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Embrace the Threat: How Software Firms Can Head Off ‘SaaS-pocalypse’

Recent stock market losses among software providers have prompted some analysts to predict a coming “SaaS-pocalypse” as software companies are threatened by artificial intelligence that can write code and build software quickly and cheaply. The doomsayers may be premature, however. While AI undoubtedly has the ability to supplant some of those firms, it also presents…

New ICE Data Product Provides Transparency into Private Markets

Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) has created ICE Private Credit Intelligence to increase transparency in the private credit market. The platform establishes a data infrastructure layer for the US$40 trillion asset class by offering secure data sharing and standardised reference sets. Apollo serves as the anchor partner for the launch, which aims to provide data consistency similar…

Risks and Opportunities of GenAI, Data Products Under the Microscope: DMS London Preview

Artificial intelligence has made it possible to extract critical data from unstructured sources at speed and at scale. But the headlong rush to adopt the sorts of tools that can mine this rich vein of information is exposing organisations to new risks. Generative AI, whose models are commonly applied to trawling PDFs, emails, financial reports…

Alkymi’s AI-led Private Credit Seeks to Bring Transparency to Growing Market

Credit has become a key growth pole for private investors as loans and similar instruments have benefited from rising rates and wider public credit spreads. Interest in the sector is so strong that Morgan Stanley forecasts its value will rise to $5tn by 2029 from $3tn this year. The difficulty for institutional investors clamouring to…

Personal Investment Pain Point Sparks Idea for Fast-Growing Wealth Tech Firm Goodfin

Anna Joo Fee had a problem. The Wall Street lawyer was so busy in her job that managing her wealth adequately was difficult. Her options were limited, however. Institutions wanted the capital that high earners could offer, but were not best placed to serve the market. And she wasn’t confident in her own knowledge to…

Scaling the Unstructured: 10 Leaders in Intelligent Data Processing

Huge swaths of critical financial information, from private credit agreements and ESG disclosures to complex tax documentation, is locked in unstructured formats such as digital documents and PDFs. The manual bottleneck this creates for the middle and back office eats into valuable resources. A key means to achieving this, Intelligent Data Processing (IDP), represent a…

NeoXam Sets Sights on Narrowing Private Data Gap Between GPs and LPs

As demand for private markets data accelerates, asset allocators are finding themselves having to play digital catch up with their investor counterparts. General partners (GPs), who manage private funds and allocate capital invested by limited partners (LPs) have found themselves technologically behind the curve as institutional investors plough into the once-niche markets. But because LPs are…