Legacy platforms, while precise and compliant, have become rigid fortresses that protect data rather than enable insights.
To remain competitive, firms must embrace intelligent architectures that unify data, support reasoning capabilities, and enable proactive decision-making. This evolution sets the stage for the next phase: leveraging interoperability as the defining advantage in an increasingly interconnected financial ecosystem.
In the second article in our three-part series, we reveal how and why institutions must evolve from traditional environments built to record transactions toward modern, composable ecosystems engineered for intelligence, connectivity, and velocity.
Our second article presents:
- From Silos to Cross-System Intelligence
- Designing for Connectivity and Speed
- Pathways to Composability: From Fragmentation to Intelligence
- Competitive Implications
- Industry Inflection Point and Execution Gap
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Read the first article in this series: REWIRING FINANCE FOR 2026 INTELLIGENCE CONNECTIVITY AND VELOCITY
Alvarez & Marsal advises NIBC on an LP-led secondary transaction
January 23, 2026
A&M advised NIBC on a successful LP-led secondary transaction involving the sale of a portfolio of private equity fund interests to De Wereld van Vermaat, through its fund investment arm, M Eight.
CASE STUDY: DEUTSCHE PFANDBRIEFBANK AG —INAUGURAL SRT
January 15, 2026
A&M's PAG team acted as lead financial advisor to Deutsche Pfandbriefbank AG (pbb) on its first synthetic Significant Risk Transfer (SRT) securitisation, referencing a $2 billion loan portfolio secured by Commercial Real Estate (CRE) properties in the US.
Rewiring Finance for 2026: Intelligence, Connectivity, and Velocity
January 13, 2026
The financial industry is undergoing a profound transformation, driven by the need to evolve from static systems of record to dynamic systems of intelligence, interoperability, and real-time settlement. Read our first article in our three part series.
CASE STUDY: ILTE – SECURITISATION OF MULTI-APARTMENT BUILDING RENOVATION LOANS ORIGINATED BY THE GOVERNMENT OF LITHUANIA
January 8, 2026
A&M has acted as Arranger of the first publicly rated securitisation in Lithuania and the Baltic States. Vytis Reno Loans 2025-1 DAC Class A Debt achieved a AAA rating by Fitch and Scope, raising EUR 112 million, the first transaction of this asset class in Europe and the first AAA rating on Nasdaq Baltic.
