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Considerations for selecting a market data-as-a-service provider: End-users weigh in
In late September, WatersTechnology and FactSet held an exclusive, off-the-record roundtable discussion focusing on how capital markets firms can make the business case for subscribing to market data-as-a-service solutions. The discussion featured…
Demand for managed services grows as firms focus on the bottom line
WatersTechnology and SmartStream recently conducted an online survey on the current and future shape of the managed services market across the industry. The research underlines the extent to which the quality of the relationship between capital markets…
Operational resilience and security drive DTCC’s agenda
As capital markets firms continue their digitization drive and look to the cloud for increasingly large swaths of their technology and data needs, they also inadvertently expose themselves to a range of operational risks.
Combined data and analytics offer users the best of both worlds
Firms on both sides of the industry have never had it better when it comes to the variety of datasets available to them, either from individual data vendors or through exchange partnerships (such as the recent Deutsche Börse-CME Group alliance). However,…
Lower cross-border latencies open HFT opportunities
Automated and high-frequency trading in Asia have generally lagged behind US and European markets. But as low-latency data availability increases, that may soon change.
Bank's corporate actions overhaul 'saves hours,' but industry still seeks elusive silver bullet
Although some market participants are trying to automate corporate actions internally, full STP is unattainable without end-to-end buy-in from all participants along the event lifecycle.
Quantifying Portfolio Managers’ Skills for a More Vibrant Active Equities Industry
Cabot Investment Technology, a FactSet company, explains how asset owners are leveraging their metrics to give them an enhanced understanding of their external managers and greater confidence in their allocations
Shaking things up in the dark: Vendors build new tools for dark-pool trading in Asia-Pacific
New conditional order venues could bring more liquidity and sophistication to dark pool trading in the region.
Waters Wavelength Podcast: Tradeweb’s Bruni on electronification of repo markets
Enrico Bruni, managing director and head of Europe and Asia at Tradeweb, joins the podcast to discuss electronification in the repo space.
Rapid Read: Capital Markets Data and Analytics Research Insights
TIBCO's Jon M. Deutsch presents the key findings from a recent data and analytics survey and whitepaper carried out in conjunction with WatersTechnology.
Waters Wavelength Podcast: MayStreet’s Kimmel on the NMS plan
MayStreet chief policy officer Manisha Kimmel joins the podcast to talk about how national markets system data is charged for.
Exchange Trends—The Technology Challenges for Start-Ups
Start-up exchanges are looking at how to offer different types of trading methodologies and contracts to the marketplace. At the same time, decentralized finance and digital assets are shaping the future of all financial exchanges, and there is plenty of…
Realizing data opportunities in the securities industry
Digitized securities markets depend on efficient flows of structured data, but the lack of standardized data models could soon start to impede their growth.
Data-Driven Execution—Looking Back to See Forward
Reviewing favorable outcomes and attempting to replicate them is by no means a new concept across the capital markets. Portfolio managers, execution professionals and risk managers use this principle to drive their decisions, although it is really only…
Solving the Data Challenge—Technical Solutions for Optimization of Risk Management, Capital and Liquidity Resources
Since the financial crisis that began in 2007–08, regulatory pressure on requirements around capital adequacy, liquidity, funding, balance sheet size and leverage has become increasingly intense. As a consequence, financial institutions need to manage…
Competing CTPs won’t work, warn EU firms, calling for single tape provider
As the industry awaits upcoming EC proposals, some firms are voicing concerns that mandating multiple CTPs could create fresh problems around data fragmentation and connectivity costs.
This Week: Bloomberg/Goldman Sachs, Broadridge, Rimes, and more
A summary of some of the past week's financial technology news.
People Moves: Exegy, SEC, Clearwater Analytics, KopenTech, Lightspeed, Databricks
A look at some of the key people moves from this week, including Craig Schachter (pictured), who joins Exegy as chief revenue officer
This Week: Symphony, Nasdaq, Interactive Brokers, Finos, MSCI, and more
A summary of some of the past week’s financial technology news.
Burden of Proof: Meet the IEX breakaways looking to shake up broker algos
Founded with the principles of “transparency and academic rigor,” some say Proof’s model and technical approach is a test case for a new generation of cloud-native broker startups.
A Fireside Chat Part II with Andrew Barnett (RIMES Technologies)
Andrew Barnett chats to Victor Anderson about RIMES' Lean Data Management service, buy-side demand for ESG data, and firms' changing outsourcing preferences.