Asset manager Franklin Templeton and Microsoft are collaborating to develop a platform for financial services that uses artificial intelligence (A.I.) technology to initially improve the productivity of the firm’s sales and marketing teams and to foster personalized services for clients. The new A.I. platform to come will use Microsoft Azure A.I. services such as Azure… Read More >>
Janus Henderson Moves to Cloud-Based Data Platform
Active asset manager Janus Henderson has begun an implementation of a global, cloud-based, investment data management platform that will eventually yield a consolidated, unified data store. The new cloud-based platform from BNY Mellon, a custodian bank and service provider, is intended help clients centralize and better manage complex investment assets, officials say. A cloud-based solution… Read More >>
Top Cloud Providers Join EDM Council Group: Q&A
(Late last month, a global trade association for data management, the EDM Council, announced that it had launched the Cloud Data Management Capabilities (CDMC) Best Practices Work Group with the mission of developing an open source CDMC Best Practice Framework that would accelerate cloud adoption and facilitate associated controls. The EDM Council, which has 10,000… Read More >>
BlackRock’s Aladdin Moves to Microsoft’s Azure Cloud
Aladdin to Get Scalability, More Client Capabilities Microsoft will be hosting the infrastructure for the BlackRock’s Aladdin investment management and operations platform via the Microsoft Azure cloud platform, a move that the asset manager says will facilitate scalability for computing power and new client capabilities. BlackRock and Microsoft Corp. formed a hosting partnership for Aladdin,… Read More >>
Smarsh-Microsoft Partnership Targets Financial Services Firms
Smarsh, a vendor of cloud-based archiving solutions, has joined Microsoft’s One Commercial Partner (OCP) co-selling program just as more of Smarsh’s financial services customers move their messaging infrastructures to Microsoft Office365, a subscription service for the Microsoft Office product line. The go-to-market strategy will mean that Smarsh via its cloud-native Enterprise Archive offering could grow… Read More >>
Eagle & Microsoft Building a Public Cloud Offering
Eagle Investment Systems is working with Microsoft to develop an Azure, public cloud-based data management platform that will serve as an alternative offering to Eagle’s incumbent private cloud service Eagle Access. “Eagle originally announced its digital transformation, including plans to build a new cloud platform, at the Engage16 Eagle client conference,” says Mike Fitzgerald, chief… Read More >>
Major Ops Industry Players Put Blockchain to the Test
The raging romance between financial services firms and blockchain technologies is heading toward a new phase where projects, tests and proof-of-concept efforts are beginning to yield results that will help industry players revamp or even replace key securities operations. Over the last few weeks, the signs have been encouraging: Deutsche Börse Group and HQLAX have… Read More >>
BNY Mellon Integrates the Former Albridge Analytics
BNY Mellon Weaves Intermediary Analytics into Asset Servicing BNY Mellon, a provider of investment management and investment services, reports an expansion of its Intermediary Analytics solutions suite, formerly Albridge Analytics. “The integration of Intermediary Analytics into BNY Mellon’s Asset Servicing business facilitates the creation of new and enhanced distribution solutions intended to help BNY Mellon… Read More >>
Sapient Global Markets Tightens Links to Microsoft Azure
Sapient Global Markets (SGM), a technology and consulting services provider, will be tightening its collaboration with Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing service, and Sapient’s CMRS regulatory reporting platform will be taking full advantage of the greater joint effort, officials say. “We have had CMRS on Azure for the last two years but we are now enhancing… Read More >>
Microsoft’s Azure Supports UBS Risk Mitigation
UBS officials are acknowledging that they are using the Microsoft Azure cloud computing service to support risk management efforts, and will use Azure technology for a wider digital transformation. The bank needs to increase the agility and scalability of its technology infrastructure, which key to the bank’s strategy, says Paul McEwen, UBS Group head of… Read More >>
