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FISD Reports Progress on Alt Data Standards, Data Dictionary
Officials say FISD's standards efforts will encourage and support broader adoption of alternative data among firms that have previously not had the resources to take advantage of new alt datasets.
Fulcrum AM Looks to Quantify ESG Risk by Honing Hard Numbers
ESG risks will become part of investment and risk management processes across all funds at the firm.
SmartStream Plans to Go 'Cloud Native' with Full Suite of Solutions
After two cloud-native product successes, the vendor plans to migrate all its software to cloud native to optimize the benefits of running in the cloud for clients.
Banks Warn of Rise in Ransomware Attacks
Banks must improve resilience of remote-working staff, says Wells Fargo financial crime expert
Morgan Stanley’s Digital Research Assistant Knows Who You Are
The bank's AI-powered research chatbot, developed with Symphony Communications, acts as a personalized research assistant and will soon be rolled out to external clients.
Science Friction: Some Tire of Waiting for Quantum’s Leap
Use cases for quantum computing are piling up—from CVA to VAR. But so are the obstacles
On Refinitiv and Old Rivalries (And FIGI & Data Governance)
Anthony explores some of the questions raised by Refinitiv's plan to move away from Eikon and Thomson One. He also looks at data governance trends, and asks why the FIGI is having such a tough time gaining acceptance.
Cloud in the Time of Covid: If Not Now, When?
The cloud proved to be a saving grace for financial services firms that moved to agile environments even before Covid-19 hit. But there are still appreciable numbers of firms that continue to rely on—and are hamstrung by—legacy and in-house-deployed…
Manulife Refines ESG Methodology and Plugs Data Gaps with NLP
The asset manager has adopted materiality tools, industry handbooks, and NLP techniques to help navigate ESG data limitations.
RPA Provides ‘Quick Wins’, But at What Cost?
Banking experts urge firms to consider re-engineering a process before turning to robotic process automation.
Bloomberg's FIGI: A Case of Red Light, Green Light
After the route toward accreditation via the ISO petered out, Bloomberg is vying to establish its reference data standard as a system of record in the US, following a win in Brazil.
Milestone Group to Launch Fair-Value Feature to Flagship Platform
The vendor will make the pControl add-on globally available to clients later in 2020.
EU Proposal Takes Aim at Major Cloud Providers
Jo writes that the EU’s new digital package could find large cloud providers operating in the bloc subject to potentially invasive oversight, as the EU strives for “data sovereignty”.
Morgan Stanley, SocGen Shift Sight Line on Who's Accountable for Data
The two banks outline their ambitious data governance programs, which make business professionals culpable for their organization's data decisions.
This Week: MEMX, IUAM/SS&C, Northern Trust, EBS and BME
A summary of some of the past week’s financial technology news.
Banks Struggle to Manage Technical Debt When Dealing with AI, Data Science
Data scientists, IT teams, and the business professionals should work together when deploying emerging technologies and data science models. Otherwise, they may be setting themselves up to fail.
MarketAxess Acquires Deutsche Börse Regulatory Reporting Estate
The market operator will acquire the exchange’s entire log of client contracts and obligations.
Slow Road to Consensus: CFTC's Behnam Talks Climate Risk
As CFTC commissioner Rostin Behnam’s report on climate risk to the financial system is published, WatersTechnology speaks to Behnam about data, greenwashing, and gaining support in Washington.
Low-Code Movement Gains Converts, but Skeptics Remain
What if you could create your ideal, fully-functional application without writing a single line of code? With low-code and no-code platforms, you can—with a catch … or two, or three, or four.
SocGen Builds Serverless-Code Environment, Explores Virtualized Computing
The Paris-based bank has developed a coding environment to help democratize tech development, and is exploring virtualization.
S&P Global Introduces 10 Million Private Company Profiles to Market Intelligence
The new datasets mark a milestone in the company's multi-year strategy to allow investors greater access to small and medium enterprise companies.
Digital Rights Project for Data Usage Faces Legal, Operational Hurdles
Keen to trim the resources they expend on interpreting licenses, investment firms are exploring how they can turn data agreements into machine-readable code. Doing so is fraught with challenges.
Bank Execs: Covid’s Tech Challenges Handed ‘Big Wins’ to Automation, AI
Emerging tech is proving its worth since the Covid-19 outbreak, and are swaying skeptics towards even greater adoption, panelists said.
ASX Presses Forward with DataSphere Buildout
The initiative's aim is to capture more of the exchange's internal data to commercialize that useful information for the investment community.