White papers, events and workshops

The conversations at this year’s Banking Transformation Summit reflected an industry moving beyond experimentation and into more difficult operational questions. Across AI, customer experience, data governance and modernisation, the focus has shifted noticeably from ideas and pilots towards ...

Unlocking the future of AI in financial services: Insights from industry leaders Artificial intelligence is moving decisively from experimentation into practical application across financial services. Conversations at a recent NextWave forum, held under Chatham House Rules, brought together senior ...

Transaction reporting is often viewed by financial institutions as a regulatory obligation rather than a strategic priority. This approach ignores a crucial fact: transaction reporting errors can result in significant regulatory scrutiny, remediation costs, and financial penalties.

Agentic AI is transforming financial services, moving beyond automation and predictive analytics to autonomous systems that make decisions, orchestrate workflows, and act across complex enterprise environments. Unlike conventional AI that analyses data or generates recommendations, agentic systems ...

Over the past few weeks, I’ve been working on a project that I’m excited to finally share: a fully automated data validation tool built end-to-end in Alteryx. The goal is simple – help teams quickly evaluate the quality, consistency, and reliability of their tabular datasets before those datasets ...

Enhancing correspondent banking compliance with Quantexa Introduction Correspondent banking compliance is facing unprecedented pressure. Rising transaction volumes, increasingly complex financial crime typologies, and heightened regulatory scrutiny are exposing the limitations of traditional ...

Introduction Major banks that have been using Quantexa for several years often manage multiple use cases, have established development teams, and possess strong platform knowledge. Yet many still rely on external consultants for complex implementations, tuning activities, and platform upgrades.

For many CFOs, S-OX compliance is a costly, time-consuming burden. Each quarter, finance and risk teams reconcile data across multiple systems, test controls, and compile audit evidence; often through spreadsheets and emails. These fragmented processes slow reporting and increase the risk of error.

In a previous role, I went to war on spreadsheets as the biggest airbrake and inhibitor to change in the Finance function. Spreadsheets for every output sucked the oxygen out of the room. They required the owners, who were also typically the subject matter experts, to manually operate them for any ...

Nagpur & Pune, India – 15 October 2025 — NextWave Consulting is delighted to announce the launch of NextWave Labs, its new Global Capability Centre (GCC) located in Nagpur and Pune, India. This expansion marks an important milestone in NextWave’s global growth strategy, strengthening the firm’s ...

We're thrilled to announce our partnership with Toca.

London, UK – 1 October 2025 – NextWave Consulting, the award-winning specialist and leading proponent of Data, Digital and Artificial Intelligence solution transformation for Financial Services, today announced its strategic partnership with Camunda, the leader in agentic process orchestration and ...

On 18th September, NextWave and Alteryx welcomed senior leaders from across financial services to The Ivy City Garden for a breakfast forum exploring how GenAI and agentic capabilities in Alteryx are reshaping the future of data and finance.

In the highly regulated and data-intensive world of financial services, the financial close process is critical yet notoriously complex. Whether monthly, quarterly, or annual, it ensures financial statements are complete, accurate and compliant. Beneath the surface, however, lies a tangled web of ...

The rise of low-code platforms has become one of the most transformative trends in financial services. These platforms, spanning data engineering, analytics, and workflow automation, are enabling organisations to move faster, reduce costs, and unlock innovation. By putting powerful capabilities ...

The financial services industry is in the midst of unprecedented change. Global annual technology spend across financial service institutions is estimated to be over $690 billion USD in 2025. With the AI revolution just starting and quantum computing rapidly coming up in the rearview mirror, the ...

On 11th June, SS&C hosted its annual Algorithmics Risk Conference, bringing together senior financial services leaders to explore how the industry is evolving in the face of AI, cyber threats, and regulatory change. Tony Clark, Founder & CEO of NextWave and host of The London Fintech ...

NextWave and Diffblue’s Testing Leadership Forum brought together senior figures from financial institutions and consultancies to discuss the shifting landscape of software testing. Hosted over breakfast at The Ivy, the session focused on AI-powered innovation, strategic transformation, and ...