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State Street Aims to Bolster ESG Offering with Latest Partnership
State Street is teaming up with Harvard professor George Serafeim to create solutions that help institutional investors find ESG materiality.
Algomi Pivots Offering Away from Honeycomb to Alfa
Usman Khan sits down with WatersTechnology to discuss how the vendor will look to change course in 2019 and focus on the development of the Alfa platform.
Data Issues Still Seen as Higher Investment Priority than AI
Investment spend is largely seen to be going to data management programs before emerging tech initiatives.
Traders Urge Caution on Potential Bitcoin ETFs
Senior industry figures say it may be too soon to create financial products based on cryptocurrencies.
Digital Reasoning Readies Public Release of Model-Training Platform
To solve the old needle-in-a-haystack problem, Digital Reasoning is developing a tool dubbed Cognition to improve the training process for machine-learning models.
IBM Rolls Out Upgrades for Watson Financial Services Portfolio
IBM has enhanced its regtech suite of services, including the integration of Armanta’s platform after the May acquisition.
Young Datasets, Inexperienced Talent Make Alt Data Challenging
The relatively nascent alternative data industry is creating challenges for asset managers, specifically when it comes to a lack of historical data and a lack of talent that can interrogate the data.
Nasdaq Sees Bright Future as Technology Provider
CEO Friedman said exchange's competitive advantage lies in the technology it provides to other markets.
Commissions Slump as Mifid II, Algo Trading Take Bites Out of Brokers
Data shows drop in commission costs as unbundling rules take hold, furthering decline caused by electronic execution.
Flush with Cash, Paxos Plans Precious-Metals Blockchain Launch Next Week
In addition to going live with its blockchain, the trust company has netted an additional $65 million in Series B funding.
The Promise and Peril of Cognitive Compliance Tools
Compliance officers say they are increasingly looking at AI-powered tools to help with things like surveillance, reporting and fraud monitoring.
Quants Say Internal Data will Unlock AI’s Full Potential
At this year's North American Financial Information Summit, industry experts talked about the importance of sourcing and using internal data to find alpha.
QuantConnect Creates Tool to Develop, Share Algorithms
Through the Algorithm Framework, quants can use plug-and-play algorithms from across QuantConnect's user base.
Goldman Sachs Exec: While Valuable, Alternative Data Still Poses Challenges
There is no "golden nugget" of information that will unlock value; the entire workflow is important, according to Goldman Sachs' Javier Rodriguez-Alarcon.
CFTC's Budget Cut Constrains Crypto Oversight, Market Resiliency Activities
A higher budget, on the other hand, could bring in extra staff to monitor clearinghouses and fraud manipulation in crypto markets, says CFTC commissioner Quintenz.
CAT 'Tsar' May be Required to Break Gridlock
Experts say the structure of the decision-making process hinders its speed.
SS&C Flirts with Further Acquisitions after Fidessa
SS&C CEO Bill Stone said that the company is flush with cash after the failed Fidessa bid and will look to use it to continue its acquisition spree.
Banks and Buy Side Find Bringing Fintechs In-House a Major Challenge
The buy-build equation has become more complex with the fintech explosion, as has containing the IT sprawl.
Regnosys to Expand Reach with Bank, Regulatory Implementations
In addition to its work with Isda, the fintech startup also has projects in the works with ING Bank and the FCA.
Deutsche Bank's Joerg Landsch on Creating a Successful Innovation Lab
While speaking at this year’s North American Innovation Summit, Joerg Landsch ran through what he believes makes for a successful innovation lab.
For Systematic Internalizers, Volumes Only Tell Half the Story
Identifying what constitutes true trading activity and addressable liquidity is key to analyzing the success of market reform, experts say.