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SimCorp Unveils Factor Aggregation Tool for Quants
SimCorp has introduced the Axioma Factor Library Suite to aggregate fundamental, technical and macroeconomic factors into a single data resource for asset managers and hedge funds, among other users. The library includes exposures for 50,000 securities across 90 countries with historical data dating back to 1997. Users can access the data through the Axioma Risk…
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,…
Scaling the Unstructured: 10 Leaders in Intelligent Data Processing
Huge swaths of critical financial information, from private credit agreements and ESG disclosures to complex tax documentation, is locked in unstructured formats such as digital documents and PDFs. The manual bottleneck this creates for the middle and back office eats into valuable resources. A key means to achieving this, Intelligent Data Processing (IDP), represent a…
Introducing Market & Alt Data Insight: Advancing the Industrialisation of Data in Financial Markets
Financial markets are entering a new phase in the evolution of data. Data has always underpinned trading and investment workflows. What has changed is the scale, diversity and strategic management of that data across the enterprise. Traditional market data, alternative signals, derived datasets and AI-generated features now sit on the same operational continuum. The strategic…
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…
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…
Quest Unveils Data Platform to Automate Multiple Capabilities
Quest Software has launched the Trusted Data Management Platform featuring the Automated Data Product Factory, a software-as-a-service product that unifies data modelling, cataloguing, governance, quality and a data marketplace into a single interface. The system uses artificial intelligence and natural language prompts to automate the creation of production-ready data assets for corporate use. The platform…
CGS Focuses on Hard-Won Privates Expertise Amid Buzz of Startups
CUSIP Global Services is leveraging its history of servicing syndicated loans, asset-backed securities, options, derivatives and other complex asset classes as it expands into the growing private credit and alternatives space. The Norwalk, Connecticut-headquartered provider of issuer and asset identifiers is working closely with financial digital platform FactSet, the Loan Syndication and Trading Association (LSTA)…
Softwire QnA: Turning Great Ideas into Data Solutions for Institutions
UK-based Softwire offers its financial institution clients expertise in leveraging data to achieve their operational objectives. Data Management Insight spoke to Sean Judge, Softwire Client Director FS&I to find out more about the company. Data Management Insight: Hello Sean. Can you tell us when and how was Softwire created and how does it serve financial institutions? Sean Judge: Softwire…
Defensibility: The New Watchword for Data Management
George Tziahanas, VP of Compliance at Archive360. Regulated enterprises are discovering that the hardest part of scaling new technology such as AI isn’t adoption; it’s proving those technologies are properly controlled. For financial institutions in particular – including banks, asset managers, insurers, and capital markets firms – this challenge is intensified by long-standing regulatory expectations…