Founded by Bin Ren, who spun out his team from Brevan Howard (one of Europe’s top hedge funds), SigTech started by building advanced analytics for asset managers.
Let’s face it, the financial world runs on complex, high-stakes workflows that are still painfully manual.
From due diligence to deal assessment and regulatory reviews, capital markets depend on people doing the same repetitive, brain-heavy tasks over and over again.
Enter SigTech.
Founded by Bin Ren, who spun out his team from Brevan Howard (one of Europe’s top hedge funds), SigTech started by building advanced analytics for asset managers. Fast forward to today, they’ve evolved into one of the frontier firms redefining what AI means in finance.
Their new obsession? AI agents — intelligent systems built to run entire financial workflows from start to finish. Not copilots that assist, but agents that execute.
Why AI Agents, and Why Now
Every big financial institution faces the same bottlenecks: massive volumes of data, slow deal cycles, and regulatory red tape.
SigTech’s take is refreshingly simple: the next phase of AI isn’t about replacing people; it’s about giving them intelligent agents that can handle the grunt work with precision. From private equity due diligence to commercial loan underwriting, KYC, vendor validation, and even CV screening in HR, SigTech’s agents handle it all.
Each one is tailor-made. Every firm does things differently, and SigTech’s strength lies in customizing agents to fit those nuances.
The result?
Workflows that used to take days now take minutes — consistently, accurately, and securely.
From Finance Experts to AI Builders
What makes SigTech special isn’t just their tech, it’s their DNA. Bin and his team come from capital markets. They understand how the industry operates, what can(and can’t) be automated, and how to bridge the gap between human expertise and large language models.
Now, they’re pushing the boundary even further with a bold vision: “Agents that build agents.”
SigTech is building a platform where clients can feed in expert examples, and the system automatically generates AI agents tuned to that company’s exact workflow.
Think of it as mass-custom AI, tailor-made automation at scale.
Scaling with Microsoft and WeTransact
To build for the world’s most regulated industry, SigTech needed infrastructure and credibility at enterprise level.
That’s where Microsoft Azure comes in.
SigTech migrated 99.9% of their workloads to Azure, tapping into secure, compliant infrastructure and tight integration with Microsoft Teams. Most of their clients already use Teams daily, so deploying SigTech’s agents directly inside Teams made onboarding almost instant.
And that’s not the only edge.
Working with WeTransact, SigTech turned a complex enterprise sales motion into a streamlined go-to-market engine — complete with Azure billing, Marketplace listing, and co-sell alignment with Microsoft’s global sales teams.
“WeTransact takes care of the heavy lifting — billing, incentives, and enabling customers to use their Azure credits on our product. That can be a make-or-break factor in enterprise deals.” - Bin
The Future of Finance Is Agentic
SigTech isn’t just adapting to AI, they’re helping shape its next chapter.
They see a world where institutions don’t just use AI, they run on it. In the next 18 months, SigTech aims to scale its “agent factory,” letting financial institutions design, deploy, and manage AI agents entirely on their own.
And with Microsoft and WeTransact as partners, they’re not just building tools — they’re creating an ecosystem for the agent era in finance.
In Bin’s Words:
“We’re building AI agents for capital markets — and now, we’re building agents that build agents. With Microsoft and WeTransact, we can take this innovation global.”
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