Tech
The Red Queen and the Black Death: The Realities of Finding Value in a World of Big Data
At Waters USA, Anthony Scriffignano implored the audience to retool the way they think about data, else risk drowning in a sea of information.
A Look Back at Waters USA: Pragmatic Innovation
Dan DeFrancesco takes a look back at Waters USA.
MarketAxess Adds Asian Bond Trading to Platform
Asian local currency bond trading function designed to boost presence in APAC markets.
Slocum Adopts RiskFirst's PFaroe
Advisory adds software for asset allocation, dynamic de-risking.
Deutsche Bank Debuts AnlageFinder for Maxblue
Robo-advisor AnlageFinder designed to offer automated asset allocations.
Waters USA 2015 C-Level Panel: For Bigger Firms, Time to Make 'Real Bets' as Disintermediation Looms
Senior technologists from the buy side and sell side opened Waters USA with fresh urgency about both cost reduction and disintermediation.
Bank of America's Whitston Describes Benefits of Horizontal Services Model
At Waters USA 2015, Alla Whitston, enterprise CTO for technology infrastructure at Bank of America, explained Persona, a new project that allows the firm to determine what technology should be afforded to its employees in a standardized way.
'True Engineering Work': Stratus Talks Solarflare Partnership
Jason Andersen of Stratus discusses his firm's partnership with Solarflare and future enhancements planned for the firm.
Deutsche Bank Latest to Adopt Bloomberg's FIGI for Syndicated Loans
German giant joins US Bank, Virtus in support of identifier.
Fidessa Turns to Hanweck Associates for Actionable Equity Options Analytics
Fidessa group has integrated Hanweck Associates’ option analytics service, VoleraFeed, into its trading platform.
Waters Weekly Wrap: November 30-December 4
Each Friday, Waters editors and journalists pull together a quick-hit series of the best analysis pieces, features, and video interviews from across the five brands-just in case you missed them.
trueEX Separates Post-Trade Business from SEF
truePTS is a new entity that will focus on allocations, instant status notification and other processing capabilities.
OMG Adopts FIGI Standard
Object Management Group (OMG) has officially adopted Bloomberg's Financial Instrument Global Identifier (FIGI) Standard to unify financial instrument identifiers.
BNP Paribas Securities Taps SimCorp for Accounting Management
Securities services arm of BNP Paribas deploys Dimension platform across accounting activities.
TR Veteran Mazzone Moves to Trunomi
She joins as managing director.
Business, Technology a Smart Marriage at Innovation Centers
Dan looks at the wave of innovation labs popping up across the industry and points to one example as a great combination of technology and business.
Asia Bursts Ahead, Yet AMs Lag Behind
New numbers say we should pump the breaks.
Misys Launches Trading Platform FusionCapital in Cloud
FusionCapilta's move to the cloud is designed to provide greater flexibility and scalability across asset classes.
Scotiabank Names Former CEO of BBVA Bancomer a Strategic Advisor for Global Digital Banking
Ignacio ‘Nacho' Deschamps talks with Dan DeFrancesco about his new role aimed at helping the Canadian bank with its digital transformation.
Keeping It Agile: Aspect Capital's Barney Dalton
CTO of Aspect Capital, Barney Dalton, brought flexible control to both development and infrastructure through agile process implementation.
Cloud as a Business Enabler
The cloud has been around the capital markets for some time, and while it might be the delivery mechanism of choice for all applications and services in the future, the industry is still coming to grips with what’s possible, feasible, cost-effective, and…
Tim Bourgaize Murray: Syndicated Loans: Getting the Dominos Lined Up
After writing a two-part feature this month on the syndicated loans market, Tim Bourgaize Murray reflects on the progress that’s been made, the work still to do, and the massive potential to demonstrate how financial services can fix problems on its own.
Dan DeFrancesco: The Art of the Deadline
Deadlines on regulations in the capital markets are rarely hard and fast. Dan discusses why the back and forth between regulators and firms is so frustrating.
Michael Shashoua: Question Time for Mifid II Opponents
The industry’s likely successful effort to postpone Mifid II’s compliance deadline by a year to January 2018 is only a temporary salve for a lack of effort on straightening out data management, which could have made the lobbying unnecessary, Michael…