OmniPhi has secured a strategic minority investment from Beeks Financial Cloud Group plc and together the companies are launching Beeks Sovereign AI, an end-to-end agentic AI platform purpose-built for capital markets. The platform runs entirely on infrastructure owned and controlled by the client institution, aiming to remove a key obstacle that has kept many regulated firms on the sidelines of the AI revolution.
The announcement matters because capital markets firms want AI agents working on their data, but most cannot send that data to public AI platforms where every prompt and line of code is processed in the provider’s cloud. 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 flips the model by bringing 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 offering is detailed at Beeks Sovereign AI.
“Partnering with Beeks gives institutions the complete picture: the most capable agentic AI harness in financial markets, running on exchange-grade infrastructure that never lets their data leave their environment,” said Pouya Farmand, Co-Founder and President of OmniPhi. “The productivity gains available to institutions that can deploy this properly are significant, and we are excited to be delivering that alongside Beeks.”
Built by capital-markets veteran Farmand and theoretical physicist Ali Mokhtari, PhD, OmniPhi launched its agentic trading platform in July 2026. Beeks Sovereign AI brings that engine inside the institution, delivering data sovereignty, fully managed infrastructure, research-to-live-trading capabilities, integration of Phi’s agents into existing systems, and controls outside the model. 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.”
The partnership extends OmniPhi’s Agentic Integrated Trading Environment from self-directed traders to the banks, hedge funds, brokers and exchanges that Beeks Financial Cloud Group plc already serves. 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.
