By Darwin Palma, Lead Data Engineer at Vizorfin Every time a new AI tool is announced in the fintech space, the same fear resurfaces: “Is this going to replace my operations team?” The short answer is no. But the slightly longer…
By Darwin Palma, Lead Data Engineer at Vizorfin For global fund managers, the cloud is a double-edged sword. It enables seamless data flow across borders, but it also creates a minefield of regulatory requirements around data residency and sovereignty. When a…
By Darwin Palma, Lead Data Engineer at Vizorfin When a fund is small, operational chaos is manageable. The founder knows where the data is. The spreadsheet works. The compliance officer can manually check the numbers. But as a fund grows…
By Darwin Palma, Lead Data Engineer at Vizorfin “Can you show me where this number came from?” That question — asked by a regulator, an auditor, or an internal compliance officer — is the moment where most fund operations teams…
By Darwin Palma, Lead Data Engineer at Vizorfin Every vendor in fund operations claims to be “AI-powered” in 2026. Most of them are using the term loosely. Some are using it dishonestly. As a data engineer who has built AI-enabled…
By Darwin Palma, Lead Data Engineer at Vizorfin Every year, the same pattern plays out inside fund operations teams. January arrives. Someone opens the compliance calendar. The deadlines are scattered across five jurisdictions, three regulators, and dozens of forms. Every…
By Darwin Palma, Lead Data Engineer at Vizorfin Migration projects fail for predictable reasons. Not because the technology is wrong, but because the transition isn’t planned around how the team actually works. I’ve led data migrations in regulated environments. Here’s…
By Darwin Palma, Lead Data Engineer at Vizorfin Let me start with a confession: I’ve built production systems on spreadsheets. I’ve also spent years migrating organizations off them. I understand why spreadsheets persist in fund operations — they’re flexible, familiar,…
By Darwin Palma, Lead Data Engineer – CEO at Vizorfin If you’ve decided to evaluate fund operations software, the next question is harder: what actually matters? Most vendor comparisons focus on feature lists. That’s not how I’d evaluate a platform,…