BST Awards 2025: Best buy-side managed data service—Fusion by J.P. Morgan

Overview

Fusion by J.P. Morgan is a cloud-native data platform designed to provide data management, analytics and reporting functionality to institutional investors. The platform integrates data into a unified model with consistent and normalized data, ensuring scalability, cost efficiency and timely insights for users. It is powered by knowledge graphs, semantic data models and AI-based algorithms. Fusion allows users to build a strong data foundation, allowing them to accelerate AI/ML implementations.

The solution  

• Data mesh: Investors can retrieve data using Snowflake, Databricks or APIs, with the flexibility to connect to their platforms.
• Containerized data: Fusion allows users to optimize operating models with data that looks and feels the same across all data domains, sources and types.
• Data management suite: Data entitlements, data overrides and tiered data sourcing allow investors to manage their data accurately and efficiently.
• Analytics and reporting: Fusion helps users generate actionable insights and high-quality reporting supported by customizable dashboards built on their behalf.

Secret sauce  

• Backed by J.P. Morgan, Fusion utilizes an extensive network of partner providers, strong ties to the firm’s markets and research franchise, and a managed service with in-house support.
• The platform integrates with J.P. Morgan Securities Services and other fund administrators, enhancing data management and analytics capabilities.
• Fusion is tech stack-agnostic, enabling easy integration. Advanced data models, knowledge graphs and semantic layers prepare data for AI, making the platform innovative and efficient.

Recent milestones

• Private markets: Fusion provides data from multiple sources and transforms them into a single view, allowing clients to analyze their portfolios with interoperable data.
• Risk analytics: Fusion provides a detailed understanding of users’ investment risk via a fully managed solution. J.P. Morgan has collaborated with MSCI to provide a set of risk analytics to analyze, assess market risk, liquidity risk and regulatory compliance, leveraging Fusion’s data management functionality.

Future objectives

Security mastering solution: Fusion offers a new security mastering solution allowing investors to centralize and standardize securities data across their organization. The solution creates a golden source of data to be used across front, middle and back offices, ensuring data consistency, accuracy and accessibility across various systems within financial institutions, facilitating decision-making and regulatory compliance. Fusion supports interoperability and allows clients to easily scale.

Why they won

J.P. Morgan follows up its win in the best ESG data provider category in last year’s BST Awards by winning the best buy-side managed data service provider category in this year’s edition, thanks to its impressive Fusion platform. Much of Fusion’s success is predicated on its ability to allow institutional investors to manage, access and leverage their data with the minimum of fuss. As a cloud-native, fully managed offering, Fusion unifies fragmented data across all domains into a single, normalized model, enabling integration, consistency and scalability. 

Its incorporation of knowledge graphs, semantic data models and AI-driven algorithms deliver timely insights to users and help them to accelerate AI/ML adoption across their various investment processes. The platform’s data mesh architecture and tech stack-agnostic design allow clients to connect via Snowflake, Databricks and APIs, ensuring flexibility without compromising control. Recent innovations such as private markets data unification and MSCI-derived risk analytics demonstrate Fusion’s ability to turn complex, cross-domain data into actionable intelligence that clients can use to drive their decision-making. Backed by J.P. Morgan’s $35 trillion Securities Services business, Fusion provides an interoperable platform designed to transform data management from an operational necessity into a strategic differentiator for its buy-side clients.