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S&P Global Completes Acquisition of Visible Alpha
S&P Global has completed its acquisition of Visible Alpha, a provider of industry and segment consensus data, creating a premium offering of fundamental investment research capabilities on S&P Global Market Intelligence’s Capital IQ Pro platform. Founded in 2015, Visible Alpha provides consensus forecast estimates, key performance indicators, and analytics from in-depth sell-side analyst models and…
FactSet Expands GenAI Offerings with Portfolio Commentary
FactSet, provider of a financial digital platform and enterprise solutions, has expanded its GenAI offerings with Portfolio Commentary. The solution complements the company’s performance attribution capabilities with detailed and source-linked commentary allowing buy-side and wealth managers to understand key drivers of portfolio performance more holistically. Powered by large language models (LLMs), Portfolio Commentary also reduces…
Snowflake Releases Arctic Open-Source LLM for Complex Enterprise Workloads
Snowflake has released Arctic, an open-source large language model (LLM) designed to deliver top-tier intelligence and efficiency at scale, and optimised for complex enterprise workloads. The company’s debut of its own open-source LLM takes it into competition with the likes of OpenAI’s GPT-4, Google’s Gemini, Meta Platforms’ Llama 2 and Mistral AI’s Mixtral. Snowflake Arctic…
A-Team Group Names Winners of Innovation Awards 2024
A-Team Group has named the winners of its prestigious Innovation Awards 2024. The awards celebrate innovative projects and teams across vendor and practitioner communities that make use of new and emerging technologies to deliver high-value solutions for financial institutions in capital markets with a focus on data management, trading technology, RegTech or ESG. This year’s…
Investment Manager River Global Implements Bloomberg Solutions for New Tech Stack
A win for Bloomberg with UK-based investment manager River Global implementing a suite of the company’s solutions as its new tech-stack to support front-to-back office investment workflows. Solutions adopted by the investment manager include Bloomberg AIM for order and investment management and BQuant Enterprise for quantitative analysis. “By adopting Bloomberg’s integrated offerings, we have seamless…
SimCorp Integrates Software and Services to Deliver SimCorp One
SimCorp, a subsidiary of Deutsche Börse Group, has introduced an integrated platform for the global buy-side, SimCorp One. The platform includes Dimension, Simcorp’s automated investment management software, and Axioma factor risk models, portfolio construction tools, and multi-asset class enterprise risk solutions acquired in a merger late last year. Other elements comprise client communications, the company’s…
Bridgewise Raises $21M to Expand AI Financial Intelligence Platform for Global Securities
Bridgewise, the AI-powered investment analysis platform, has successfully completed a $21 million funding round, increasing its total capital raised to $35 million. The investment was spearheaded by SIX Group and included contributions from Group11 and L4 Venture Builder, along with other global financial institutions. The company provides advanced AI-driven solutions that serve a diverse client…
Clearwater Analytics to Acquire Risk and Performance Analytics Solutions from Wilshire
Clearwater Analytics, a provider of software-as-a-service (SaaS) based investment management, accounting, reporting, and analytics solutions, has entered a definitive agreement to acquire risk and performance analytics solutions from Wilshire Advisors, a financial services firm. Clearwater will acquire Wilshire AxiomSM, Wilshire AtlasSM, Wilshire Abacus and Wilshire iQComposite, which cover fixed income analytics, equity analytics and performance…
Confluence Adds MSCI ESG Research Data into Style Analytics
Confluence Technologies, a solutions provider to the investment management industry, has integrated MSCI ESG Research data into its factor investing analytics solution, Style Analytics. The data will help asset managers and fund selectors by offering in-depth analysis, comparison, and enhancement of portfolios. Damian Handzy, managing director, analytics, at Confluence, comments: “Style Analytics’ integration of MSCI’s…
Snowflake Reviews the Rise of the Chatbot
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly being used to create chatbots with 46% of apps falling into this category in May 2023, and the percentage continuing to rise. This shows a shift from LLM applications with text-based input, 82% in 2023 and 54% in 2024, to those with iterative text input and offering the ability…