Articles by Josephine Gallagher
This Week: MEMX, IUAM/SS&C, Northern Trust, EBS and BME
A summary of some of the past week’s financial technology news.
MarketAxess Acquires Deutsche Börse Regulatory Reporting Estate
The market operator will acquire the exchange’s entire log of client contracts and obligations.
Asset Managers Strive to Differentiate ESG Strategies
PanAgora and Manulife have incorporated alternative datasets and internal industry handbooks, respectively, into their ESG strategies.
SocGen Builds Serverless-Code Environment, Explores Virtualized Computing
The Paris-based bank has developed a coding environment to help democratize tech development, and is exploring virtualization.
Digital Rights Project for Data Usage Faces Legal, Operational Hurdles
Keen to trim the resources they expend on interpreting licenses, investment firms are exploring how they can turn data agreements into machine-readable code. Doing so is fraught with challenges.
How Schroders is Bypassing the Noise in News Sentiment to Identify Credit Risk
The UK asset manager is using Owlin's media analytics platform to identify negative news sentiment linked to credit risk.
European Commission Picks FactSet for Risk Data
The EU authority is buying three datasets from the vendor, which it will use to track supply chain risk in the single market.
Clearwater Analytics to Roll Out New Performance, Risk Modules for Flagship Platform
The modules, which use machine learning to derive predictive insights, are scheduled to go live in Q1 2021.
UBS Evidence Lab Uses Hospital Data to Profile Regional Recoveries
The unit is combining foot-traffic data and proprietary datasets derived from hospitals to develop a better understanding of outbreaks and predict a timeline for recovery.
OneMarketData Advances on Cloud Migration and Extends Asset Class Coverage
The vendor will roll out new coverage across OTC derivatives, fixed income, and FX in the third and fourth quarters.
This Week: Isda, Refinitiv, NICE Actimize, OpenFin, Gresham, Genesis & More
A summary of some of the past week’s financial technology news.
Vaccine Tracking Data—The Next Big Alt Dataset
Investment firms and vendors are searching for signals in healthcare and pharmaceutical data in a bid to get a leg up on a Covid-19 vaccine.
Lazard Asset Management Implements ESG Mapping Tool
The investment manager has developed frameworks to better understand how ESG issues impact individual company performance and sectors.
SteelEye to Hire CME Reg Reporting Talent
While many firms have enforced hiring freezes during the pandemic, the regulatory reporting vendor has plans to aggressively grow its staff count.
Lazard Asset Management Revamps Data Model to Reflect Covid-19 Reality
The firm developed a short-term data strategy to avoid the use of unreliable data and better understand the effects of the pandemic on the market as it evolves.
CME Reg Reporting Competitors Vie to Fill the Void Ahead of Withdrawal
With over five months to go until CME unwinds its regulatory reporting businesses, competing firms are pushing to fill the service gaps and grab a slice of the market share.
CME’s Reg Reporting Rollback: A Sign of What’s to Come
Sources say the exchange group’s scaleback is a result of pricing wars, unsustainable business models, and the realities of commercially supporting a regulatory reporting business.
Deutsche Börse to Exit Regulatory Reporting Business
Sources say a pricing war and cost pressures are causing service providers to reconsider their regulatory reporting businesses.