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Arcesium Expands Asia Presence with Hong Kong Office Opening
Arcesium has opened a new office in Hong Kong as the investment lifecycle and data management technology provider seeks to expand into the Asia Pacific market. This expansion establishes a physical presence in the region to provide data infrastructure and operational technology to local financial institutions.The office supports a client base of asset managers, hedge…
Bigger is Better, Says Gresham CEO After Acquisition of S&P Global’s EDM Business
Gresham has finalised its acquisition of S&P Global’s EDM business as the data automation company expands to meet the growing and increasingly complex data needs of modern financial institutions. EDM, which supports more than US$12 trillion in assets, will sit alongside Gresham’s existing enterprise data management business, which was created with its merger with Alveo…
Free from Fear and Lock-In – The Efficiency Jackpot Back-Offices in PE can Deliver
By Gareth Hewitt, Co-founder and CEO, LemonEdge. Private equity firms and fund administrators face heavier workloads and closer scrutiny than ever before, yet many back offices still run on systems built for a past era, when there was less expectation that services needed to be delivered quite as regularly. Teams recognise that sticking with these…
The Data Year Ahead: AI Comes of Age, Private Markets Become Less Opaque
2026 is set to be the year in which the evolutionary changes hinted in the past 12 months become established within the data landscape, according to expert predictions. Artificial intelligence will mature into the game-changing innovation it has promised for years and private markets, whose growth in importance in the past few years has been…
Why Outsourcing is Shifting from Cost Centre to Being a Catalyst for Transformation
By Sarva Srinivasan, Managing Director, NeoXam Americas. For decades, outsourcing across all industries has been synonymous with trimming the back office, streamlining headcount, and delegating so called non-core processes to third parties. But in the world of finance, the ground is well and truly shifting. As the asset management and servicing industries face mounting multi-asset…
Twelve Leading Data Lineage Solutions for Capital Markets
The ability to trace the journey of data from its origin to its final report is no longer a luxury but a regulatory and operational necessity. As firms grapple with the intensifying requirements of regulations such as BCBS 239, GDPR and the shifting landscape of MiFID II, the “black box” approach to data management has…
The Year in Data: Agentic AI Points to a Future of Efficiency
Touted as the next frontier of artificial intelligence, agentic AI hogged the data management headlines in 2025. Seemingly ushering the realisation of the no-more-drudge-work predictions that heralded the arrival of general AI years back, agentic AI has certainly become the target of institutional investment and developer innovation in the past 12 months. According to a…
The Year in Data: 2025’s Biggest Trends and Developments
The past 12 months saw breakneck developments in how firms applied artificial intelligence. AI began to change from a mere tool to an integral part of capital markets operations. The year also saw data services providers launch multiple products for the growing private markets investment sector. Data Management Insight spoke to leaders in our industry…
Arcesium Warns of Data Crunch as US Pension Funds Boost Private Market Bets
Blackstone’s launch of a business unit dedicated to the creation of products that give US pension funds access to private markets has raised the data challenge for many established investment managers. Blackstone is seeking to win pension trustees over to an investment space they had traditionally been wary of or have been restricted from entering…
Financial Markets Need Explainable Agents, Not Black Boxes
By Cédric Cajet, Product Director, NeoXam. Artificial intelligence (AI) is fast becoming the newest arms race in financial markets. From portfolio construction to risk modelling and client reporting, firms are racing to embed machine learning and generative AI into their operations. Whether it’s faster insights to make better investment decisions or the ability to reduce…