Articles by Josephine Gallagher
LSEG: Cloud Enables Better Visualization Tools
Advances made in the exchange group's cloud program have filtered down to help improve its data offerings.
This Week: Fidelity Digital Asset, State Street, HSBC, Instinet, INTL FCStone, Quantopian
A summary of some of the past week’s financial technology news.
RBC Capital Markets Seeks Analytics Vendors
The investment bank is looking to partner with companies like Pyramid Analytics for better insight.
UBS Cuts Outsourced Tech Jobs
The investment bank has eliminated thousands of roles and revamped its approach to outsourcing over the last two years.
The Rise of the Algo Wheel
An examination as to how the buy side is embracing algo wheels and where the challenges still remain.
LSEG Building New Algo-Testing Tool
The exchange group is developing new regtech products while looking to move these offerings to the cloud in 2020.
AFME Calls for pan-European Crypto Asset Taxonomy
The industry body has urged EU lawmakers and stakeholders to become leaders in delivering a common regulatory framework for digital assets.
Banks Begin Exploring Homomorphic Encryption Use Cases (Part 2)
Josephine Gallagher explores some of the real-life applications of homomorphic encryption in development and the main roadblocks to its adoption.
NatWest Rolls Out Personalized Trader-Dealer Chat Bot
The digital assistant is built on Symphony’s open-source technology and integrates with existing trader-dealer workflows.
Confluence & StatPro: A Sign of the Buy-Side Times
Confluence has a big job ahead integrating StatPro’s various analytics tools.
Barclays: The Future of Post-Trade is a Common Utility Platform
Financial firms are pushing for a distributed market infrastructure model through efforts like Isda's Common Domain Model and distributed ledger technology.
TISA Assesses Vendors for Mifid II Reporting Solution
The regulatory reporting utility product for fund managers is targeted to go live by mid-2020.
DTCC Explores Gatekeeper Role for DLT Networks
Post-trade company looks to stay ahead of DLT curve with plans to act as CCP for firms trading on permission-based blockchains.
SimCorp to Allow Buy-Side Clients Plug-and-Play Access to Start-Ups
The Danish vendor is looking to partner with fintechs to allow for buy-side firms to benefit from minimal integrations and to reduce contractual barriers.
Tech, Data Concerns Mount as SFTR Deadline Edges Closer
Industry experts voice concerns regarding the drafting of the regulation and the length of time to prepare, particularly as firms are still waiting on guidelines to be published.
Clearstream Head Warns of Limitations of Simple AI
Revamping systems for STP is more useful than robotics applied to limited aspects of operations and workflow.
IBM Wants to Enable AI Model Sharing and Data Privacy
The technology provider is using advanced techniques and encryption to enable institutions to share AI models.
Fannie Mae to Digitize Multi-Family Loan Portfolio with SimCorp Pilot
US mortgage financing enterprise hopes to transition to a new digital system for its multi-family loans mortgage book in 12 to 15 months.
LSEG Faces Culture Shock Implementing its Cloud-First Program
LSEG CIO Ann Neidenbach said London is ‘tapped out’ of cloud DevOps talent.
HKEx Sees LSEG Hopes Crash on the Political Rocks Below
The LSEG has been involved in several failed international mergers over the last two decades, which begs the question: Is a merger even possible?
Bloomberg Advances on Cloud Data Strategy
The global data giant is working with clients to deploy its data services from the three main cloud providers.