OmniPhi and Beeks Launch Sovereign AI for Capital Markets

OmniPhi, the Vancouver-based builder of an agentic operating system for markets, has announced a strategic partnership with Beeks Financial Cloud Group plc (AIM: BKS), a specialist cloud computing and connectivity provider focused exclusively on financial markets. The deal includes a strategic minority investment in OmniPhi by Beeks and the launch of Beeks Sovereign AI, described as the first end-to-end agentic AI platform purpose-built for capital markets. The platform runs entirely on infrastructure owned and controlled by the client institution, bringing OmniPhi's Agentic Integrated Trading Environment from self-directed traders to the banks, hedge funds, brokers and exchanges that Beeks already serves. The core message is data sovereignty: rather than sending sensitive data to public AI platforms, Beeks Sovereign AI brings the agents to the data. OmniPhi supplies Phi, its proprietary agentic harness that orchestrates AI agents across research, strategy, risk and execution, while Beeks provides GPU-enabled Beeks Proximity Cloud® infrastructure deployed in colocation or on-premise and managed end to end. The solution addresses a critical regulatory hurdle—data protection and privacy ranked as the largest constraint on AI use in a 2024 Bank of England and FCA survey, and an LSEG survey found 84% of financial services executives have changed cloud strategies due to data privacy, security and sovereignty rules. Gartner forecasts sovereign cloud infrastructure spending will reach $80 billion in 2026, up 35.6% year-over-year.

Pouya Farmand, Co-Founder and President of OmniPhi, said the partnership gives institutions "the most capable agentic AI harness in financial markets, running on exchange-grade infrastructure that never lets their data leave their environment." Gordon McArthur, CEO of Beeks Group, added that financial institutions have been watching the AI revolution from the sidelines because public AI platforms do not meet their data sovereignty and regulatory requirements, and that Beeks Sovereign AI changes that entirely. The platform delivers data sovereignty with open-weight or firm-owned models on dedicated GPUs, fully managed ISO/IEC 27001 certified infrastructure with SOC 2 Type II reporting, research-to-live-trading capabilities where Phi coordinates specialised agents that research, write readable code, backtest and report, integration of Phi inside existing systems such as OMS panels and connections to Bloomberg and Databento, and controls outside the model with named agent identities, entitlement-based permissions, full logging and human approval before any strategy goes live. Beeks' platforms support more than 30 of the world's largest financial institutions, and its Exchange Cloud® runs for eight exchanges. Beeks Sovereign AI will be available for deployment in colocation or on-premise across all asset classes and institution types, with launch set for the third quarter of Beeks' 2027 financial year. Institutions can arrange a demo at omniphi.tech.