This ex-Infosys executive's firm offers AI to tame the bulls and bears

Akshaya Bhargava's fintech firm Bridgeweave covers 4,500 global stocks and 1,500 ETFs in 15 markets. Its AI algorithms do over 800 mn calculations a day, something impossible for a regular investor

In his earlier avatar, Akshaya Bhargava was the global CEO of wealth and investment management, Barclays Plc, a business with £200 billion in client AUM (assets under management) across 14 countries. Prior to that, he founded InfraHedge, a hedge fund managed account platform that was acquired by State Street Corporation in 2013. He had also been CEO of hedge fund administrator Butterfield Fulcrum, which was acquired by Mitsubishi UFJ, and CEO of Progeon Ltd that was acquired by Infosys and renamed as Infosys BPO.

But Bhargava is now on a mission to democratise access to institutional quality research insights which traditionally