Articles by Wei-Shen Wong
AFTAs 2017: Best Trading Infrastructure Provider—Cobalt
Post-trade shared-ledger platform Cobalt wins this year’s best trading infrastructure provider at the AFTAs, knocking off previous winner, Trumid Financial. The win comes down to Cobalt’s private network that leverages distributed-ledger technology (DLT)…
AFTAs 2017: Best Partnership or Alliance—Thomson Reuters and Symphony Communications
The best partnership or alliance category at the 2017 AFTAs goes to Thomson Reuters and Symphony Communications. Through the partnership, Thomson Reuters’ Eikon, the firm’s open financial markets desktop platform, is now integrated within Symphony, the…
AFTAs 2017: Best Middle-Office Initiative—RIMES Technologies
This year RIMES Technologies takes home the award for the best middle-office initiative in the vendor section of the AFTAs, thanks to its work with institutional asset manager Fort Washington Investment Advisors. RIMES’ project with Fort Washington,…
AFTAs 2017: Best Third-Party Technology Vendor IT Team—Axioma
New York-based risk management solutions provider Axioma makes it into the winners’ circle at the 2017 AFTAs, bagging the best third-party technology vendor IT team award. The company has two IT teams—platform development and implementation. These two…
As Mifid II Debuts, Full Compliance Remains Elusive
Market participants say much remains to be done as Europe debuts new rules.
The Best of APAC in 2017
From regulation to AI-driven solutions to quantum computing for the financial industry, Wei-Shen Wong looks back on what made headlines in the region in 2017.
Top Stories of 2017: The Crypto Craze
The pick of Waters' coverage stretching from bitcoin becoming an asset class to exchanges launching futures.
JPMorgan and Barclays Join IBM Q Network
The network will provide organizations access to quantum expertise and resources to help with experiments in a 20-qubit environment.
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2017: Best Buy-Side CRM Platform—Satuit Technologies
Satuit Technologies has done it again. For the second straight year since 2011, Braintree, Mass.-based Satuit clinches this year’s best buy-side customer relationship management (CRM platform) award thanks to its SatuitCRM platform. The provider of CRM,…
Tora Adds AI Tool For TCA
The tool allows firms to better meet strict best-execution requirements under incoming European regulations.
ASX Gives Green Light to Clearing Blockchain
The exchange expects to release the proposed timing for transition for market feedback by the end of March 2018.
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2017: Best Buy-Side Risk Management Initiative Over the Last 12 Months—RiskVal
RiskVal Financial Solutions is on a roll this year, having already bagged a number of awards, including best market risk solution provider and best portfolio management system provider at this year’s Waters Rankings. Now it claims the best buy-side risk…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2017: Best Buy-Side Data Analytics Tool—FactSet
FactSet snags this year’s title for the best data analytics tool for the buy side, thanks to its suite of portfolio analytics. The vendor was also named best data analytics provider at the Inside Market Data/Inside Reference Data Awards held earlier this…
Waters Wavelength Podcast Episode 98: A Focus on Asia, Rolet Out at LSEG, Nasdaq's Bitcoin Futures
Wei-Shen Wong joins the podcast to discuss some of the major trends affecting the APAC marketplace. They also examine Xavier Rolet's leave and Nasdaq's bitcoin futures play.
JPX to Build New Backup Datacenter
JPX will build the new datacenter further away from its main site to avoid potential disruption to both locations simultaneously.
GoldenSource Bows Fully Hosted Data Management Tool for Buy Side
Nexus platform allows firms to free up capacity and focus on revenue-generating activities, says vendor.
APFIC 2017: Testing, Testing… Firms Employ Trial and Error, AI to Identify Data Value for Analytics
Refining and cleaning data may be time-consuming, but is essential to helping financial institutions perform better analysis on data, panelists in Hong Kong said. Wei-Shen Wong reports.
Out with the Old: Australia’s APRA Takes Aim at EFS Data
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority is overhauling its core regulatory reporting requirements, which includes the modernization of the Economic and Financial Statistics data submissions required from Australian banks and various other…
Metamako Gains China Sales Certification Nod
The certification—a requirement for vendors wanting to sell technology into China—is an important step in the low-latency switch vendor’s plans to further its expansion in Asia
Vietnam’s Saigon Securities Taps Horizon for Warrants and Futures Market-Making
The solution will help Saigon Securities build liquidity of its covered warrant products, and allow it to deal with the complexities around T+2 settlement.
Thai Central Bank Opts for SimCorp’s Investment Management Platform
The solution will support both middle- and back-office functions.
Metamako, Velocimetrics Ally for Mifid II-Compliant Data Monitoring
The solution will provide firms with a complete, timestamped audit trail of their activity.
Farringdon to Debut AI-Powered Asset Management
Investment selections will still be overseen by human managers before trades are executed.
Ground Zero: Digital Currencies in Asia
As cryptocurrencies gain interest from investors around the globe, Wei-Shen Wong examines the splintered Asian marketplace to see how regulators are adopting different strategies when it comes to overseeing these complex instruments.