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Why Data Governance Is Becoming Critical to the Modern Market Data Stack
The rapid expansion of alternative and specialised market datasets is transforming how financial institutions source, analyse and operationalise information. Alongside traditional market data feeds from exchanges and major vendors, firms now consume a growing array of niche datasets supporting quantitative research, AI workflows and investment decision-making. This surge in data consumption is creating new operational…
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…
Physics vs History: Reframing Commodity Yield Intelligence
Commodity markets still move on yield surprises. Despite the rise of alternative data, institutional crop forecasting remains dominated by statistical extrapolation, weather overlays and government survey reports. Historical datasets are mined for patterns. Weather models are layered on top. Monthly revisions from agencies such as the USDA continue to anchor expectations. Yet beneath that familiar…
SimCorp Opens Axioma Factor Research Library to Quant Investors
SimCorp has introduced the Axioma Factor Library Suite, giving quantitative investors access to a broad set of proprietary equity and macro factors derived from the research underpinning its Axioma risk models. The dataset is aimed at hedge funds, systematic investors and asset managers seeking to expand the signal universe available for portfolio construction and strategy…
LSEG Launches Model-as-a-Service, Extending Marketplace Strategy into Financial Models
LSEG has launched Model-as-a-Service (MaaS), expanding its marketplace strategy beyond data distribution into the hosting, commercialisation and integration of financial models. At launch, Societe Generale has joined as a provider, making fixed income, FX, ESG and equities analytics available through the platform. The move positions LSEG not just as a data vendor, but as an…
Bloomberg Transforms Real-Time News into Structured Data for Systematic Workflows
Bloomberg has enhanced its Real-Time News Feeds with new customisable, machine-readable delivery options designed for direct integration into automated trading and risk systems. While framed as a product expansion, the development reflects a broader structural shift: narrative news is increasingly being positioned as a structured, real-time data asset within systematic investment architectures. The new feeds…
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…
Introducing Market & Alt Data Insight: Advancing the Industrialisation of Data in Financial Markets
Financial markets are entering a new phase in the evolution of data. Data has always underpinned trading and investment workflows. What has changed is the scale, diversity and strategic management of that data across the enterprise. Traditional market data, alternative signals, derived datasets and AI-generated features now sit on the same operational continuum. The strategic…
Bloomberg and Kaiko Move to Extend Licensed Market Data into Tokenised Environments
Bloomberg and Kaiko have announced a collaboration aimed at enabling Bloomberg’s reference and pricing data to be accessed within blockchain-based tokenised market infrastructures. The initial focus is on tokenised U.S. Treasuries and repo use cases on the Canton Network. Under the arrangement, Bloomberg Data License content will be made available on-chain through Kaiko’s infrastructure, with…