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Bloomberg Offers Funds Data Solution via Data License
Bloomberg has released Funds Data Solution providing funds and exchange traded products (ETPs) data designed to help clients act on changing investment opportunities and support end-to-end workflows spanning portfolio construction, risk management, due diligence and operations. The solution covers over 135,000 unique funds and 12,000 ETPs that are available as foundational data, holdings, corporate actions,…
Solving the Enterprise Data Challenge for Institutional Investors
Institutional investors are evolving under pressure from a range of emergent externalities that are prompting many to assume new roles and processes, some of which have traditionally been the preserve of asset managers. Enabled by data-led technology, they are making more direct investments and managing their portfolios in-house. At the same time, they are streamlining…
ICE Benchmark Administration Provides Update on LIBOR Cessation and Synthetic LIBOR
ICE Benchmark Administration (IBA), the authorised and regulated administrator of LIBOR, has provided an update on LIBOR settings yet to be ceased and synthetic LIBOR methodologies. The UK FCA issued its final messages on LIBOR at the end of May 2023, prior to the end of the US dollar LIBOR panel and reminding market participants…
KX Collaborates with AWS to Make kdb Insights a Managed Service on Amazon FinSpace
KX, creator of the kdb+ time series and analytics database, has teamed up with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to make kdb Insights available as a fully managed service on Amazon FinSpace. Managed kdb Insights enables investment banks and hedge funds to launch, configure, run, and scale capital markets analytics and AI workloads with just a…
Solidatus Offers Attribute Lineage for IBM z/OS Mainframes
Solidatus has added attribute lineage for IBM z/OS mainframes, enabling users to automatically map mainframe metadata into Solidatus and create active blueprints from which they can derive actionable insights, de-risk operations, access visualisation, and plan for changes such as migrating to the cloud. “I’m hugely excited by this initiative to automate the process of visualising…
Automation Failure in Capital Markets – Why We Need to Talk About Data Management
By James Maxfield, Head of Product at Duco. ‘I don’t understand what all these people do?’ is a common question in capital markets as budgets are set for the next cycle and the C-team (EO,FO,OO) queries its cost base. This creates a cycle of justification from process owners – ops, risk, finance – who usually…
Crux Software-as-a-Service Platform Automates Integration of External Data
Crux, provider of a data integration, transformation, and observability solution, has released Crux External Data Platform, a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offering designed to allow organisations to onboard thousands of external datasets directly from vendors into internal data systems and drive better, faster decisions. Crux builds data pipelines at scale, allowing enterprises to ingest any custom data…
SwanCap Implements Canoe Intelligence to Manage Alternative Investment Documents and Data Processes
Munich-based SwanCap Partners, an independent investment boutique, is working with Canoe Intelligence, a provider of alternative investment solutions, to automate and manage its document collection and data management processes, specifically for its capital calls, distributions, and account statements. SwanCap has implemented two Canoe solutions: Canoe Connect, to automatically collect alternative investment documents from portals and…
Strategy and Tools for Tracking Licensed Data
By Neil Sandle, Chief Product Officer, Alveo. Indices are tools used to track how asset classes, industry sectors, market segments, and a host of other physical and virtual sets of data perform over time. Leading examples can be found in the realm of financial services, in particular with stock markets where the FTSE 100, NASDAQ…
Informatica Plans Second Half Release of CLAIRE GPT
Informatica, a provider of cloud data management solutions, is planning a second half 2023 release of CLAIRE GPT, a generative AI-powered data management platform that will become part of its Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC). The company describes CLAIRE GPT, which is based on its enterprise-scale AI engine, as the next generation of the IDMC…