BST Awards 2025: Best integrated middle-office platform—73 Strings

Overview

73 Intelligence is an AI-driven middle-office platform built to service the alternative asset management industry. It is designed to address the inefficiencies and risks of manually intensive, fragmented processes around valuations, portfolio monitoring and data collection. By unifying these functions into a single solution, it fixes the core middle-office challenge―turning unstructured, inconsistent data into reliable, audit-ready intelligence. The result is speed, scale and transparency that together reduce operational burden, while supporting more accurate reporting and decision-making across private capital portfolios.

The solution  

73 Intelligence addresses middle-office inefficiencies by automating manual workflows end-to-end. The firm’s data extraction solution, 73 Extract, ingests and normalizes unstructured data, eliminating error-prone spreadsheets, while its portfolio monitoring solution, 73 Monitor, provides real-time oversight, scenario modeling and stress-testing for dynamic portfolio intelligence. Finally, the firm’s valuation solution, 73 Value, is designed to enable faster, more frequent, and transparent valuations. With built-in audit trails, version control and regulatory-ready reporting, the platform ensures accuracy, transparency and operational efficiency at scale, freeing up middle-office teams to focus on higher value tasks.

Secret sauce  

Unlike point solutions, 73 Intelligence integrates data extraction, monitoring and valuation into a single platform purpose-built to support the trading of alternative assets. Its AI-first architecture continuously improves accuracy and enables predictive analytics, while middle-office teams benefit from actionable insights rather than static reports. By embedding transparency, auditability and scalability into its core, 73 Intelligence sets itself apart as an end-to-end middle-office platform designed to meet the complexity and growth of private markets.

Recent milestones

73 Strings recently:

• Unveiled AI-driven automation enhancements, expanding scenario-based analysis and predictive monitoring for more dynamic middle-office oversight
• Strengthened data integration, supporting broader asset classes and seamless ingestion of diverse third-party data sources
• Upgraded governance and auditability, including enhanced version control, reporting templates and audit-ready trails to meet rising regulatory standards

Future objectives

73 Strings is planning to:

• Expand its use of predictive analytics, delivering scenario-driven insights to anticipate risks and opportunities before they impact portfolios
• Broaden global client delivery, scaling adoption across US, UK, and European large-cap managers through partnerships and client success investments
• Enhance automation coverage, extending data extraction and valuation capabilities across additional asset classes to strengthen middle-office workflows

Why they won

73 Strings makes its way into the BST Awards winners’ circle for the first time across all of WatersTechnology’s awards programs by winning the best integrated middle-office platform in this year’s Buy-Side Technology Awards. The Paris-based fintech provider to the alternative asset management industry wins this category on the back of its strategy helping clients manage data, valuations and portfolio oversight. The firm’s AI-driven platform is specifically designed to unify data extraction, monitoring and valuation in an audit-ready ecosystem, transforming fragmented and manually intensive middle-office processes into automated, transparent and auditable workflows.

Through its three core applications, 73 Extract, 73 Monitor and 73 Value, the platform supports high levels of automation, from ingesting and normalizing unstructured data to supporting real-time portfolio monitoring and delivering transparent and auditable valuations. Its AI-first architecture has the ability to continuously learn from the data it consumes, enhancing accuracy, governance and predictive insights, while built-in audit trails and compliance features help clients comply with their various regulatory obligations. Unlike traditional best-of-breed products, 73 Intelligence integrates the full middle-office lifecycle, providing scalability, transparency and analytical depth. By enabling faster, more judicious and more transparent decision-making, 73 Strings has set a new benchmark for operational excellence across the alternative asset management industry.

73 Strings should be commended on what was an outstanding entry—it was clear, concise and well thought-out. And what better endorsement of its middle-office prowess than praise from Blackstone, the industry’s largest alternative asset manager with more than $1.2 trillion under management. Félicitations, 73 Strings!