Data Management
Brown Brothers Harriman Experiments with Machine Learning
The firm is developing machine learning models internally to optimize the reconciliation process and detect price anomalies.
Bank, Fintech Exec Gonzalez Joins Pico to Lead Americas Sales
Gonzalez has 20 years of experience in technology management and sales at financial firms and technology providers.
West Highland Nabs TR Vet Milner for Sales
MIlner spent more than 20 years at Thomson Reuters, responsible for sales of products and services across its data business.
Greenwich Analytica Taps Ex-Bank IT Exec Cohee to Lead Finance Practice
Cohee highlights cloud, big data and machine learning as disruptive changes forcing innovation at financial firms.
Buy Side, FISD Begin Industry Push for Alt Data Standards
Alternative data holds great promise as a leading indicator of alpha. But in response to firms struggling with the data science aspects of integrating the data, various industry participants are pursuing new initiatives to make it more accessible,…
Zurich Insurance takes AIM at 'Data-as-a-Service'
The insurer is partnering with AIM Software to move data operations to the cloud.
BNY Mellon to Use AI for Faster Document Queries
The bank plans to expand a program that uses machine learning to pull out key terms for contracts.
Bank and Buy-Side Data Specialists Discuss Data Transformation Do’s & Don’ts
This year’s North American Financial Information Summit saw C-level execs from the buy and sell sides come together to talk about data needs.
Human Factor Is Crucial to the Alt Data Gold Rush
While tech advancements are being made, buy-side firms still rely on humans to make sense of alt data.
'Next Act: A Profile of Euronext's Alain Courbebaisse
The last decade has seen Euronext chewed up and spun out following a series of mergers & acquisitions. Once again independent, Courbebaisse is writing the exchange’s IT roadmap.
SFTR Preparations Stifled by Data Availability
While the initial go-live date of SFTR is set for early 2020, data availability and legacy processes remain the leading roadblocks.
Rimes Eyes Custom Solutions with New Client Portal
The vendor is revamping its user experience, which will allow for greater customization.
Not Random, and Not a Forest: Black-Box ML Turns White
Bayesian analysis can replace random forest with a single, powerful tree, writes UBS’s Giuseppe Nuti.
USAM ‘Slices’ Alt Dataset of Sales Pipeline Benchmarks
The suite of data and tools will allow sales organizations and investors to forecast sales activity, and hence company income.
Itiviti Looks to Capitalize on Bloomberg's SSEOMS Exit
Its new CEO says there are 79 roles Itiviti is looking to fill to help fuel the company’s future growth.
Human-Machine Fusion Seen as Key to Cyber Defense
Software and flesh-and-blood humans are both important when it comes to protecting an institution, panelists say.
ICE Creates Daily Credit Risk Monitoring Tool
The company is muscling into Bloomberg’s fixed income data territory with a new bond analytics service.
IHS Markit Debuts Client Onboarding Tool
The Onboarding Accelerator offers a dashboard tool to automate manual client-addition processes.
Open and Shut (Anything But)
It’s a heady time for those developing data standards, but Jamie Hyman says standards leaders need to agree about what “open” means, or they risk getting bogged down in semantics.
How Bloomberg’s Failed FIGI Vote Reveals a Substandard Standards Process
A failed ballot for a Bloomberg-backed identifier reveals the enormous consequences of industry tendencies toward complacency and cost-cutting.
Bond.One Aims to Bring Blockchain to Bond Trading
Bond.One is aiming to introduce distributed-ledger tech to solve issues associated with fragmented fixed-income markets.
OTPP Taps Ord for Enterprise Data
ORd brings more than 25 years in data management and technology engineering to the role overseeing the pension fund's enterprise data operations.
Growing Sanctions Complexity Causes Headaches for Traders
As more sanctions are issued, and become more complicated, firms find greater need for a monitoring service.
Avelacom Sets Up Thai PoP
The provider will be upgrading its APAC infrastructure by opening new routes, particularly to connect with the US.