Data Management
EDM Council Report: CEOs, COOs Take Charge of Data
The association's latest industry survey reveals how the data management agenda is becoming more visible—and important—to firms' COOs and CEOs, rather than being seen as a technology issue.
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.
Coronavirus Crisis Highlights Need for More Informed Risk Calculations
Calculating risk sensitivities—the main point of FRTB—took on new importance as the markets dropped amid the Covid-19 global pandemic.
Aegon Asset Management Partners with ACA Compliance for Surveillance
The firm is using ACA's Decryptex to identify fraudulent trading behavior.
MEMX Goes with Nasdaq for Market Surveillance
The Members Exchange plans to be live with the platform by its launch date of July 24, despite market volatility.
This Week: Nasdaq, Trading Technologies/Nodal, Finantix, GLMX/UnaVista
A summary of some of the past week’s financial technology news.
TISA Selects Atos for Mifid II Reporting Utility
The technical solution will be built on blockchain with the first iteration slated for Q3 roll-out.
APIs a ‘Game Changer’ for Third-Party Oversight – BNY Mellon EMEA Commercial Lead
As UK regulators look to strengthen operational resilience rules, one solution could be to use APIs to access vendor data.
Data ‘Disconnect’: New ML Tools Stuck Solving Old Data Problems
Experts advise using machine learning to solve data quality challenges before applying it to alpha-generating strategies.
Solace Preps Event Portal for Launch
The event-driven application tool will help firms discover, create, share, and manage events.
Alt Data Lends a Different Light to Coronavirus Impact
Smog, traffic data—even movie rentals—help analysts track economic effects of the virus.
This Week: Refinitiv/Scivantage; Goldman Sachs/ICE; ChartIQ; Aquis/NEX & More
A summary of the past week's financial technology news.
Women in Technology & Data Awards 2020: All the winners and why they won
The 28 category winners from this year's Women in Technology and Data Awards were announced on the afternoon of March 6 at a sit-down lunch in London.
S&P Global Platts Taps Kensho's AI to Solve Commodities' Big Data Woes
Following initiatives with S&P Global Market Intelligence, Kensho Technologies is tackling new projects for sibling department S&P Global Platts.
IHS Markit Builds Out Alt Data Library for Research Signals
The data service provider is widening its coverage of alt datasets for signals in cyber risk and controversy data.
TREP’s ‘Eye of the Tiger’ Moment
Refinitiv is giving the platform a facelift to keep it attractive in the face of younger competition.
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…
Thinknum Seeks to Grow Alt Data ‘Community’
The vendor has created a group with about 1,000 members. Its next live meeting will be March 10.
This Week: BNY Mellon; Amazon/Digital Asset; TP ICAP; Hazeltree; SimCorp & More
A summary of some of the past week's financial technology news.
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.
BondCliQ 9 Dealers Away From Operating Full-Scale SIP for Bonds
Tier-1 corporate bond dealers are still holding out from contributing their quote and pricing data to the two-year-old platform.
Ion’s Broadway Deal Leaves Banks in a Bind
Barclays and Nomura among banks that had moved from Ion to rival it now controls.
FactSet Eyes Real Estate as Next Sector of Focus
The vendor is looking to expand its real-estate offering, which could include a future acquisition or alliance.