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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…
S&P Global Integrates with Intelligence Data into Capital IQ Pro Platform
S&P Global has begun integrating data assets from its recent acquisition of With Intelligence into its flagship S&P Capital IQ Pro platform. The initial rollout introduces investor allocation and commitment data, fund performance records, fund-level screening across private market asset classes, and editorial commentary from ‘The Deal’. This integration represents the first concrete product output…
Bloomberg Acquisition of Canoe Marks ‘Major’ Step in Private Markets for Data Behemoth
Bloomberg is to acquire private market data automation specialist Canoe Intelligence as the financial data behemoth seeks to expand its offerings in the booming market for alternatives data. In what the company says is one of the most significant deals in its history, Bloomberg has characterised the acquisition as the “latest step” in a multi-year…
Why Private Markets Need Numbers They Can Defend
By Gareth Hewitt, Founder, LemonEdge. Private markets run on confidence. Performance still matters but investor trust increasingly depends on whether a general partner (GP) can defend the numbers behind it and whether a limited partner (LP) has enough transparency to test and reconcile those numbers for itself. A capital account balance, valuation movement, fee calculation…
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…
How Much Hedge Fund Alpha Is Lost Before the Model Even Runs?
How often is a hedge fund’s apparent model failure actually a data failure in disguise? A model that stops working. A backtest that does not replicate. A risk number that needs explaining. How to tell one from the other – before reaching for the model first – was the recurring question of an hour-long discussion…
Are Firms Hunting Alpha Outside While Deleting It at Home?
A trading firm will pay for 15 years of price history from a market data vendor and, on a parallel housekeeping schedule, purge its own order flow, client activity and system logs after five to seven. The vendor history is treated as an asset worth a recurring licence fee. The firm’s own data – generated…
Clearstream Partners with Ares to Boost Access to Private Markets
Clearstream, the post-trade business of Deutsche Börse Group, has partnered with alternative investment manager Ares Management Corporation to add Ares’ private market strategies to its fund platform. The collaboration aims to simplify the investment process for fund distributors, allowing them to access private market investments with the same operational efficiency as traditional mutual funds. For…
MCPs in Data Management: Bringing New Order to Private Markets
Financial institutions have begun deploying Model Context Protocols (MCPs) as they have expanded the use of artificial intelligence applications and agents. The technology developed by Anthropic is an open-source contextual layer that helps coordinate models and data, enabling AI applications to connect with a multitude of other platforms and processes. In the first of a…
Direct Lending Practitioners Target Large Tech Budget Growth on Data
An overwhelming majority of private credit market practitioners are planning to substantially increase their technology budgets as they seek to address risks that are contributing to concerns about the direct lending sector. The Compass 2026 survey conducted for Oxane Partners – a technology provider for credit and other private markets – found that almost four-fifths…