OmniPhi has announced a strategic partnership with Beeks Financial Cloud Group plc (AIM: BKS), which includes a strategic minority investment in OmniPhi by Beeks. Together the companies are launching Beeks Sovereign AI, 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, taking OmniPhi's Agentic Integrated Trading Environment from self-directed traders to the banks, hedge funds, brokers and exchanges that Beeks already serves.
The announcement matters because capital markets firms want AI agents working on their data but most cannot send that data out to get them. On public AI platforms, every prompt and line of code is processed in the provider's cloud, and for a regulated institution that data is the business. In the Bank of England and Financial Conduct Authority's 2024 survey of UK financial firms, data protection and privacy ranked as the single largest regulatory constraint on AI use. An LSEG survey of 453 financial services executives found that 84% have already changed their cloud strategies because of data privacy, security and sovereignty rules, and Gartner forecasts worldwide spending on sovereign cloud infrastructure will reach $80 billion in 2026, up 35.6% in a year.
Beeks Sovereign AI brings the agents to the data instead of sending the data to the agents. OmniPhi supplies Phi, its proprietary agentic harness and the intelligence layer that orchestrates AI agents across research, strategy, risk and execution. Beeks supplies GPU-enabled Beeks Proximity Cloud® infrastructure, deployed in colocation or directly on a customer's own site and managed end to end. The platform delivers data sovereignty, with prompts, code and data staying inside the firm's own environment and open-weight models or the firm's own models running on dedicated GPUs. Beeks handles the hardware, networking, operating systems, patching and monitoring, with infrastructure that is ISO/IEC 27001 certified and a SOC 2 Type II report for Proximity Cloud.
Phi, the master agent, coordinates teams of specialised agents that research, write readable code, backtest and report. Quant teams deploy the strategies that pass to trade live through their own brokers and order systems. Firms can add Phi's agents to the tools they already run, from an OMS panel where traders ask questions to in-house applications, connected to sources such as Bloomberg and Databento. Every agent has a named identity and works within a specific person's entitlements, every action is logged, and no strategy goes live until a person approves it.
"Financial institutions have been watching the AI revolution from the sidelines, not because they don't want to participate, but because public AI platforms simply do not meet their data sovereignty and regulatory requirements," said Gordon McArthur, Chief Executive Officer of Beeks Group. "Beeks Sovereign AI changes that entirely." 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.
The partnership carries the same principle that defines OmniPhi for individual traders: the user sets the mandate, and Phi acts only inside it. For institutions, that mandate now extends to where the data lives. 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 with the OmniPhi and Beeks teams at omniphi.tech.
