Arcesium, a provider of investment lifecycle and data management technology, has launched Aquata® Marketplace, an interoperable data ecosystem for the institutional investment industry. The new offering provides users of the Aquata data platform with access to pre-configured integrations with 20 third-party partners.
This ecosystem includes data and software providers, counterparties, and fund administrators. The aim is to streamline data workflows, accelerate time-to-insight, and reduce the need for extensive data integration efforts. Institutional investment firms using Aquata® Marketplace can enhance data ingestion, analytics, visualization, and reporting tasks by rapidly establishing connectivity to common external data sources. This allows them to improve the efficiency of workflows such as research, portfolio management, performance analysis, and investor and regulatory reporting, launching new analytics workflows in a matter of days.
As asset managers, hedge funds, and private markets funds increasingly scale their AI strategies, Aquata Marketplace is designed to support greater AI readiness by providing rapid access to comprehensive data for advanced analytical workflows.
Bryan Dougherty, Chief Technology Officer at Arcesium, stated, “Today, investment firms’ ability to differentiate depends on intelligent use of data and AI, and rapid connectivity is a vital piece of that strategy. Firms must wrangle a multitude of data connectors to access the inputs needed to enable advanced analytical outputs. Aquata Marketplace bridges these critical data gaps, unlocks interoperability, and enables organizations to focus on data projects that drive a competitive edge. Our clients can now quickly access and analyze all their important data in one platform. This allows them to redeploy data engineering resources further up the value chain, fuel AI projects, and interact with their data in more impactful ways.”
Aquata Marketplace was developed to eliminate the time and resources typically required to build connectors to various data sources, including market and alternative data, systems of record, risk and performance platforms, counterparties, and fund administrators. This enables investment firms to accelerate their data strategies and improve operational efficiencies. The platform combines data connectivity and data management within a single offering, accessible to business users through a low-code interface.
Through Aquata Marketplace, institutional investment firms can swiftly achieve a harmonized view of data across all assets, both public and private, and across various fund structures. Current partners available on a mutual customer basis within Aquata Marketplace include Accelex, Confluence, ESG Book, and PM Insights, alongside other industry data and software providers, counterparties, and fund administrators.
Arcesium is a global financial technology company specializing in pre- and post-investment and enterprise data management solutions for institutions such as private market firms, hedge funds, and institutional asset managers. Its cloud-native technology is designed to systematize complex workflows and create a synchronized golden source of data within a client’s ecosystem. Arcesium currently services over $4.3 trillion in gross AUM and more than $550 billion in sell-side capital balances, having modeled over 125 million investments to date.
The company originated from a platform developed by the D. E. Shaw group and was launched as a joint venture with Blackstone Alternative Asset Management. J.
P. Morgan, a client, later made a strategic investment in the company. Arcesium employs over 2,000 software engineering, accounting, operations, and treasury professionals.
