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
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Asia Insurance M&A 2026: Beyond the core – winning in new markets
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Read our Insurance extract from our "Keeping up with Momentum - FSIG Financial Services M&A in 2026" Report. Discover why combatting structural pressures and catering to Asia’s wealthy class requires insurers to go beyond existing segments and strengthen both distribution and new product capabilities.
Alvarez & Marsal advises NIBC on an LP-led secondary transaction
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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
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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.
