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We are releasing the preview of a domain‑native data solution built as a workload in Fabric to power analytics and AI-enabled use-cases for capital markets and hedge fund customers in the finance industry. Financial institutions are moving fast to modernize their analytics stack and accelerate AI adoption, however in capital markets, data complexity remains the single biggest blocker to achieving that goal.
Disparate source systems, inconsistent identifiers, manual reconciliation, and strict regulatory requirements make it difficult to create trusted data assets, let alone safely expose them to AI. This is exactly the problem Capital Markets Datahub on Microsoft Fabric is designed to solve.
The Capital Markets Datahub workload is a third-party solution, built using Fabric Extensibility Toolkit (FET) and Azure AI Foundry integration, delivering reconciled, governed, analytics and AI‑ready financial data directly into a customer’s Lakehouse and Eventhouse.
Why Capital Markets data is uniquely hard to reconcile and why it matters
Capital Markets operate with some of the most complex data in any industry:Hundreds of external and internal data sources such as prime brokers, custodians, market data providers.
- Thousands of portfolios, instruments, and entities, each represented by multiple identifiers across financial systems.
- Continuous lifecycle events such as corporate actions, accruals, net/gross position changes.
- Real‑time expectations where intraday data matters and end‑of‑day data is already stale.
- Strict governance requirements around entitlements, PII, cross‑jurisdiction data residency, and auditability.
What is Capital Markets DataHub workload?
Capital Markets Datahub workload is not another generic warehouse. Instead, it is a financial data product and workload that makes Microsoft Fabric Capital Markets aware by embedding industry‑specific intelligence directly into the data layer.At a high level, Capital Markets Datahub provides:
- 200+ Capital Markets connectors to banks, custodians, prime brokers, administrators, and market data providers
- A single Canonical Capital Markets data model that normalizes instruments, positions, trades and many more.
- Financial Services‑specific entitlements layered on top of Fabric governance
- AI‑ready datasets that Copilot and models can safely consume
How Capital Markets Datahub works on Microsoft Fabric
Capital Markets Datahub workload is built using the Fabric Public REST APIs, tools and client SDKs made available in the Fabric Extensibility Toolkit that allows them to offer a unified and integrated experience to Fabric customers using their workload.The workflow from data preparation, data delivery and data consumption goes through the following steps.
Figure: Schematic diagram of the E2E dataflow from ingestion to publish.
This turns Microsoft Fabric into a platform that now offers a Capital Markets‑ready data and AI data platform. Given financial services is a highly regulated industry the datahub solution also enforces zero trust AI by implementing fine grained security to manage business entitlements so users can see and interact with what they are authorized to see.
As a result, on top of the foundational datasets stored in OneLake, Capital Markets Datahub provides a custom natural language interface called Ask Datahub to its customers allowing users to ask questions such as:
- “Explain today’s exposure changes by strategy and sector.”
- “What is the latest Month- to- Date P&L by asset type?”
- “Summarize risk drivers impacting the portfolio this week.”
How the workload delivers value to customers
With Capital Markets Datahub on Microsoft Fabric, businesses can- Reduce manual data wrangling and reconciliation effort
- Unify portfolio, risk, operations, and investor reporting on a single data foundation
- Accelerate time to value for analytics and AI initiatives
- Improve transparency and auditability for regulators and clients
- Enable AI adoption without compromising data security or governance
Get started
Capital Markets DataHub will be available as a Microsoft Fabric workload in the Fabric Workload Hub, offering Financial Industry customers and partners a path to explore the Capital Markets‑ready data foundation and tools on Microsoft Fabric.To get started, navigate to the Fabric Workload Hub and add Capital Markets DataHub to your tenant.
Check out the demo video to learn about the complete end to end experience and features.
Figure: Schematic diagram of the E2E dataflow from ingestion to publish.
Additional resources
To learn more about the offer refer to the Azure Marketplace.Refer to the Product Documentation for more information.