Case Study: Financial Fabric achieves secure, scalable hedge fund data management with Microsoft Azure

Transforming hedge fund management with new business models and data platforms on Azure

Financial Fabric, a provider of data analytics for the hedge fund industry, faced the challenge of offering its clients a highly secure, scalable, and cost-effective data platform. Their clients, investment managers like Rotation Capital, were burdened by stringent regulations, the high cost of manual data handling, and the need for institutional-quality IT infrastructure. To solve this, Financial Fabric built its DataHub service on Microsoft Azure, leveraging its security and data management capabilities.

The solution implemented by Microsoft Azure provided end-to-end security with features like Always Encrypted in Azure SQL Database, ensuring data privacy from ingestion to consumption. This allowed Financial Fabric’s clients to automate workflows, create custom analytics, and make data-driven decisions. The results were significant, with one client, Rotation Capital, becoming fully operational on the secure platform in just four weeks instead of the typical six to eighteen months, enabling efficient scalability and growth with a minimal investment in IT overhead.

Financial Fabric

Paul Stirpe

Chief Technology Officer