Data Management
The New Oil Rush: An Examination of the Alternative Data Market
Banks are looking to cash in on the alternative data boom, but an in-depth investigation of the alternative data market shows that they may be in for an uphill battle to claim territory.
Cusip Options Adds North American Futures
Cusip Global Services brings North American exchanges' futures into numbering system.
Kaizen Launches Regulatory Reporting Training
The course focuses on Mifid II regulatory reporting and breaks down reference data rules that remain roadblocks for firms.
DTCC Launches Data Product for US Equities
Equity Kinetics provides an overview of the US equities market for buy-side and sell-side trading and investment decision support operations.
LexisNexis Enhances Digital Identity Offering for KYC
After buying ThreatMetrix at the beginning of the year, LexisNexis explains the need for digital and physical identity oversight for KYC.
Credit Benchmark Adds Ex-Goldman Vice Chair to Board
The appointment follows a funding round that also involved Index Ventures, Balderton Capital, and Communitas Capital, in addition to individual investors like Sherwood.
Post-IPO, Identitii Hires Execs to Drive Growth in Asia
Between them, Garvie and Rhodes have more than 45 years of experience in financial technology product management and marketing.
CryptoCompare Taxonomy Maps Crypto Universe
Crypto map and analysis is a step toward regulating and legitimizing virtual currencies.
Semantics’ Seminal Moment
Data experts testify that right now, the financial services industry is uniquely positioned for semantics breakthroughs that will revolutionize the way data is managed, leading to unprecedented payoffs.
Avelacom Debuts South Africa Network, PoP for JSE Access
The new network and local PoP will provide trading firms in the UK and US with low-latency access to data and trading services at the JSE.
ANNA Takes on Benchmark Challenges
The ANNA Benchmark Task Force aims to collaborate with benchmark administrators for clarity of regulatory and ISIN requirements.
Alt Data’s Ethical Day of Reckoning
With the alternative data industry projected to be worth over $350 million by 2020, it's time to consider whether financial services is on the brink of its own Cambridge Analytica moment or if it is simply time for an alt data ethics evaluation.
Evolve or Die: Asset Managers Cultivate Data Science Teams
Firms are using machine learning and natural-language processing tools—no longer to grab an edge, but merely to remain competitive.
Appsbroker Fintech Angles To Undercut Legacy Data Providers
In partnership with Google, Appsbroker Fintech launches lower-cost market data platform.
Orbital Insight Expands Telemetry Footprint, Considers New Delivery Service
As the startup expands the number of retailers it tracks and adds geolocation data to its offering, it will eventually deploy a PaaS model for do-it-yourself geospatial analytics.
Nasdaq, User Groups Fire Opening Salvoes in Looming Battle Over SIP Data Fees
As the SEC prepares to host a two-day event to tackle market data access and fee issues, industry user groups and Nasdaq have laid out their positions on SIP reform. Max Bowie reports.
Wavelength Podcast Episode 141: Brexit and Blockchain and Data, Oh My
It’s a trio of problems: Mifid II’s data problem; blockchain projects stalled; and data quality issues for machine learning.
JPX Mulls Pooling Content into Data Lakes
Ryusuke Yokoyama, CIO at JPX sits down with Wei-Shen Wong to discuss how the exchange is considering its options when it comes to data management.
ISN Taps Industry Vets Iati, Bruno
The pair will build on ISN's existing team of senior industry executives and expand its expertise and contacts base.
French Regulator Says Mifid II Data Quality 'Difficult'
AMF chairman Robert Ophèle says data quality and completeness pose problems for regulatory evaluations of Mifid II transparency requirements, and that regulators will review frameworks following Brexit.
Exegy Promotes Anderson, Hires Faulkner to Bolster Sales
Exegy officials say the new roles will help the vendor meet the needs of "a rapidly evolving" marketplace.
For Buy Side, ESG, Alt Data Are Necessary Cost to ‘Recapture Alpha’
Alternative and ESG datasets hold the promise of delivering better and more predictable returns for investors, but are some firms underestimating the amount of work required to integrate these into their strategies?
HSBC Expands Content, Reach of Research App on Symphony
The bank says its research app is already one of the most popular on Symphony's messaging platform.