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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…
Bridgewise Raises $21M to Expand AI Financial Intelligence Platform for Global Securities
Bridgewise, the AI-powered investment analysis platform, has successfully completed a $21 million funding round, increasing its total capital raised to $35 million. The investment was spearheaded by SIX Group and included contributions from Group11 and L4 Venture Builder, along with other global financial institutions. The company provides advanced AI-driven solutions that serve a diverse client…
Clearwater Analytics to Acquire Risk and Performance Analytics Solutions from Wilshire
Clearwater Analytics, a provider of software-as-a-service (SaaS) based investment management, accounting, reporting, and analytics solutions, has entered a definitive agreement to acquire risk and performance analytics solutions from Wilshire Advisors, a financial services firm. Clearwater will acquire Wilshire AxiomSM, Wilshire AtlasSM, Wilshire Abacus and Wilshire iQComposite, which cover fixed income analytics, equity analytics and performance…
Confluence Adds MSCI ESG Research Data into Style Analytics
Confluence Technologies, a solutions provider to the investment management industry, has integrated MSCI ESG Research data into its factor investing analytics solution, Style Analytics. The data will help asset managers and fund selectors by offering in-depth analysis, comparison, and enhancement of portfolios. Damian Handzy, managing director, analytics, at Confluence, comments: “Style Analytics’ integration of MSCI’s…
Snowflake Reviews the Rise of the Chatbot
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly being used to create chatbots with 46% of apps falling into this category in May 2023, and the percentage continuing to rise. This shows a shift from LLM applications with text-based input, 82% in 2023 and 54% in 2024, to those with iterative text input and offering the ability…
Rimes Releases AI-Powered Data Lakehouse Copilot for Natural Language Insights
Rimes has released a Data Lakehouse AI Copilot that provides natural language insights and enables users to accelerate performance by providing investment managers with faster, streamlined access to specific data sets they need. The solution eliminates the need to write code as its natural language answers enable users to quickly transfer datasets and apply them…
FactSet Introduces Interactive GenAI Solution Transcript Assistant
FactSet has released its first interactive GenAI solution available in the FactSet Workstation. Called Transcript Assistant, the solution is a conversational chatbot designed to accelerate in-depth research and analysis of earnings call transcripts, and help users search, analyse, and extract valuable, actionable insights from all transcripts in FactSet with a view to improving the investment…
Snowflake Partnership Offers Access to Mistral AI Large Language Models
Snowflake has made a global partnership with Mistral AI, a provider of AI Large Language Model (LLM) solutions. The multi-year partnership, which includes a parallel investment in Mistral’s Series A from Snowflake Ventures, will give Snowflake customers access to Mistral AI’s newest and most powerful LLM, Mistral Large, which includes reasoning capacities, is proficient in…
Informatica Adds AI Powered Data Access and Governance to IDMC Data Management Platform
Informatica has released Cloud Data Access Management (CDAM), a solution based on the company’s 2023 acquisition of Privitar, a provider of data access management products. The AI-powered solution is integrated with Informatica’s Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) and uses the platform’s common metadata foundation to support data access governance. At the heart of CDAM is…