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Unleashing the Power of AI for Financial Institutions with Snowflake and Amazon Web Services
Financial institutions are among the largest users of AI, deploying it for a range of use cases that, while already wide, will broaden in the future. A report by the International Monetary Fund has forecast that institutional spending on AI will surge 29% to US$97 billion by 2027. The technology has become crucial to automation…
Generali-Natixis Tie-up Highlights Data and Operational Complexities of Asset Management M&A
By Jeremy Katzeff, head of buy-side solutions at GoldenSource. After much speculation, it’s now confirmed. The asset management industry welcomes another mega fund to its ranks after the tie-up between the asset management businesses of Natixis and Generali Group. The reasons behind the merger are the same as they have been for the last few…
ICE to Scrape Reddit Communities for Market-Useful Insights
US financial data and technology provider Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) is to harvest insights and content from millions of posts made daily to the Reddit social media platform, which it will package into market-useful data products. ICE said it would access Reddit’s Data API to “research, create and distribute new data and analytics products for the…
Accelex Says its AI Agent Can Tame The ‘Nastiest’ Corner of Data Management
Unstructured data is the bugbear of private market data managers, but one of the latest entrant to the space claims to have a solution that can tame the “nastiest” part of data retrieval – private market fund quarterly reports. Accelex is a London-based artificial intelligence (AI) focussed FinTech that has launched a platform that can prise market-relevant…
Databricks and Frisco Tools Seek to Simplify Workflows
A deal between Databricks and Frisco Analytics is intended to simplify data workflows and unify siloes across enterprises. The tie-up will make Frisco’s data management tool available to clients on Databricks’ Data Intelligence Platform. Clients will have access to tools to integrate data management and governance, improve data quality and consistency and accelerate analytics and…
Strong Governance, Privacy Policies Can Negate AI Risks, Informatica Says
Debate about the limitations of artificial intelligence (AI) in data management was stoked further this week when a leading vendor warned that applications built on nascent large language model (LLM) technology could pose an “existential threat” to companies if not deployed thoughtfully. Jason du Preez, vice president of privacy and security at cloud data management…
Snowflake Bets it can Bring the Promise of AI to Wary Organisations
Snowflake has rooted its offerings more deeply in artificial intelligence, betting that its data cloud platform can deliver the promise of the technology at a time when many organisations are reappraising their approach to AI implementation. Among a flurry of new service announcements made at the end of last year, Snowflake unveiled plans to launch…
The Data Year Ahead: More Data Formats and Use Cases
In the second part of our preview of the next 12 months in data management, we take in the views of experts who offered Data Management Insight their thoughts on a range of developments, including the increased use of unstructured data, the wider application of data sets and distribution challenges. 1 Data Governance, Quality and Technologies Ian…
Snowflake Opens Regional Headquarters in Saudi Arabia
Data cloud giant Snowflake has opened a Middle East regional headquarters in the Saudi Arabian capital Riyadh. The company said it would serve the wider Middle East from the new office, taking advantage of the kingdom’s Vision 2030 programme of modernising its tech base.
SmartStream Chief Jaffer Sees Rapid Change in Year at Helm
Just over a year into his tenure as chief executive of financial data automation provider SmartStream, Akber Jaffer finds himself surveying a data industry that’s changed enormously over his short time at the UK-based company. Chat GPT was a year old when he took on his new role and the artificial intelligence (AI) technology’s revolutionary…