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AI May Well be a Big Accelerator, But Let’s Not Forget the Destination
By Chris Livesey, chief executive of AutoRek. Across the financial services software landscape, vendors and end-user customers are chasing a new goal, in how fast they can AI-ify or agentify everything that moves to claim unique differentiation and plant a flag for their brand as a market leader. We’ve seen this cycle many times before, for example with internet, cloud…
Bloomberg Acquisition of Canoe Marks ‘Major’ Step in Private Markets for Data Behemoth
Bloomberg is to acquire private market data automation specialist Canoe Intelligence as the financial data behemoth seeks to expand its offerings in the booming market for alternatives data. In what the company says is one of the most significant deals in its history, Bloomberg has characterised the acquisition as the “latest step” in a multi-year…
Hexaware Clients Given Access to Factory Software Development Capabilities
Hexaware Technologies has partnered with Factory to deliver agent-native software development to enterprise clients across major sectors, including banking and financial services. The agreement integrates Factory’s Droid platform into Hexaware Technologies’ global delivery system. Hexaware Technologies previously deployed the Droid platform internally within its own engineering ecosystem. “We’re seeing 5x to 10x gains in production-ready…
New Funding as Feathery Expands Wealth and Insurance Data Management Platform
Feathery has secured US$30 million in funding to expand its artificial intelligence-powered data automation software for the insurance and wealth management industries. Feathery’s platform provides data management capabilities that enable clients to overcome the restrictions presented by fragmented tech stacks, which are common within the sectors. Erie Insurance Strategic Ventures provided capital alongside Index Ventures,…
There Is A Blind Spot In The Modern Data Stack That Will Kill The Buy-Side’s AI Ambitions
By Mihir Shah, adviser to FINBOURNE Technology. For a long time now, financial institutions have poured billions into building what has become known as the modern data stack. Data lakes, warehouses, ingestion pipelines and cloud platforms have all become the dominant blueprint for becoming a data-driven organisation. Yet the industry’s enthusiasm rests on a flawed…
GoldenSource Scout Launched to ‘Close Data Trust Gap’ Using AI
Data management provider GoldenSource has entered the next phase of its evolution with the launch of GoldenSource Scout, an AI platform for capital markets built on the firm’s Trusted Contextual Data Layer, which grounds enterprise AI in governed, canonical data. The launch marks a significant shift towards AI within the firm’s data management ecosystem. Swati…
Recorded Webinar: The Data Office at a Crossroads — AI Governance, Organisational Design, and the Evolving Mandate of the CDO
Who owns AI governance in a capital markets firm – and is the Data Office structured to bear that weight? These questions sit at the heart of A-Team Research’s latest findings, presented here for the first time: the combined results of two landmark surveys examining the role of the Data Office in AI governance and…
Trading Up: Helping Our Youngsters Get What We Do
By Andrew Delaney, President, A-Team Group. We hear it time and time again – at our conferences, on our roundtables and from our advisory boards: our beloved financial data and technology industry is suffering from an acute skills shortage. Flip to the other side of the coin, and employers and parents alike fret about the…
From noise to knowledge: why financial AI needs trusted news
Decisions in financial markets are increasingly shaped by machines. Yet the information feeding those decisions is arriving in unprecedented volume, velocity and variety. As a result, the true differentiator is no longer access to more content, but access to news that is trusted, relevant and correct to the moment in time. With AI rapidly becoming…
Broker Licensing Agreements Under Scrutiny as AI Reshapes Buy-Side Data and Research Market
Traditional data and research purchase arrangements may be holding back the buy-side from using artificial intelligence to take full advantage of new sources of market and other information. Restrictions associated with broker and data licensing agreements were cited as the biggest barrier to adoption of direct data and research feeds by two-thirds of global asset…