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.
James Rundle, WatersTechnology's US editor, and Anthony Malakian, editor at large for WatersTechnology, record a weekly podcast touching on the biggest stories in financial technology.
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This week, Octavio Marenzi, co-founder and CEO of Opimas, joins the podcast to look at how capital markets firms are incorporating web-scrapping tools in their investment processes, and examines some of the key challenges they face. But before that, with the Blackstone-led consortium’s acquisition of Thomson Reuters’ Financial & Risk business closed, Anthony and James talk about what might be ahead for the newly renamed Refinitiv.
2:30-11 A look at Refinitiv.
11:30 In a recent report, Marenzi and his colleague Anna Griem looked at the web data extraction market. He explains why they thought this would be an interesting sector to examine.
13:00 What information are hedge funds, asset managers and others trying to find, and what types of tools are they using?
16:00 One major trend in the space is a move away from building internally and toward spending with third-party companies.
18:00 What are the common causes of these projects going awry?
24:00 Looking at the internet as the ultimate dataset and examining some of the legal implications—including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)—that could hinder the market’s development.
28:00 Who are the vendors in the space?
Read the report: http://www.opimas.com/research/355/detail/
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Anthony Malakian, editor at large: @a_malakian; anthony.malakian@infopro-digital.com
James Rundle, US editor: @JimRundle; james.rundle@infopro-digital.com
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Episode 133: IBM on Quantum Computing
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Episode 136: Blockchain Projects & Some Politics
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