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FactSet Expands GenAI Offerings with Portfolio Commentary
FactSet, provider of a financial digital platform and enterprise solutions, has expanded its GenAI offerings with Portfolio Commentary. The solution complements the company’s performance attribution capabilities with detailed and source-linked commentary allowing buy-side and wealth managers to understand key drivers of portfolio performance more holistically. Powered by large language models (LLMs), Portfolio Commentary also reduces…
Snowflake Releases Arctic Open-Source LLM for Complex Enterprise Workloads
Snowflake has released Arctic, an open-source large language model (LLM) designed to deliver top-tier intelligence and efficiency at scale, and optimised for complex enterprise workloads. The company’s debut of its own open-source LLM takes it into competition with the likes of OpenAI’s GPT-4, Google’s Gemini, Meta Platforms’ Llama 2 and Mistral AI’s Mixtral. Snowflake Arctic…
A-Team Group Names Winners of Innovation Awards 2024
A-Team Group has named the winners of its prestigious Innovation Awards 2024. The awards celebrate innovative projects and teams across vendor and practitioner communities that make use of new and emerging technologies to deliver high-value solutions for financial institutions in capital markets with a focus on data management, trading technology, RegTech or ESG. This year’s…
Investment Manager River Global Implements Bloomberg Solutions for New Tech Stack
A win for Bloomberg with UK-based investment manager River Global implementing a suite of the company’s solutions as its new tech-stack to support front-to-back office investment workflows. Solutions adopted by the investment manager include Bloomberg AIM for order and investment management and BQuant Enterprise for quantitative analysis. “By adopting Bloomberg’s integrated offerings, we have seamless…
SimCorp Integrates Software and Services to Deliver SimCorp One
SimCorp, a subsidiary of Deutsche Börse Group, has introduced an integrated platform for the global buy-side, SimCorp One. The platform includes Dimension, Simcorp’s automated investment management software, and Axioma factor risk models, portfolio construction tools, and multi-asset class enterprise risk solutions acquired in a merger late last year. Other elements comprise client communications, the company’s…
Snowflake Expands Toronto Office to Support Growth in Canadian Market
Snowflake has expanded and relocated its Toronto office to support strategic growth in the Canadian market and growing headcount. Located in the city’s business and technology core, the new Toronto office will serve as the company’s Canadian headquarters. Snowflake first opened in Canada in 2022, making Toronto home to one of the company’s five global…
Snowflake Report Says Asset Servicers Are Using Cloud as Agent of Change
Institutional client services (ICS) providers are harnessing cloud-based technologies to develop new capabilities, including artificial intelligence (AI), as they transform their business models to suit a fast-changing global financial system. In a bid to differentiate themselves they are seizing opportunities offered by cloud processing to “take more control over the assets they traditionally entrust to…
GoldenSource Offers SaaS EDM Solutions on AWS Marketplace
Enterprise data management (EDM) technology provider GoldenSource has made a range of EDM solutions available on AWS Marketplace. Financial services companies including hedge funds, asset managers, asset servicers, custodians, banks and brokers can access third-party software, data, and other services on the cloud platform via the New York- and London-based company’s new AWS Marketplace presence….
The Potential and Pitfalls of Large Language Models
By Tony Seale, Knowledge Graph Engineer at Tier 1 Bank. Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT possess enormous power, stemming from their capability to ingest and compress vast amounts of general information gathered from the web. However, this capability is general rather than tailored to your specific business needs. To effectively utilise these models in…
Institutions Look to Cloud to Meet New Asset Management Data Challenges: Arcesium
Institutional asset managers are looking to cloud solutions as they seek to find economies and streamline their asset management processes. Taking advantage of new digital technology that can help them meet changing client demands in an evolving financial landscape, these firms have been prompted to look to the cloud as creaking legacy infrastructure limits their…