FactSet has struck a strategic partnership with Agência Estado, a real-time news and market data vendor in Brazil. The partnership integrates Agência Estado’s Portuguese-language newswire into FactSet’s workstation to create the Broadcast+ FactSet Workstation, a co-branded solution combining local Brazilian news and content from Agência Estado with FactSet’s data, analytics, and technology services.
For many quantitative trading firms and asset managers, building a self-provisioned historical market data environment remains one of the most time-consuming and resource-intensive steps in establishing a new research capability. Sourcing data, normalising symbologies, handling corporate actions and maintaining infrastructure can take months and absorb significant budget before a single model is tested. At the...
Opetek has launched ARIUS, a quantitative reasoning platform for institutional trading desks, which is being piloted by traders and quants at a tier-one global investment bank across live FX options workflows in New York, London and Singapore. A second tier-one institution has been approved and onboarded, with go-live expected in the coming weeks. Designed for...
Now in its 3rd year, the AI in Capital Markets Summit returns with a focus on the practicalities of onboarding AI enterprise wide for business value creation. Whilst AI offers huge potential to revolutionise capital markets operations many are struggling to move beyond pilot phase to generate substantial value from AI.
AI adoption in capital markets has moved into a more disciplined phase. The priority is now controlled deployment: where AI can be used safely, where it can deliver measurable value, and how outputs can be governed, monitored and evidenced. The 2026 edition of the AI in Capital Markets Handbook examines how AI is being applied...