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This Week: Nasdaq/FIA Tech, DTCC, Acadia, and more
A summary of the latest financial technology news.
Leading the charge: Nitin Tandon spearheads Vanguard’s tech ambitions
The asset manager’s CIO is drawing on his past experiences to propel the 49-year-old firm into the future.
Heavy lifting: Why using AI for data extraction is still no easy task
Using AI to extract data from documents and filings should be a no-brainer. But it takes a lot of brains and money to get those processes set up and running reliably and accurately.
Best reference data integration provider—SmartStream Technologies
Product overview—SmartStream Reference Data ServicesSmartStream Reference Data Services (RDS) provides firms with and manages timely and accurate trade and regulatory data, making it easier for them to access and consume for a variety of…
Lightning strikes: Options boom threatens data overload
Concerns over creaking infrastructure in US options markets are fueling talk of measures to limit the exponential amount of data being generated.
The IMD Wrap: The risks of becoming AI-rich and memory-poor
Like Alice in Wonderland, Max disappears down the rabbit hole of AI to discover a world that is sometimes fantasy—and sometimes a nightmare.
All eyes turn to North America as T+1 arrives
As T+1 settlement becomes a reality in North America, long-lingering questions will get their answers.
Firms worry that lack of ‘explainability’ will be regulatory roadblock for AI
Industry experts share their concerns about advanced AI’s ‘black-box’ nature and how that may attract fragmented regulatory scrutiny.
This Week: WFE finds that permissionless DLT increases trading costs; JonesTrading/LiquidityBook & more
WFE finds that permissionless DLTincreases trading costsThe World Federation of Exchanges has published a study that warns that technologies without trusted third-party oversight, such as permissionless distributed ledger technology (DLT) can be…
Best reference data managed service—dxFeed
Product overview—dxFeed Market Data IaaSIn recent years, dxFeed, a subsidiary of Devexperts, has received increasing numbers of requests from firms to handle their data infrastructure in addition to the provision of market data itself…
Waters Wavelength Podcast: Talos’s Samar Sen
Samar Sen, head of Apac at Talos, joins the podcast to talk about the institutional tools in the digital assets space.
Best data analytics provider/vendor—big xyt
Product overview—Liquidity Cockpit and Open TCA suitebig xyt offers the financial services industry a global ecosystem for tick data analytics, covering more than 120 trading venues across equities, exchange-traded funds, foreign exchange and…
Best evaluated pricing service provider/vendor—CanDeal Data & Analytics
Product overview—CanDeal Data & Analytics Reference Pricing ServiceCanDeal Data & Analytics (DNA), a division of Toronto-based CanDeal Group, provides data products and solutions developed in collaboration with a number of Canadian…
Managed services under the spotlight
A series of four short podcasts focusing on managed services across the financial services industry
Best enterprise data management provider/vendor—S&P Global Market Intelligence
Product overview—EDMEDM is S&P Global’s flagship enterprise data management platform. It is used by more than 200 organizations on both sides of the industry to help them optimize their data use and streamline their operations by…
Best corporate actions data initiative—S&P Global Market Intelligence
Product overview—S&P Global Market Intelligence Managed Corporate Actions—Agent Validation ServiceS&P Global’s Managed Corporate Actions—Agent Validation Service (AVS) is a corporate actions data platform designed to validate agent…
Best corporate actions data provider—SIX
Product overview—Global Corporate ActionsSIX’s corporate actions data is globally sourced to support firms’ cash flow management, income distribution and risk management functions. Aggregated from major financial markets, SIX’s data is…
The capital markets’ appetite for AI is evolving ... slowly
Nyela checks the vibe of generative AI, which is slowly evolving from frenetic conversations to tangible tools and use cases.
Waters Wrap: Quants, CDOs, and the blending of job titles
Anthony explains how a quant at a massive bank taking on the CDO title hints at larger industry changes.
Caveat creator: GenAI giants’ pledges won’t pre-empt copyright suits
Tech vendors offer indemnities on generative output, but end-users need to check the fine print, warn IP lawyers
Capital markets firms wary of cloud overspend
Data architects highlight cost concerns as more and more institutions look to use the cloud for data storage and management.
This Week: ION/LuxSE, BNY Mellon, Nasdaq, and more
A summary of the latest financial technology news.
Nasdaq to market new options strike listing tech to other exchanges
The exchange operator is experimenting with emerging technologies to determine which options strike prices belong in a crowded market, with hopes to sell the tech to its peers.
Most innovative market data project—Tradeweb
Product overview—Ai-Price for Municipal Bonds In early April 2022, Tradeweb announced the launch of its Tradeweb Automated Intelligent Price (Ai-Price) service for municipal bonds, which uses proprietary machine learning and data science…