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Alteryx Integrates With BigQuery as it Widens Google Cloud Tie-Up
Alteryx has expanded a partnership with Google Cloud to integrate its services with the BigQuery data platform. The collaboration introduces Live Query for BigQuery, a feature that allows users to build and execute analytics workflows directly within the data warehouse without moving information. This in-place approach aims to bridge the gap between where data resides…
GenAI Yet to Dominate Quant Teams, Bloomberg Survey Finds
Generative artificial intelligence is yet to take a firm hold within investment research workflows, with more than half of quant-team professionals interviewed in a Bloomberg survey saying that had yet to implement the technology. The study of 150 quant leaders found that machine learning is well established but 54 per cent hadn’t yet adopted GenAI….
Snowflake Retools Cortex to Offer FSI Tailored AI Capabilities
Snowflake’s Cortex AI features has been enriched to provide financial services companies with agentic artificial intelligence capabilities honed to their specific needs, the first of a planned suite of editions focused on individual industries. Cortex AI for Financial Services will feature all the functionality of the platform’s Cortex features but will offer clients large language models that…
Rimes Adds Analytics, Order Book Functionality with Partnerships
Rimes has forged partnerships with PANTA, BMLL and Ortec Finance, integrating specialised analytics and historical order book data into the enterprise data management provider’s platform. The collaboration aims to provide clients with index blending capabilities, market-microstructure analysis and performance attribution. Vijay Mayadas said the company is providing deeper analytics and interoperable data to help clients…
Data Automator Xceptor Offers Platform Ready-Made for AI
Dan Reid is not surprised that Xceptor, the data automation giant he formed two decades ago, finds itself at the vanguard of a change in the way financial institutions regard and use documents. The rapid and accurate parsing of information from paper- and PDF-based reports has been made possible thanks to recent developments in artificial intelligence. The volume…
Why AI is Making Data Ownership a Business Imperative
By Edgar Randall, UK&I Managing Director, Dun & Bradstreet. As AI becomes the engine of modern business, the question of verifiable data ownership is no longer theoretical, it’s central to how organisations build trust in AI-driven decisions. The rise of AI means models depend entirely on the quality and integrity of the data they consume….
Diginex Labour Rights Expert Acquisition Highlights ESG Data Shift to Risk
Sustainability data and RegTech provider Diginex’s recent acquisition of The Remedy Project labour and human rights advisory illustrates how ESG is transforming from an investment strategy to a risk mitigation objective among financial companies. The London-based company, which last year purchased sustainability data and analytics provider Matter DK, anticipates that the The Remedy Project’s expertise…
SimCorp Offers Iteration of Axioma Analytics Suite for Frequent Rebalancing
SimCorp has created its Axioma Worldwide Equity Factor Risk Model: Trading Horizon, which enables forecasts risk over a twenty-day period and provides daily updates on factor exposures for strategies requiring frequent rebalancing. The new iteration of the finance technology giant’s analytics suite incorporates style factors such as short interest and opinion divergence to track liquidity…
Bigger is Better, Says Gresham CEO After Acquisition of S&P Global’s EDM Business
Gresham has finalised its acquisition of S&P Global’s EDM business as the data automation company expands to meet the growing and increasingly complex data needs of modern financial institutions. EDM, which supports more than US$12 trillion in assets, will sit alongside Gresham’s existing enterprise data management business, which was created with its merger with Alveo…
The Data Year Ahead: AI Comes of Age, Private Markets Become Less Opaque
2026 is set to be the year in which the evolutionary changes hinted in the past 12 months become established within the data landscape, according to expert predictions. Artificial intelligence will mature into the game-changing innovation it has promised for years and private markets, whose growth in importance in the past few years has been…