Feature/Data Management
Barclays Revamps BARX Platform Using OpenFin
Executives from Barclays discuss why the bank is transforming its BARX trading platform and what that might mean for the future of trading desktops.
Covid-19 Tumult Tests AI Fund Returns
Some machine learning strategies have coped well, but others began to struggle as panic mounted.
Ping An: NLP Takes on Greater Importance in Turbulent Times
The firm's chief scientist discusses how NLP is being used to prevent the spread of the coronavirus and how it can be applied for financial services.
Covid-19 Is Raising the ESG Stakes
Unlike in past financial crises, ESG is taking center stage as social and governance data is directly relevant to all companies weathering the coronavirus pandemic. That makes the holes in that data, which still remain, all the more apparent.
In Expansion Beyond HFT, FPGAs Eye AI
After a decade of supercharging low-latency applications, Wei-Shen Wong explores how FPGAs are pushing into new areas of the capital markets, driven by interest in AI & ML.
Trading Venues Aim to Unlock Value of Green Bonds
Tech providers are looking for ways to increase liquidity in climate bonds, a tiny but fast-growing corner of the fixed-income universe.
Weighing the Benefits: Hardware Vs Software
In the pursuit of new ways to eliminate latency from the market data distribution and trading processes, vendors have invested in hardware-acceleration technologies, such as FPGAs. But with commodity chips now giving specialist hardware a run for its…
Lighting Up the Black Box: A Must for Investors?
Many quants contend that you must be able to interpret machine learning in order to use it.
Alt Data Lends a Different Light to Coronavirus Impact
Smog, traffic data—even movie rentals—help analysts track economic effects of the virus.
Transforming NLP: A Look at New Tools Being Used by Banks
The evolution of natural language processing is rapidly progressing. Jo Wright takes a look at BERT, one of the more game-changing innovations that is helping to transform the field of machine learning in the capital markets.
'Data Mining is Bullsh*t' — An Examination
With the growth of alternative data in the capital markets, firms are struggling to find value, and are disillusioned by the loss of time, human capital, and money. Goldman Sachs’ Matthew Rothman believes this has created a situation where vendors and…
Game On: Can the Video Game Industry Teach Banks Something About Visualization?
Capital markets firms are continually looking for new ways to package and visualize a rising tide of information. It turns out there’s another industry looking to handle the same challenge—the video game industry.
Fuzzy Data Stalls ESG Alpha Hunt
Quants searching for ESG signals have reached very different conclusions. Mostly they blame the data.
LEI on the Edge: What Needs to Happen for Wider Adoption?
The financial industry is losing faith in the LEI initiative as regulatory mandates remain patchy, but some see hope in SFTR’s unique-issuer LEI. By Mariella Reason
TREP’s Tipping Point? An Examination of Refinitiv’s Market Data Platform
Refinitiv—and by extension, TREP—has experienced a fair amount of disruption over the last two years. Competitors are lining up to cut into the platform's market share.
Crédit Ag Taps AI to Lure Swaptions Business
The machine learning model predicts client demand with high accuracy, giving traders an edge in pricing.
BofA’s ‘Citizen Devs’ Take on Innovation Mantle
The bank's central data and technology group enables frontline ‘citizen developers’.
EU Consolidated Tape: Support Wanes With Lack of Answers
With regulators slow to answer industry questions relating to how a CT should be built and what it's for, development has slowed.
Quant Funds Look to AI to Master Correlations
Machine learning shows promise in grouping assets better and predicting regime shifts, say fund managers.
5G & IoT: Are You Ready for the Data Deluge?
The combination of these two revolutions will see data volumes skyrocket. As a result, Anthony Malakian says data providers will be able to find new datasets to package for clients, while investment firms can create unique investment insights.
Banks Look to Virtual Data Warehouses to Unify Trading Desks
As emerging technologies and greater computing power have brought about new analytical tools and capabilities, adding a virtual layer could help take the burden off the traditional data warehouse.
As Public Cloud Gains Traction, Concerns & Challenges Grow
WatersTechnology looks at more than 20 cloud-based projects and initiatives to see how banks, asset managers and vendors are embracing public providers, and the inherent problems involved.
Machine Learning Takes Hold in the Capital Markets: Some Examples
WatersTechnology looks at 16 projects in the capital markets that involve machine learning to show where the industry is heading.
Listen Up: How Tech is Turning Voice into a Valuable Dataset
Voice is arguably one of the most interesting—yet largely untapped—alternative datasets in existence today.