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Most City Mega Mergers Test Tech More Than Balance Sheets
By Gus Sekhon, head of product, FINBOURNE Technology. The City loves nothing more than a takeover tale as old as time. A US$2.5tn US asset management behemoth snapping up one of London’s most historic investment houses for £10bn sounds like a story of global ambition and deep pockets. The Schroders brand stays, the headquarters remains…
Archive360 Girds Clients for Demise of the Single-Provider Data Pipeline
The future is fragmented. So says George Tziahanas, associated general counsel and vice president of compliance at data governance platform provider Archive360, who argues that the days of monolithic, front-to-back, one-size-fits-all data services providers may be numbered. Artificial intelligence has become both the hammer to break up single-provider data pipeline technology and the glue to…
Risks and Opportunities of GenAI, Data Products Under the Microscope: DMS London Preview
Artificial intelligence has made it possible to extract critical data from unstructured sources at speed and at scale. But the headlong rush to adopt the sorts of tools that can mine this rich vein of information is exposing organisations to new risks. Generative AI, whose models are commonly applied to trawling PDFs, emails, financial reports…
Pilot-to-Production Discussion to Open First AI in Data Management Summit NYC
The countdown has begun to the inaugural A-Team Group AI in Data Management Summit NYC. Leading figures from the worlds of data and finance will gather at the event to consider the most pressing matters facing them as their companies embed artificial intelligence into their operations. The Summit builds on the success of 15 years…
Record Debt Issuance Is Exposing The Bond Market’s Information Gap
By Swati Bhatia, head of fixed income, financial information at SIX. Sovereign bond issuance across the OECD’s member countries is predicted to have reach a record US$17 trillion at the end of last year, a scale of borrowing that would have seemed mind-boggling only a few years ago. On the corporate debt side, the total…
GoldenSource CEO Corrigan Lays Out Three-Year Plan of Change and Innovation
Eighteen months into his stewardship of GoldenSource, chief executive James Corrigan says the company is entering its next phase with a clear, practical three-year plan. Corrigan describes a disciplined approach: decide where the firm will compete, be explicit about what sets it apart, and align the organisation behind a short list of priorities. “If you don’t evolve your business model,…
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…
SimCorp Chosen as AllianceBernstein’s Investment Tech Provider
Investment management firm AllianceBernstein has selected SimCorp as its core investment technology partner in an agreement that will see the implementation of the SimCorp One platform to serve as front-to-back infrastructure for the firm. This transition aims to provide investment teams with centralised, real-time data and proprietary tools for trading. The firm’s platforms will be…