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SimCorp Axioma Risk Software Adopted by Canada’s Fiera Capital
Asset manager Fiera Capital has selected SimCorp’s Axioma Risk software for risk analytics and portfolio construction. The integration provides the Canada-based firm with risk management systems and factor models for investment strategies. Axioma Portfolio Optimizer assists investment teams to construct portfolios and align decisions with client objectives. “With Axioma, Fiera Capital is strengthening how risk…
BBH Subsidiary Braid Seeks to Fill Data Transformation Hole for Financial Institutions
As data is distributed throughout an enterprise, it has to be integrated with a variety of technologies in order to bring efficiencies to different workflows. This can create a lot of manual overhead, particularly in organisations with fragmented legacy tech systems. While bolt-on point solutions exist, they tend to be custom-built for particular use cases…
InterSystems-Aegis Trace Collaboration Seeks to Give Clients AI Adoption Confidence
Data integrator InterSystems has engaged Aegis Trace to provide the tools for clients to manage their data in a way that ensures trust in their artificial intelligence-led decision making. MSDK Labs-developed Aegis Trace brings it traceability capabilities to InterSystems IRIS data platform, enabling financial institutions and other regulated industries to evidence and audit the responses…
Data and Governance Take Centre Stage in AI Adoption
Financial institutions are making significant progress in deploying agentic AI, but differences in data infrastructure, governance and commercial priorities are creating a widening gap between those scaling the technology and those still experimenting, according to new research from A-Team Group. The study, commissioned by LSEG Data & Analytics and based on responses from 200 senior…
Recorded Webinar: Generative and Agentic AI in Financial Markets: What the Data Really Shows
Artificial intelligence is reshaping financial markets – but the reality on the ground is more nuanced, more uneven, and more instructive than the headlines suggest. A new A-Team Insight research programme, drawing on responses from senior AI decision-makers at buy-side and sell-side institutions across the USA, UK and Canada, reveals a market in transition: from…
A-Team Group Announces AI in Capital Markets Awards 2026 Winners
As artificial intelligence dominates conversations among the decisions makers of the world’s financial institutions, A-Team Group has recognised the vendors that are enabling those firms to transform their operations with the most cutting edge of technologies. In its second annual AI in Capital Markets Awards, the group celebrates the technology suppliers in this fast-growing sector…
Modern Data Management Comes to Private Markets Rescue: Webinar Review
Private assets are firmly established as a major focus of financial institutions’ investment strategies, but many still struggle to apply the same technological rigour to their alternative portfolios as they do their allocations to public assets. This is through no fault of their own, and is almost entirely the result of the shortage of quality…
12 Sell-Side Data Management Platforms That are Transforming Capital Markets
Broker-dealers, investment banks and market makers are having to navigate mounting pressure from multi-asset fragmentation, compressed margins and increasingly stringent regulatory demands such as MiFID II and T+1 settlement cycles. Rather than executing sweeping, high-risk lift-and-shift overhauls, financial institutions are focusing on practical evolution: modernising data supply chains, unifying siloed front-to-back systems and replacing brittle…
Governing Unstructured Data in the Age of AI
By John Joseph, Senior Director, North America Revenue, Xceptor. The financial services industry is moving beyond AI that simply generates information towards deploying agents that make decisions in live operational environments. While this can deliver significant gains in efficiency, streamline regulatory compliance, and reduce the risk of human error, it has also increased scrutiny of…
Recorded Webinar: Taming the Private Markets Data Beast: Solving for Valuation, Integration, and Reporting in Alternative Investments
Available On-Demand Institutional activity in private markets has surged as organisations’ traditional investment theses have been upended by global economic volatility, geopolitical instability and fee compression. In their search for better risk-adjusted returns, they have found a rich seam of alpha from private equity and credit, real assets, venture and hedge funds, as well as…