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Private Markets Growth Exposes Asset Servicing’s Infrastructure Gap
By Toby Glaysher, Chairman, FINBOURNE. Asset servicers face a paradox: winning business in the industry’s fastest-growing segment whilst discovering that growth erodes rather than enhances profitability. Private markets represent both strategic opportunity and operational crisis, exposing fundamental limitations in infrastructure built for a different era. When growth creates problems The expansion into private credit, infrastructure…
Bloomberg Compresses Delivery Times for Alternative Data
Bloomberg has launched Data Entitlements within the alternatives-focused ALTD function on its Terminal, integrating analytics from providers such as Placer.ai and Similarweb into the existing investment research platform. The service reduces the delivery lag of key performance indicator estimates to between three and five days, Bloomberg said. Richard Lai, global head of alternative data at…
Canoe Joins Confluence to Enhance Portfolio Management Data Offering
Alternative investment data specialist Canoe Intelligence has formed a partnership that integrates its Canoe Connect system with with Confluence Technologies’ Portfolio Analytics and Reporting Information System to automate data workflows for asset allocators. The agreement combines artificial intelligence-driven document collection with advanced analytics to streamline reporting for private-market portfolios, enabling institutional investors to monitor asset…
Agentic AI Deployment Presents Potentially Dangerous Data ‘Trust Paradox’
Artificial intelligence deployment in capital markets’ data processes may be approaching an inflection point that, if not managed properly, could introduce dangerous risks to institutions’ operations. The growing deployment of anonymous agents has the potential to hardwire data errors into workflows, magnifying data weaknesses as the automating technology scales processes, according Informatica from Salesforce. The…
7Rivers Q&A: Enabling Modern Data Processing
Milwaukee, Wisconsin-based 7Rivers gives its clients the tools to draw actionable insights and real-world applications from their data. A-Team Group Data Management Insight spoke to Jessica Emhoff, Vice President of Marketing, about the company and how it is empowering financial institutions. Data Management Insight: Hello Jessica. Can you tell us a bit about how 7Rivers…
Alteryx Integrates With BigQuery as it Widens Google Cloud Tie-Up
Alteryx has expanded a partnership with Google Cloud to integrate its services with the BigQuery data platform. The collaboration introduces Live Query for BigQuery, a feature that allows users to build and execute analytics workflows directly within the data warehouse without moving information. This in-place approach aims to bridge the gap between where data resides…
GenAI Yet to Dominate Quant Teams, Bloomberg Survey Finds
Generative artificial intelligence is yet to take a firm hold within investment research workflows, with more than half of quant-team professionals interviewed in a Bloomberg survey saying that had yet to implement the technology. The study of 150 quant leaders found that machine learning is well established but 54 per cent hadn’t yet adopted GenAI….
Snowflake Retools Cortex to Offer FSI Tailored AI Capabilities
Snowflake’s Cortex AI features has been enriched to provide financial services companies with agentic artificial intelligence capabilities honed to their specific needs, the first of a planned suite of editions focused on individual industries. Cortex AI for Financial Services will feature all the functionality of the platform’s Cortex features but will offer clients large language models that…
Rimes Adds Analytics, Order Book Functionality with Partnerships
Rimes has forged partnerships with PANTA, BMLL and Ortec Finance, integrating specialised analytics and historical order book data into the enterprise data management provider’s platform. The collaboration aims to provide clients with index blending capabilities, market-microstructure analysis and performance attribution. Vijay Mayadas said the company is providing deeper analytics and interoperable data to help clients…
Data Automator Xceptor Offers Platform Ready-Made for AI
Dan Reid is not surprised that Xceptor, the data automation giant he formed two decades ago, finds itself at the vanguard of a change in the way financial institutions regard and use documents. The rapid and accurate parsing of information from paper- and PDF-based reports has been made possible thanks to recent developments in artificial intelligence. The volume…