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Critical but Challenging – Managing Unstructured Data: A-Team Webinar Preview
Unstructured data accounts for an estimated 80 per cent of companies’ data estate and the volume of that information is forecast to grow by a third each year. Consequently, management of the class of data that is being culled from sources as diverse as financial reports and social media posts has become a pressing challenge….
SimCorp Axioma Users Have Access to Yield Book Fixed Income Data
Yield Book’s securitised debt analytics have been incorporated into SimCorp’s Axioma risk management system. The partnership builds on the Danish fixed-income data integration provider’s collaboration with Yield Book’s parent LSEG Analytics. Users of SaaS-based Axioma will now have access to in-depth risk data, said Allen Zimmerman, Managing Director, Head of Americas at SimCorp. “This partnership…
Reporting Seen Among Use Cases Benefiting from Cloud-based Data Management for AI
Artificial intelligence is being adopted by financial regulators at pace, putting pressure on the financial institutions that the overseers serve to double down on their reporting capabilities. It’s no surprise to find that the same AI that’s helping regulators can aid organisations in getting those reporting procedures in place. To do so, however, they need…
Data’s Role in AI Transition and Value Creation: Data Management Summit London Preview
The rapid adoption of artificial intelligence by financial institutions has required a heavy data management uplift as organisations have upgraded their systems to incorporate the new technology. It has also provided greater opportunity to squeeze even more value from data by enabling its efficient deployment across enterprises. Just how companies manage data for AI to…
Quantexa Raises Further $175m for AI-led Decision Intelligence Offering
Quantexa has raised a further US$175 million, boosting estimated market valuation for the UK-based decision intelligence solutions provider to $2.6 billion. The company said the additional money will be used to “progress against its mission to help enterprises and government agencies across multiple markets stay ahead in the race for AI-driven DI”. The latest series…
Ensuring AI-Focussed Institutions Take out the Garbage: A-Team Group Webinar Preview
As data quality rises up institutions’ AI-implementation agendas, the next A-Team Group Data Management Insight webinar will take a deep-dive look into how they can ensure the information they feed into their models will give them accurate and valuable outputs. Avoiding Chaos The data management maxim of “garbage in, garbage out” can’t be more appropriate for artificial…
Bloomberg Expands Climate Risk Offering with MARS Enhancement
Bloomberg clients can now use the New York-based company’s MARS risk management tool to assess the threats to their portfolios from climate change. MARS Climate, an addition to the data behemoth’s physical and transition risk suite of analytics, offers climate scenario analyses based on the framework devised by the Network for Greening Financial System (NGFS)….
Unleashing the Power of AI for Financial Institutions with Snowflake and Amazon Web Services
Financial institutions are among the largest users of AI, deploying it for a range of use cases that, while already wide, will broaden in the future. A report by the International Monetary Fund has forecast that institutional spending on AI will surge 29% to US$97 billion by 2027. The technology has become crucial to automation…
Zema Global Chief Girds for Soaring Demand for Energy Data
Since its acquisition of Morningstar’s commodity information business late last year, energy industry intelligence provider Zema Global has become an important data feed for financial institutions that invest in the net-zero transition and to those trading in renewables, biofuels and fossil fuels. The transaction was a prescient one. While the Colorado, US-headquartered company has been…
Databricks and Frisco Tools Seek to Simplify Workflows
A deal between Databricks and Frisco Analytics is intended to simplify data workflows and unify siloes across enterprises. The tie-up will make Frisco’s data management tool available to clients on Databricks’ Data Intelligence Platform. Clients will have access to tools to integrate data management and governance, improve data quality and consistency and accelerate analytics and…