Emerging Technologies
People Moves: Google, Sustainalytics, IHS Markit, SteelEye, FeedStock
A look at some of the key people moves from this week, including Derek White (pictured), who has been appointed vice president of global financial services at Google.
This Week: CME, Katana/IHS Markit, S&P, SmartStream, Causality Link & More
A summary of some of the past week’s technology news
ASX Presses Forward with DataSphere Buildout
The initiative's aim is to capture more of the exchange's internal data to commercialize that useful information for the investment community.
Morgan Stanley and EPAM Systems Contribute to Finos Open Source Movement
Morgan's Morphir offering is a transparency and efficiency tool for both users and developers; EPAM's GLUE is aimed at the buy side.
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.
Isda 'Create' Marks Important First Step Toward Smart Contracts
WatersTechnology goes inside Isda Create to see how the organization is aiming to bridge the gap between the worlds of paper contracts and legal data.
Xenomorph Building New Module To Reduce Duplicated Data Requests
The new module will be aimed at anyone who is charged for data from external vendors and needs to track data consumption across their organization.
Trust Issues: As Zero-Trust Architectures Mature, Bank Infrastructures Face 'Growing Pains'
Coronavirus has heightened the need for IT and data security, exposing areas for potential improvement. One option is to lock down sensitive areas using a practice called Zero-Trust Architecture, which offers a host of benefits, but brings with it some…
Does Your Board Have Zero Trust?
Financial firms’ boards are increasingly taking a more hands-on role towards IT security—thus driving adoption of important new security measures for their firms and the industry as a whole.
People Moves: Northern Trust, Solve Advisors, Alerian, Bedford Row Capital, Aite Group, Gresham Technologies
A look at some of the key "people moves" from this week, including Jane Western (pictured) who has been appointed chief operating officer (COO) at Northern Trust.
This Week: IHS Markit, SGX/HSBC, LedgerX, TNS, TraditionData and more
A summary of some of the past week's financial technology news.
Dealers Vie with IHS Markit to Electronify Bond Issuance
Competing platforms could split the market for new issuance in Europe and the US.
LiquidityBook to Roll Out Trade-Matching Engine
The vendor also has plans to expand further into the institutional space with two additional rollouts in 2021.
Refinitiv Labs Leverages NLP to Track Covid-19 Company News
The company's news tracker, available on the Macro Vitals app, uses language models to classify reports on specific companies.
People Moves: BNP Paribas, CIA Omnigage, Capco, IHS Markit, EOSE Data
A look at some of the key "people moves" from this week, including Sarah Wang (pictured), who has been appointed head of structuring Americas at BNP Paribas.
Waters Wrap: Snowflake Makes its Move (And Ref Data Headaches & Data-Sourcing-as-a-Service)
Anthony explores how Snowflake is trying to win over business in the cap markets, talks about the reference data space, and examines a new breed of data vendors.
Wavelength Podcast Ep. 210: What Was This Episode Even About?
This week, Tony and Shen just chat about random stuff. Tech talk will return in September.
This Week: SGX/Cassini, UBS/GitLab, QuantConnect & Snowflake
A look at some of the past week's financial technology news.
EOSE Preps Bespoke Data Sourcing Service for Financial Firms
The move is in response to inbound demand from firms seeking hard-to-find datasets.
Barclays Proposes New Taxonomy for Digital Tokens
The UK bank argues that a common approach to classifying tokens is needed to prevent regulatory arbitrage.
Snowflake Looks to Tackle Data Problems of Asset Managers, Exchanges
Snowflake is already working with the New York Stock Exchange on how to make its data easier to access for the pair’s overlapping clients.
BNP Paribas AM Combines NLP, ML for Sentiment Indicators in News Data
The asset manager is teaming with a vendor on the project, which will first be used for equities trading before moving to corporate bonds.
People Moves: HKEX, TMX Group, ICE, TP ICAP, and Financial Information Forum (FIF)
A look at some of the key 'people moves' from this past week, including Brian Lee (pictured) who has been appointed group head of tech risk at HKEx.
Waters Wrap: Unintended Consequences & AI Regulation (And Mobile Trading Reg & BERT NLP)
Due to the pandemic and rapid advancements in the fields of AI and mobile technology, regulators in the US and Europe have unique challenges on their hands.