BridgeWise acquires new AI tech to pass Singapore’s tightening restrictions

Global fintech firm BridgeWise has acquired Chicago-based Context Analytics, in a move aimed at expanding its artificial intelligence capabilities for regulated financial institutions across Asia Pacific.

BridgeWise, which specialises in AI-powered market intelligence, said the deal will combine its investment analytics platform with Context Analytics’ AI technology to process alternative and unstructured data. According to Bridgewise, Context Analytics’ tools are used by tier-one financial firms, including S&P Global Market Intelligence.

The combined technology will be made available via application programming interfaces (API) to banks, brokers and investment platforms in Asia Pacific, specifically to organisations already working with the company, such as Rakuten Securities and the Japan Stock Exchange.

According to the company, the integration is intended to create a single platform capable of analysing market narratives at scale, while meeting governance and supervisory requirements. Financial institutions would be able to analyse sources such as news reports, earnings transcripts, regulatory filings and social media posts, with the system synthesising the information into structured data feeds, sentiment scores and event-linked context that can be traced back to original source materials.

BridgeWise said the acquisition is part of its effort to offer domain-specific AI tailored to wealth management and regulated decision-making. Unlike general-purpose large language models, the company said its tools are built to operate within compliance frameworks and provide outputs suited for production use in regulated markets. This means that the expanded platform is designed to support audit and supervisory review in jurisdictions where AI governance requirements are tightening, such as Singapore.

“Across Asia-Pacific, financial institutions are under growing pressure to use AI in ways that are transparent, auditable and suitable for regulated markets,” said Dor Eligula, Co-founder and CBO at BridgeWise.

“By bringing Context Analytics’ unstructured data processing into our platform, we are enabling banks and brokers in the region to move beyond generic AI summaries toward intelligence they can trust in production environments. This acquisition strengthens our roadmap in Asia-Pacific by giving institutions a single, compliant system that connects raw financial text and market narratives such as social media chatter to explainable investment insight for advisors and investors.”