FactSet has partnered with alternative data platform Carbon Arc to integrate more than 500 data assets from over 60 providers into its Workstation and AI ecosystem, expanding the range of information available to investment professionals through existing research and analytical workflows. Announced on 10 November, the agreement covers datasets spanning credit card transactions, retail foot…

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Data management and reconciliation provider NeoXam has launched a dedicated team in the UK, bringing sales and servicing closer to UK clients to win more local business and strengthen its global footprint. The French company, who’s software and technology helps companies oversee and manage more than 25 trillion euros of assets, has begun with a…

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The slow rollout of multi-agent artificial intelligence systems and growing concern over the risks of poorly governed AI models suggest current iterations of the technology may be testing the limits of its effectiveness – even as financial institutions press on with deployments. A survey by French IT consultancy Capgemini found that the emerging use of…

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By Gus Sekhon, VP Strategy, FINBOURNE Technology. For all the billions spent modernising investment technology, one question continues to linger for asset managers around what exactly do they own and where the risks lie? While it may sound straightforward, the reality is that across the investment industry right now, producing a complete picture of portfolio…

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ESG ratings still play an important part in investors’ due diligence processes, but they are no longer among the leading sources of information guiding their decisions, a recent survey has concluded. Increased scrutiny of ratings agencies by regulators and government bodies, as well as improved means of gathering ESG data, mainly through the use of…

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French startup 73 Strings realised a couple of years ago that one of the by-products of its valuation platform was a trove of structured, standardised and consistently labelled data drawn from private markets. This, reasoned Chief Executive and Co-Founder Yann Magnan, was financial gold in a part of the financial sector that has traditionally been…

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Data exists for a purpose – to be used – and in modern capital markets, there is an increasing array of use cases to which information can be deployed. Chief among those is analytics, divining meaning and insight from the vast volumes of data that is available internally and from third parties. Sourcing the right…

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The deployment of artificial intelligence agents to risk management processes without adequate attention paid to data quality will expose capital markets participants to undue vulnerabilities. The warning from Clearwater Analytics came after a survey by the company found almost all institutional investors questioned said that data quality was the biggest barrier to trusting AI outputs….

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The traditional technology divide between an organisation’s business leaders and its engineers has been flipped in the artificial intelligence age, with end users and data consumers calling the shots in proposed pilots and making tougher demands of their software developers and data managers. The role reversal is such that AI has become a business model…

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Nasdaq’s acquisition of Dasseti, a due diligence and monitoring platform, extends the exchange and data company’s interests in private markets and highlights the growing importance of the sector to capital markets investors. The deal, which was completed in September, will see the artificial intelligence-powered tools of Dasseti integrated into Nasdaq’s eVestment business, and rolled out across…

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