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The Quest for Better Data Management Through Trusted Data Products
Quest Software has built its reputation on protecting digital identities, assisting companies’ data migrations within the Microsoft ecosystem. But the Austin, Texas-based firm also has a data management business that has been addressing both the database and metadata management ecosystems. As artificial intelligence begins to take a dominant role in data management and among financial…
Beyond the Pilot: Building Infrastructure for the Agentic Era
By David Sewell, Chief Technology Officer, Synechron. The fraud transaction takes milliseconds to clear. In that window, an agentic system has already queried three databases, cross-referenced two watchlists, and pinged the identity verification layer. It works – in the demo. Then the auditor asks where the decision log is, and nobody can find it, because…
NeoXam Sets Sights on Narrowing Private Data Gap Between GPs and LPs
As demand for private markets data accelerates, asset allocators are finding themselves having to play digital catch up with their investor counterparts. General partners (GPs), who manage private funds and allocate capital invested by limited partners (LPs) have found themselves technologically behind the curve as institutional investors plough into the once-niche markets. But because LPs are…
FactSet Incorporates Kepler Cheuvreux AMR
FactSet has announced a partnership to integrate Kepler Cheuvreux’s aftermarket research (AMR) into its systems, incorporating equity research covering 1,000 stocks across 34 sectors into the FactSet interface. The integration includes artificial intelligence tools to summarise and contextualise European equity data for users, the financial digital platform provider said. Kendra Brown, Senior Vice President at…
As Finance Sector Workers Embrace AI, Study Warns ‘Be Careful What You Wish For’
The potential real-world impacts of hastily deployed artificial intelligence rollouts have been highlighted in new reports that underscore the need for better-quality data and greater literacy in the technology. Financial firms that don’t invest in creating greater workforce awareness of how AI tools can be used are at risk not only of failing to optimise…
Arcesium Aquata Update Deploys AI to Give ‘Purpose’ to Extracted Data
Giving structure to unstructured data has become indispensable to private market investors, who must deal with what must feel, to the much of rest of the digitised financial world, like relics from antiquity – PDFs, spreadsheets, emails and even paper documents. But the question that hangs over many solutions is what next? What happens to that data…
Private Markets Growth Exposes Asset Servicing’s Infrastructure Gap
By Toby Glaysher, Chairman, FINBOURNE. Asset servicers face a paradox: winning business in the industry’s fastest-growing segment whilst discovering that growth erodes rather than enhances profitability. Private markets represent both strategic opportunity and operational crisis, exposing fundamental limitations in infrastructure built for a different era. When growth creates problems The expansion into private credit, infrastructure…
Bloomberg Compresses Delivery Times for Alternative Data
Bloomberg has launched Data Entitlements within the alternatives-focused ALTD function on its Terminal, integrating analytics from providers such as Placer.ai and Similarweb into the existing investment research platform. The service reduces the delivery lag of key performance indicator estimates to between three and five days, Bloomberg said. Richard Lai, global head of alternative data at…
Canoe Joins Confluence to Enhance Portfolio Management Data Offering
Alternative investment data specialist Canoe Intelligence has formed a partnership that integrates its Canoe Connect system with with Confluence Technologies’ Portfolio Analytics and Reporting Information System to automate data workflows for asset allocators. The agreement combines artificial intelligence-driven document collection with advanced analytics to streamline reporting for private-market portfolios, enabling institutional investors to monitor asset…
Agentic AI Deployment Presents Potentially Dangerous Data ‘Trust Paradox’
Artificial intelligence deployment in capital markets’ data processes may be approaching an inflection point that, if not managed properly, could introduce dangerous risks to institutions’ operations. The growing deployment of anonymous agents has the potential to hardwire data errors into workflows, magnifying data weaknesses as the automating technology scales processes, according Informatica from Salesforce. The…