The firms aim to build a more connected and standardised private markets experience.

MSCI and UBS Group AG (UBS), a Switzerland-based global wealth manager, have inked a strategic partnership to work together to further expand the former's artificial intelligence (AI)-powered platform designed to address longstanding industry challenges in private markets, such as fragmented data and limited transparency. UBS will be an early adopter of the expanded platform and will work with MSCI  The collaboration combines MSCI’s capabilities in independent data, analytics