Management & Strategy
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.
Wavelength Podcast Episode 142: AWS Talks Cloud Adoption in the Capital Markets
Also: Trading Technologies is developing an OMS for the sell side and Orbital Insight is embracing a platform-as-a-service model.
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.
Former JP Morgan Risk Pro Joins Trade Informatics
Thomas Jardine's new role at Trade Informatics is managing director and head of data analytics.
Ex-ISE BizDev, Ops Exec Joins Crypto Exchange Gemini
Hightower-Sellitto's hire follows the recent appointments of a general counsel and former NYSE technology exec Robert Cornish as CTO as Gemini beefs up its management experience.
CLSA Diversifies Asset Management Business with AlphaLabs Launch
New venture targets investments in the fintech space, including regtech, artificial intelligence and blockchain companies.
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.
Broadridge Appoints Carey to Head Global Technology
Carey will oversee the vendor's technology business across the globe and report directly to the CEO.
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.
Experts Warn on Data Quality for AI Projects
Speakers at the Buy-Side Technology North American Summit said a single source of quality data is where AI projects should start.
Schroders and Lloyd's Wealth Arms Confirm Joint-Venture Talks
The joint venture is expected to be a tie up between the asset manager and the wealth-management business.
Wavelength Podcast Episode 140: Web Data Extraction & Refinitiv Update
Octavio Marenzi joins to talk about the web data extraction market and Anthony and James delve into Refinitiv.
It Takes a Village to Raise a Machine
As the industry—and society, as a whole—embraces the promise of artificial intelligence, James argues that there is a need to train models on more than just mathematical data.
The End of Privacy
As cybersecurity issues become more daunting, and as vendors collect more of our personal information, Anthony says we will need Congress to take more of an active role in protecting citizens’ information, even as they willingly give it away.
October 2018: Coming Together
Data and technology, once firmly separate, are increasingly becoming the same function, both in the industry and in the pages of Waters.
MDX Ordains Bishop for BizDev
Bishop has more than 30 years of experience in the data sales and information distribution systems market.
Allfunds Sharply Boosts Asia Presence with Key Hires
The vendor’s open architecture model allows it to service new clients in Asia.
The Fast and the Curious: The Latency Barrier for Institutional Crypto Traders
Institutional investors want to enter the crypto space but the lack of infrastructure around guaranteed latency and access to real-time market data is hindering a wider entry into the field. By Emilia David
Building Bridges: Fenergo Taps Clarke to Lead Alliances Team
Clarke says his role will help expand the vendor's reach in "an open and interconnected regulatory landscape."
The New Guard: Ryusuke Yokoyama, JPX
Ryusuke Yokoyama sits down with Wei-Shen Wong to discuss his three-decade career at the TSE and JPX, how the exchange is looking to help the industry improve its settlement cycles and how the company is experimenting with blockchain and AI technologies…
Vela Names Former NYSE, Bank Tech Exec Visconti CTO
Visconti will bring his 28 years of experience in technology, capital markets and exchange roles to help Vela grow its business by overseeing its technology strategy.
BNY Mellon Poaches BAML Vet for CTO Role
BAML sales and trading tech chief jumps ship to custody giant.