Announcement | Modernizing the Trade Lifecycle With Governed Data and AI

Tushar_Parekar — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 11:12:28 GMT

Capital-markets firms are under pressure from growing data volumes, shorter settlement timelines, rising expectations for real-time insight, and AI initiatives moving from pilots into production. The durable advantage is not a model in isolation, it is connecting research, trading, risk, operations, and compliance on reliable, governed data.

In this Q&A, Andrea DeSosa, Global Head of Capital Markets GTM at Databricks, shares a practical approach to modernizing the trade lifecycle around the decisions that matter most.

Key highlights

Start with high-value decisions: Ask where execution cost is diverging from expectations, how a rate or volatility shock could affect exposures, or which workflows have the highest exception and settlement-fail rates. The questions help define the data foundation needed to answer them.
Connect the lifecycle’s critical data: Bring together orders, executions, positions, market and reference data, research, risk outputs, client information, settlement status, collateral, funding, and operational exceptions instead of creating another isolated workflow.
Use AI where governed context matters: AI can help investigate exceptions, analyze execution quality, synthesize research, and surface potential surveillance issues when proprietary data is discoverable, reliable, permissioned, and traceable.
Make auditability part of the architecture: Production workflows need visibility into data quality, entitlements, lineage, model and agent evaluation, decision records, and the investigation of exceptions, not just a model that produces an answer.
Modernize incrementally: Firms do not need to replace every system at once. Start with one measurable workflow, establish reusable governed data and controls, prove the outcome, and expand across the lifecycle.

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