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How QuantumStreet AI Tackles the Journey From Signal to Portfolio
AI is becoming increasingly sophisticated at identifying patterns and generating investment signals from disparate sources of financial and market data. But for systematic investors, those signals still have to be converted into something much more concrete: a portfolio that determines which assets to hold, in what proportions, and with what degree of conviction. Doing that…
Moving Up the Value Chain: 3AI on AI, Alternative Data and Investment Intelligence
Traditional financial and market information now sits alongside news, sentiment, analyst estimates and a growing universe of alternative datasets, creating an increasingly rich information environment for investment firms. But access to more data doesn’t necessarily translate into better investment decisions. Firms still have to establish which information has genuine predictive value, turn disparate datasets into…
Beyond the API: FactSet on Making Financial Data Ready for Agentic AI
The effectiveness of an AI agent ultimately depends on the quality, context and structure of the information it can access. For investment firms, that puts familiar challenges around data quality, provenance and integration firmly back on the agenda – while potentially changing what they expect from their data providers. “When you’re selling data, you’re not…
Alternative Data in Capital Markets Handbook 2026
Alternative data adoption in capital markets has moved into a more disciplined phase. Simply possessing a dataset is no longer a differentiator – the priority now is how data is sourced, synthesised and deployed, and how quickly granular, disaggregated signals can be turned into validated, decision-ready insight. The 2026 edition of the Alternative Data in…
Rethinking Alternative Data Infrastructure with Aerospike
Investment firms have never had access to more data. From corporate filings and social media to satellite imagery, transaction data and other alternative sources, the range of information that can potentially feed the investment process continues to expand. But as AI becomes embedded more deeply into research and investment workflows, the challenge is shifting. Simply…
S&P Global QnA: Adaptive Retrieval Smooths Data Access and Use
S&P Global Market Intelligence launched Adaptive Retrieval last month, promising to give clients greater flexibility in accessing and using the ratings giant’s data via their large language models (LLMs) and agents. Complementing S&P Global’s existing Deterministic Retrieval tool, which is built on the Kensho LLM-ready API, the latest innovation enables users to query and make…
Multiplying the Value of Unstructured Data
Financial institutions have spent years expanding the range of data available to investment, trading and risk teams. Increasingly, however, the challenge is not obtaining more data but making sense of what they already have. Unstructured data is estimated to account for 80-90% of the information generated withinfinancial institutions, encompassing everything from regulatory filings and earnings-call…
How ExtractAlpha Builds Trust in the Age of AI Signals
When a data provider sells raw data, the buyer can inspect what they are getting. When a provider sells a signal – a ranking, a score, a forecast of forward returns – the buyer is being asked to trust a research process they cannot necessarily see. That asymmetry sits at the centre of the systematic…
BMLL and SIGMA AI Partner to Benchmark Live Market Flow Against Historical Order Book Data
BMLL and SIGMA AI have announced a partnership combining BMLL’s historical Level 3, 2 and 1 order book data with SIGMA’s “Quant in the Cloud” streaming platform, producing an analytics layer that scores live market flow against historical benchmarks. The stated use cases are real-time anomaly detection, market regime classification and execution benchmarking, with anticipated…
A-Team Group Announces Capital Markets Technology APAC Awards 2026 Winners and Launches ‘State of the Market’ Report
A-Team Group today announced the highly anticipated winners of the Capital Markets Technology APAC Awards 2026. These prestigious awards celebrate the most innovative solution providers and financial institutions that are reshaping the capital markets technology landscape across the dynamic Asia Pacific region. In conjunction with the awards, A-Team Group has also launched the “State of…