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Your Investment Book of Record Was Built for a Different Era. Is It Still the Right Fit?  

IBOR Replacement for Hedge Funds: What’s Changed, What to Evaluate, and When to Move

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The Economy Endured One Energy Shock. It Can’t Do It Again.

Can the U.S. economy skirt recession again?

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Before You Scale AI, Fix the Data

Key insights from the “What Does a Strong Data & AI Strategy Look Like for Hedge Funds and Asset Managers in 2026?” breakfast briefing panel discussion

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Mar 30 2026
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From the floor at InvestOps 2026: “Good tools are table stakes…trusted data is the differentiator”

InvestOps attendees described a set of problems that will sound familiar to anyone running investment operations today. Validating data across systems that should agree but don’t. Accessing historical records back to inception for transparency requests and audits. Spending hours on manual cleanup before any downstream work can begin.

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DevOps in capital markets: Trading risk vs software change risk

Are you managing the investment and trading risks of long software development cycles? Beacon’s CEO and Co-Founder Kirat Singh explores common software development approaches, and how DevOps can help you find the right balance between market risk and software risk.

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How Insurers are Maximizing Returns with Mortgage Loan Capital Structures

Insurers have been structuring private mortgage loans into a senior note and a junior note to takes advantage of NAIC requirements.

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From Debate to Implementation – Solvency UK and Solvency II

The Solvency UK and Solvency II regulatory rulebooks are being updated this year with new rules which will further reduce operational efficiency for organizations not leveraging Clearwater.

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Solvency II Reforms Will Free Up Investment Cash

New rules on Solvency II will free up UK insurers cash for future investments. More here.

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The Adoption of T+1 

The SEC recently announced the adoption of a new rule shortening the settlement cycle of securities transactions to one business day (or T+1), effective May 28, 2024. Read this blog to learn more about the adoption of T + 1.

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Accounting Software for Asset Managers

In this blog, we discuss the reasons why asset managers should care about debits and credits. Get a preview of what a best-in-class accounting software solutions looks like for asset managers.

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Building trust in someone else’s computers: 4 essential elements of cloud resilience and reliability

How do you build trust that cloud computing will be reliable and resilient? By assuming that everything breaks. Mika Bostrom explores 4 essential elements of cloud-native platforms and workloads that make them highly tolerant to failure of individual components.

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Legacy System Risk in the Wake of Mass Retirement

The insurance industry is facing a talent crisis driven by mass retirement, as 50 percent of the current insurance workforce prepares to retire by 2028. Read more on legacy system risk in the wake of mass retirement here.

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Analytics without data is useless, so we make it easy to get your data into Beacon

Are you interested in our analytics and risk management capabilities, but concerned about how you would get the necessary data to and from your existing systems?Beacon’s Pawel Potocki takes you on a quick tour of how we make it easy to get your data into our platform.

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Engineering Journal

Peek behind the code at CWAN Engineering. Discover how our team tackles challenges like AI orchestration, auto‑scaling, and zero‑trust.