorrow In The Capital Markets

09 September 2024 219 downloads

Finextra TV/markets

Communify Fincentric Unifies Financial Data with Acquisition from S&P Global

John Wise, Chairman and CEO of Communify Fincentric, explains the backstory to the company's acquisition of Markit on Demand from S&P Global. Aimed at fixing the financial industry's persistent challenge of fragmented data, this strategic move unifies client and market information in a single platform, integrating over 4,000 global data feeds to enhance AI-driven insights for portfolio managers, advisors and self-directed investors. By merging these data sets, the business intends to set a new standard for the broking, wealth and asset sectors, enabling institutions to navigate complex data landscapes and drive growth in a digital world.

15 August 2024

News/markets

Communify acquires Fincentric from S&P Global

Wealthtech entrepreneur John Wise and PE firm Stellex Capital Management have acquired S&P Global’s Fincentric business with a view to providing digital experiences and financial data distribution to the wealth, broking and asset management industries.

15 August 2024

Research/Reference dataImpact Study

Fraud and AML Case Management: How to Operate at the Speed of Risk

16 May 2024 392 downloads