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AI adoption in Financial Services is entering a new phase, and the cost of running it is coming under closer scrutiny.

Lessons from rebuilding the FNOL process on an open-weight, locally hosted model instead of commercial LLM APIs — and why smaller was the right call. Ask most technology leaders how they arrived at their AI model of choice, and the answer is almost always about capability. Which provider reasons ...

How combining Alteryx One and Databricks can help organisations scale self-service analytics while maintaining governance, data quality and enterprise performance.

How combining deterministic workflows with Claude creates faster, cheaper, and more trustworthy enterprise intelligence.

How one bank-grade reconciliation workflow became conversational — without exposing raw data, retaining users or writing a line of new code. Every trading desk I have worked with lives with two versions of the truth. The front office books the trade; the back office settles it, and somewhere ...

How the Alteryx One Insights MCP Server helps organisations accelerate enterprise AI while maintaining governance, security and compliance Every financial institution wants to put AI in the hands of its analysts. Far fewer have solved one critical question: how do you allow AI to access business ...

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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.