Emerging Technologies
June 2016: Poignancy and People Power
While it’s important to focus on the technology that drives our industry, it’s similarly important to acknowledge the human aspects.
BST European Summit 2016: Interview with Barclays Wealth's Philip Best
Philip Best, chief risk officer of Barclays Wealth, chats to Victor Anderson about the risk management challenges facing him and his organization.
Collier Joins iMeta In Sales Role
Veteran of financial technology sales most recently worked at Markit
MDW Special: Highlighting the Best Innovation Cities
Where does your city rank?
ECSDA Re-Elects Chairman
Papenfuss to continue as leader of depositories association
Chain Locks in Sohtz as CMO
Sohtz's responsibilities at Chain will include expanding the adoption of the vendor's technologies in broader use cases, including solving business problems for the financial industry.
Moving on Up: BNP Paribas Securities Services' Gallagher Talks Growth Goals, New Regulatory Positioning
The firm is looking to increase its position in custody services from fifth to fourth largest in the world.
Bloomberg Launches Entity Exchange to Help Buy Side Handle KYC, Onboarding Demands
Fortress Investment's David Sharpe says the platform helps to "establish relationships with new trading partners quickly and securely."
Infront Adds Freedom Index Data
Infront will roll out the indexes to more than 12,00 clients, free of charge.
Case Study: HA&W Wealth Management Turns to BasisCode for Compliance
BasisCode Compliance, which launched a self-subscription service this week, is helping HA&W Wealth Management to more efficiently manage its compliance needs.
Barchart Promotes Haraburda to CEO
In his previous role as managing director of sales and business development, Haraburda also ran the vendor's AgriCharts division.
Search for Liquidity Is An Ever-Changing Conundrum for the Buy Side
BST European Summit panel discuss how the buy side is adapting to sourcing liquidity in a changing marketplace.
Markit Hires S&P's Dos Santos as Head of North America Biz Strategy
The pricing veteran will be responsible for Markit's fixed income pricing services business.
CBOE Makes Minority Investment in Eris Exchange, Announces Partnership
CBOE and Eris will develop product solutions aimed at Basell III and other swaps regulations.
FactSet Sells Research Arms to Asset International
FactSet will use the $165 million sale to extend its share repurchase program by $165 million.
OpenFin Names Account Director, Europe COO
Harvey and Ruiz have backgrounds in bank technology operations management and fixed income e-trading.
Clocking the CAT
Firms will need to focus on their clocks when it comes time to start reporting to the CAT.
Nasdaq Readies First ‘Lab-Grown’ Analytics
Though still under wraps, the exchange is preparing to launch five data products developed by the recently created innovation lab unit.
Opening Cross: What Can Financial Information Learn from Formula One?
The intensive data analysis performed during a modern Formula One race has more in common with a trading floor than the "gentlemen racers" of old.
Hall of Fame: CBOE's Tom Knorring, ‘The Mathematician’
Tom Knorring, vice president of business development, CBOE
The Waters Weekly Wrap: May 14-20
A look back at the best content published across all the Waters brands.
Activ Plans to Leverage Prime Analytics to Help Fill Gaps in Data Coverage
Demand from Prime Analytics' global client base for niche regional markets will give Activ the impetus to pursue exchange data that would otherwise be uneconomical to carry.
JPMC's Afshar: Use Data Science for Real Business Problems, Not ‘Fishing Expeditions'
Users seeking to employ data science techniques must be "laser-focused" on the business problems that they need to solve, Afshar told attendees.
WSBA’s Quaranta: Education is Key to Unlocking Blockchain Adoption
Ron Quaranta, chairman of the Wall Street Blockchain Alliance, explains that education is the key to encourage the adoption and roll-out of blockchain and distributed-ledger technology.