Arcesium Unveils Aquata® Marketplace to Power Data Connectivity, Elevate Workflows and Accelerate AI Readiness for Institutional Investors
NEW YORK, NY – October 7, 2025 – Arcesium, a leading provider of investment lifecycle and data management technology for the global investment industry, today announces the launch of Aquata® Marketplace, an interoperable data ecosystem and the first of its kind for the institutional investment industry. Aquata Marketplace provides users of the Aquata data platform with access to pre-configured integrations with 20 third-party partners including data and software providers, counterparties, and fund administrators. The rapidly growing ecosystem of out-of-the-box connectors streamlines data workflows, unlocks faster time-to-insight, and removes the need for time-intensive and costly data integration efforts.
Through access to out-of-the box connections to a specialized investment industry ecosystem of data providers, institutional investment firms can accelerate data ingestion, analytics, visualization and reporting tasks. By rapidly establishing connectivity to common external data sources, Aquata users can significantly improve the efficiency of workflows such as research and 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 continue to scale up their AI strategies, Aquata Marketplace enables firms to achieve greater AI readiness through rapid access to comprehensive data to support their advanced analytical workflows.
Bryan Dougherty, Chief Technology Officer at Arcesium commented: “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 designed to eliminate the significant amounts of time and resources required to build connectors to market and alternative data sources, systems of record, risk and performance platforms, counterparties, and fund administrators, enabling investment firms to accelerate their data strategies while driving operational efficiencies. It uniquely enables both data connectivity and data management in one platform and is accessible to business users through a low-code interface.
Through Aquata Marketplace, institutional investment firms will be able to quickly access a harmonized view of data across all assets, public and private, as well as all fund structures. Partners currently accessible on a mutual customer basis within Aquata Marketplace include Accelex, Confluence, ESG Book, PM Insights, as well as other industry data and software providers, counterparties, and fund administrators.
Arcesium’s Marketplace is now available to users of the Aquata platform. Aquata is an enterprise data management platform for the investment industry which encompasses data ingestion, harmonization, governance, analytics, reporting and distribution.
About Arcesium:
Arcesium is a global financial technology company delivering pre- and post-investment and enterprise data management solutions to some of the world’s most sophisticated financial institutions, including private market firms, hedge funds, and institutional asset managers. Expertly designed to achieve a synchronized golden source of data throughout a client’s ecosystem, Arcesium’s cloud-native technology is built to systematize the most complex workflows and help clients achieve scale.
Today, Arcesium services over $4.3 trillion in gross AUM and over $550 billion in sell-side capital balances and has modeled over 125 million investments to date. Arcesium was built from a platform developed and tested by investment and technology development firm, the D. E. Shaw group, and launched as a joint venture with Blackstone Alternative Asset Management. J.P. Morgan, another large client, later made a strategic investment in the company, helping Arcesium further its mission: to power the entire investment lifecycle. Arcesium currently has a staff of over 2,000 software engineering, accounting, operations, and treasury professionals.
For more information about Arcesium and its capabilities, visit www.arcesium.com and follow the firm on LinkedIn.
Arcesium Media Contact:
Danielle Meyer, Aspectus Group
