Enterprise Data Management (EDM+)

A data foundation that knows what the data is for. Reference, market and entity data mastered in the same store that holds your positions.

The Industry Challenge

Investment firms run on data, but that data is typically scattered across dozens of systems, formats, and vendors. Reconciling it absorbs disproportionate effort. Trusting the result is harder than it should be. The majority of technology spend goes to maintaining existing systems, leaving little room for innovation or growth.

How FINBOURNE helps

Your systems stay where they are. EDM+ works with what you already run. Each source system keeps its own model and its own identifiers inside its own scope, mastered without being forced into a single shape. Aladdin, SimCorp, Geneva, Multifonds, your administrator’s files: they can stay where they are. EDM+ becomes the layer that agrees on what is true, and every value stays traceable to the source it came from.

Seamless integration with any data source

Connect to any system or provider through 850+ APIs. Use a flexible, entitlement-aware data model with built-in multi-tenancy that evolves with your business. Add new instruments and asset classes without the months of development and testing that new integrations normally require.

Unified, trusted data foundation

Access a single, virtualised dataset. Pull, master, view, and transform live data from any source without moving or duplicating it. Automate reconciliation across your entire data universe.

Instant access to complete data histories

Replay any data point on any past date, exactly as it was understood then, and again as it is understood now. Every value carries both the date it applied and the date you learned it, so a price restated last week never overwrites what your team saw at the time.

The data layer your AI agents need

Your data foundation is also your AI foundation. FINBOURNE's financial operating layer gives AI agents the domain context, entitlements, and audit trail they need to reason over live investment data, not stale snapshots.

ACCESS LAYER
Your team
Your AI
Your systems

Connect

Brokers Custodians Trade execution data Third party apps Data stores Fund admins Public & private market data

VIRTUALIZE

Governed, automated risk data delivery for a major pension fund

Trust

DATA QUALITY

Your data: accurate, complete, reliable

MASTER

Resolves conflicts across systems into one trusted record

OPERATIONAL DATA STORE

Full history, as-of any point in time, for audit & restatement

Act

OMS PMS IBOR Compliance Fund accounting Transfer agency
+ more

Award-winning excellence

Features

01

Data virtualisation and analytics

Query across your entire data universe without moving or copying data. A single access point that exposes data from any underlying source, allowing it to be queried, joined, and transformed on the fly. Power dashboards, reports, BI tools, and AI agents from a single governed layer.

02

Data quality

Configurable validation rules with automated exception detection. Data quality scores provide confidence metrics across your entire data universe. Exception workflows route issues to the right team with full context.

03

Data mastering

Instruments and securities, prices and time series, corporate actions, credit ratings, ESG, legal entities and counterparties, funds and portfolios, and client-defined datasets. The authoritative view is resolved on query from all contributing sources, not a persisted copy.

04

Data governance and lineage

The rules, ownership and accountability for your data. Define who is responsible for each dataset, what quality standards apply, and what entitlements govern access. Data lineage is the evidential counterpart: the factual record of where data came from, what transformed it, and where it went.

05

Reconciliation

Repeatable reconciliations across any combination of internal systems, custodians, administrators, and counterparties. Configurable matching rules. Exception-based dashboards surface breaks instantly.

06

Data matching

Flexible mapping and matching rules to align data from multiple sources, different identifiers, naming conventions, and taxonomies, into a trusted, unified dataset. Cross-referencing across multiple vendor codes with configurable priority hierarchies.

AI

AI in financial services needs governed data to work. With FINBOURNE, there are no RAG pipelines, no text-to-SQL against raw databases. EDM+ sits between your AI agents and your data, giving them live, governed access to financial concepts rather than tables, with entitlements enforced and every call auditable as at any point in time. Connect over MCP and use the AI tools you already use.

Fund accounting agent Transfer agency agent Private equity agent + more

David Pierson: AI and the financial operating layer

Client stories

Asset servicers

Modernising legacy data infrastructure at a global custodian

A global custodian bank’s data transformation systems were built in the early 2000s. Hard-coded processes, on-premise hardware, and approaching retirements among the few staff who understood the systems created serious key-person risk. EDM+ was deployed to automate ingestion, cleaning, and reconciliation of third-party data, replacing the legacy pipeline with cloud-based computing and configurable workflows. Data virtualisation integrates with the bank’s data mesh for client-facing data provision. Delivered without disruption to end clients throughout the transition.

Asset owners

Governed, automated risk data delivery for a major pension fund

A major pension fund wanted its risk data mastered, governed and delivered automatically rather than operated by hand. EDM+ ingests and masters daily risk data from multiple providers, with data virtualisation providing continuous, governed access to analytics and BI tooling. Historical trend analysis, previously unavailable, is now possible on demand.

Asset managers

Data orchestration for a large European multi-strategy fund

A large European alternatives asset manager needed a governed central store for its security master, valuations and analytics. EDM+ was deployed as the centralised data orchestration layer, integrating with three prime brokers, a fund administrator, and risk and performance attribution systems. The bitemporal database captures data evolution over time, with full lineage and auditability.

Hedge funds

Unified data platform for a distressed credit fund

A distressed credit hedge fund wanted a single governed data layer connecting risk, positions and front-office systems, with a security master built for illiquid instruments. EDM+ provides that foundation across front office, back office and market data providers. The security master now sits in a governed, extensible platform, with pricing from Bloomberg, ICE and S&P Markit ingested and normalised automatically. What began as an OMS and PMS evaluation expanded once the firm saw the case for a unified data platform.

Private credit

Fund administration platform for private credit

A private credit fund administrator needed technology to underpin its entire service offering. The platform needed to support lifecycle event modelling for complex credit instruments, term loans, bank debt, revolving facilities, and CLOs, with journal entries and NAV calculation out of the box. EDM+ provides the unified instrument and market data master at the centre of the platform, with a flexible data model that natively handles private credit complexity and supports multi-client data segregation.

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Questions we hear from investment data teams

How are other firms reducing the time spent reconciling data across multiple systems?

By virtualising data from each source system into a single access layer rather than copying it into a central store. Reconciliation rules run across that layer on schedule, with exceptions routed to the right team automatically.

What does a single view of instrument and pricing data look like when it comes from multiple vendors?

Each vendor’s data is ingested and mastered under its own scope, with configurable priority rules determining which source wins for each attribute. The result is one authoritative view resolved on query, not a persisted copy that goes stale.

How do I add a new asset class to my data platform without rebuilding integrations?

FINBOURNE’s data model is extensible by configuration. A new asset class, instrument type, or data source is added through the same API catalogue that serves the existing ones, without development work on the integration layer.

What does investment data need to look like before AI agents can work with it?

Agents need data organised by financial concept (instruments, positions, fund hierarchies, corporate actions), not by database table. FINBOURNE’s financial operating layer provides that, with entitlements enforced and every agent call auditable via MCP.

How are firms giving different teams access to the same data without maintaining separate copies?

Through entitlement-controlled views on a single dataset. Each team sees the data relevant to their function, governed by role-based permissions, without anyone maintaining a separate extract or copy.