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Alternatives Data Service Firm Canoe Raises $36m in New Funding
Canoe Intelligence has raised US$36 million in a Series C round to help the alternatives market technology company build out its artificial intelligence-supported fund master database services. The fundraising was led by Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives. F-Prime Capital and Eight Roads, which contributed to a previous cash injection last year, also joined the…
DMI Webinar Preview: How to Maximise the use of Data Standards and Identifiers Beyond Compliance and in the Interests of the Business
Data must be consistent, accurate and interoperable to ensure financial institutions can use it in their investment, risk, regulatory compliance and other processes. Without those attributes, they won’t achieve the efficiencies, surface the insights, action decisions or realise the many other benefits of digitalisation. Identifiers and standards ensure those attributes can be met. The challenge…
Duco Unveils AI-Powered Reconciliation Product for Unstructured Data
Duco, a data management automation specialist and recent A-Team Group RegTech Insight Awards winner, has launched an artificial intelligence-powered end-to-end reconciliation capability for unstructured data. The Adaptive Intelligent Document Processing product will enable financial institutions to automate the extraction of unstructured data for ingestion into their systems. The London-based company said this will let market…
Delta Capita to Provide CLM to European Unit of Daiwa
Capital markets consulting, managed services and technology firm Delta Capita is to provide its client lifecycle management (CLM) product to investment bank Daiwa Capital Markets Europe. The investment banking subsidiary of Japanese brokerage Daiwa Securities said Delta’s CLM will help its international clients gain exposure to the Asian nation’s markets at a time of growing…
ESG Book Names RegTech Veteran Fitzpatrick as New Chief Executive
ESG Book has named Justin Fitzpatrick, the founder and executive of several UK-based RegTech companies, as its new chief executive replacing global sustainability leader Daniel Klier. The Germany-based data and tech company, which made headlines in 2021 when it put a large part of its ESG database on a free-to-use platform, said Fitzpatrick has “deep expertise…
Building Future Growth Around a Foundational Data Core: SIX’s Marion Leslie
There’s a neat symmetry in speaking to Marion Leslie, head of financial information at SIX after one of the busiest six months in the company’s recent history. SIX, a global data aggregator and operator of exchanges in its native Switzerland, as well as in Spain, has released a flurry of new data products since January,…
AI Startup BlueFlame Raises $5m for Alternative Markets Data Platform
BlueFlame AI, a start-up that harnesses artificial intelligence to help alternative market participants streamline their operational, regulatory and clerical processes, has raised US$5 million in a Series A funding round. The cash injection, which will be used to further develop BlueFlame’s AI platform, raises the company’s value to $50m, the New York- and London-based company…
Moody’s-MSCI Partnership Seen Impacting ESG Ratings Sector
Moody’s and MSCI have bolstered their ESG offerings with a tie-up that will see them share some of each other’s sustainability capabilities in a move that’s been predicted to concentrate global ESG ratings provision. As part of the arrangement, ratings provider Moody’s will gain access to MSCI’s data and models, which will eventually replace its…
AI in Asset Management: Buy-Side Attitudes toward GenAI and LLMs
Since ChatGPT exploded onto the scene in late 2022, financial markets participants have been trying to understand the opportunities and risks posed by artificial intelligence and in particular generative AI (GenAI) and large language models (LLMs). While the full value of the technology continues to become apparent, it’s already clear that AI has enormous potential…
Practicalities of Implementing GenAI in Capital Markets
Following the opening keynote of A-Team Group’s AI in Capital Markets Summit (AICMS), a panel of expert speakers focused on the practicalities of implementing GenAI. The panel agreed that industry hype is waning and there is enthusiasm for GenAI with firms beginning to develop use cases, although one speaker noted: “People understand the risks and…