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Is exchange tech ready for 24/7 markets?
Overnight trading is coming to equities markets. Venues and vendors, both new and old, are preparing for it.
ICE’s snowball effect: Intercontinental Exchange keeps leash tight on infrastructure
Voice of the CTO: Stuart Williams talks about why the exchange has been so adamant about “controlling” its infrastructure and technology, and how that helped it manage intense market volatility.
Investing in the invisible, ING plots a tech renaissance
Voice of the CTO: Less than a year in the job, Daniele Tonella delves into ING’s global data platform, gives his thoughts on the future of Agile development, and talks about the importance of “invisible controls” for tech development.
XiNG: Inside Citi’s all-encompassing risk platform
Voice of the CTO: Citi’s chief information officer, Jon Lofthouse, explains how and why the bank has extended its enterprise-wide risk platform so that every trade in any asset class goes through it.
Deutsche Bank delivers AI, client insights with ‘muscle memory’
Voice of the CTO: The German bank is taking finely honed skills and capabilities and deploying them for new and emerging use cases.
Bank of America reduces, reuses, and recycles tech for markets division
Voice of the CTO: When it comes to the old build, buy, or borrow debate, Ashok Krishnan and his team are increasingly leaning into repurposing tech that is tried and true.
CFTC takes red pen to swaps rules, but don’t call it a rollback
Lawyers and ex-regs say agency is fine-tuning and clarifying regulations, not eliminating them.
Project Condor: Inside the data exercise expanding Man Group’s universe
Voice of the CTO: The investment management firm is strategically restructuring its data and trading architecture.
Saugata Saha pilots S&P’s way through data interoperability, AI
Saha, who was named president of S&P Global Market Intelligence last year, details how the company is looking at enterprise data and the success of its early investments in AI.
‘The opaque juggernaut’: Private credit’s data deficiencies become clear
Investor demand to take advantage of the growing private credit markets is rising, despite limited data, trading mechanisms, and a lack of liquidity.
Terry Duffy on CME’s cloud future, takeover targets, and ... candy
CME CEO Terry Duffy explains the relatively narrow strategy that the derivatives exchange has taken under his leadership, especially compared to its peers.
JP Morgan, Eurex push for DLT-driven collateral management
The high-stakes project could be a litmus test for the use of blockchain technology in the capital markets.
To unlock $40T private markets, Hamilton Lane embraced automation
In search of greater transparency and higher quality data, asset managers are taking a tech-first approach to resource gathering in an area that has major data problems.
Regis-TR and the Emir Refit blame game
The reporting overhaul was been marred by problems at repositories, prompting calls to stagger future go-live dates.
From no chance to no brainer: Inside outsourced trading’s buy-side charm offensive
Previously regarded with hesitancy and suspicion by the buy side, four asset managers explain their reasons for embracing outsourced trading.
It’s just semantics: The web standard that could replace the identifiers you love to hate
Data ontologists say that the IRI, a cousin of the humble URL, could put the various wars over identity resolution to bed—for good.
The art of communication: Data pros need better messaging
As the CDO of a tier-one bank puts it, when there’s an imbalance in communication between the data organization and the business (much less other technology heads) “that creates problems.”
Back to basics: Taxonomies, lineage still stifle data efforts
Voice of the CDO: While data professionals are increasingly showing their value when it comes to analytics and AI adoption, their main job is still—crucially—getting a strong data foundation in place. That starts with taxonomies and lineage.
Too ’Berg to fail? What October’s Instant Bloomberg outage means for the industry
The ubiquitous communications platform is vital for traders around the globe, especially in fixed income and exotic derivatives. When it fails, the disruption can be great.
The AI boom proves a boon for chief data officers
Voice of the CDO: As trading firms incorporate AI and large language models into their investment workflows, there’s a growing realization among firms that their data governance structures are riddled with holes. Enter the chief data officer.
Removal of Chevron spells t-r-o-u-b-l-e for the C-A-T
Citadel Securities and the American Securities Association are suing the SEC to limit the Consolidated Audit Trail, and their case may be aided by the removal of a key piece of the agency’s legislative power earlier this year.