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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…
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…
Hexaware QnA: Combining Human Skills and AI to Solve Data Challenges
Hexaware is a global digital and technology services company, with UK offices in London and Birmingham. It has been solving data challenges for financial institutions and other regulated industries for more than 30 years. Data Management Insight spoke to Parameshwaran (Param) Iyer, regional head – UK & Ireland, Hexaware Technologies, about the pain points Hexaware…
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…