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Read on for the latest announcements on how Beacon’s clients, people, and technology are crafting the future of financial services in the cloud, as well as our insights on challenges facing the industry and how we help solve them.

As the finance industry trading volumes increase, end-of-day or even hourly modeling of position risks and portfolio exposures are not enough. Higher uncertainty and market volatility have been driving demands to significantly increase the performance interval of our risk analytics

Machine learning (ML) is becoming an important part of the technology toolkit in financial services. Companies are using these tools to better understand and evaluate models, find investment opportunities, expand portfolios, and adapt to rapidly changing market conditions. Perhaps the

Resilience: the capacity to recover quickly from unexpected events or challenges Resilience is a critical attribute of financial systems. There have certainly been no shortage of challenges and unexpected events in the past year that have strained the resilience of

If you are a quantitative analyst, Jupyter Notebook is a great application for researching signals, evaluating pricing models, and experimenting with data sets too large or complicated to do on spreadsheets. Jupyter Notebook makes it easy to run research, visualize

When I joined Beacon last month, as the Head of Banking Sales for North America, I was returning to familiar territory. Almost 30 years ago I began my career working on pricing and risk management software for derivatives at a

Alternative investments are projected to increase significantly over the next few years, growing from $9.3 trillion AUM in 2022 to $18.3 trillion in 2027. Interest rate increases, market volatility, and unexpected geopolitical events have impacted all asset classes, causing risk

“All data tells a story, and I love to dig in and make sure all the pieces are there.” Typical Day First Things Mids Last Things Position I am Beacon’s Sales Operation Specialist. I am a problem solver, and my

The release of ChatGPT by OpenAI late last year has taken the world by storm. Enterprises around the world have seen the tremendous potential of Large Language Models (LLMs) and Artificial Intelligence (AI), with their transformative forces touching virtually every

At Beacon, we firmly believe that together we can drive value creation far beyond what individual participants can achieve by themselves. Which is why we are actively building a global community of partners around our products and clients. The goal

Many of our clients are interested in building, or have already built, a single source of truth for their data. This does not mean that all data is stored in one massive data lake. It means that for every data

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