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Recorded Webinar: Strategies, tools and techniques to extract value from unstructured data
Unstructured data is voluminous, unwieldy and difficult to store and manage. For capital markets participants, it is also key to generating business insight, making better-informed decisions and delivering both internal and external value. Solving this dichotomy can be a challenge, but there are solutions designed to help financial institutions digest, manage and make best use…
Augmented Data Quality Webinar: Improving Data With AI
Financial institutions are testing the capabilities of artificial intelligence (AI) and its application to their operational workflows. For many of their use cases, AI is a yet-to-be-proven technology for both their third-party and in-house applications. In its application to data management, however, the stakes are higher: the success of AI in automating processes related to…
Why Artificial Intelligence isn’t Always a Clever Solution
James Maxfield, Chief Product Officer at Duco. It’s an exciting time for technology. There are some seriously powerful AI tools on the market, solving real issues that capital markets firms have been battling with for years, if not decades. Undoubtedly, this is just the start. Yet at the same time there’s a noticeable trend to…
The Nuts and Bolts of a Modern Data Management System According to Arcesium
The past 12 months have been busy ones for data management and technology provider Arcesium. Winning the award for Most Innovative North American Data Management Provider in A-Team Group’s Data Management Insight Awards USA 2023 and opening a new office in Portugal were among the highlights of a year that also saw the New York-headquartered company expand…
ESG Book Clients Offered Access to Vyzrd Climate Technology
Sustainability data provider ESG Book is to use Australian firm Vyzrd’s climate risk technology to help clients assess their portfolios’ exposure to threats posed by global warming. Clients of ESG Book’s SaaS-based platform will be able to use Vyzrd’s Climate Forward analytics to put a value on the risks that assets face from climate change…
TurinTech Deploys GenAI to Accelerate Financial Software
The costs associated with poor quality software coding are startling. In dollar terms alone, companies in the US incurred a US$2.4 trillion hit from the direct impacts and cost of correcting poor coding, according to a 2022 survey by the Consortium for Information and Software Quality (CISQ). That’s before indirect costs such as reputational and…
Insurance Stress Test Success Hangs on Data Quality and Management
Recently revealed tests to explore the resilience of insurers to external shocks are likely to succeed – or fail – on the data that the under-scrutiny firms possess. Data will be a central ingredient on the tests detailed last month by the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA), which oversees the industry. In its most recent communique,…
Writer Builds New LLM for Financial Sector
A new specialised large language model (LLM) has been created by American technology firm Writer for financial services firms based on its Palmyra products. The Palmyra-Fin-70b model enables firms’ generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) platforms to assist in financial forecasting, investment analysis, risk evaluation, fraud detection, and asset allocation strategies, the company said. The new LLM…
Crafting an Effective Data Strategy to Unlock Innovation
By Kelly Attrill, Head of Advisory & Consulting APAC at Lab49. Data can be both an asset and a liability. Used correctly, it can transform an organisation’s ability to unlock value and enable innovation. However, if data is mismanaged it can have catastrophic consequences. In financial services, firms recognise that the ever-increasing volume of data…
Bridgewise Brings AI-Powered Analytics to ETFs, Fund Space
AI-powered investment analysis platform Bridgewise has launched a research platform it says will close the gap in exchange-traded fund (ETF) and mutual fund analyses. The service will offer financial clients deep intel into ETF and fund performance, including that of their underlying assets, the company said. Bridgewise has deployed machine learning and micro-language models (MLMs)…