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Coming Soon: The Death of Black-Box Models, Technologies
Industry experts discuss how their firms are less inclined to use black box vendor models.
CCAR Stresses Banks' Model Validation, Data Aggregation Capabilities
At a recent event held at The Metropolitan Club in Manhattan, industry experts discussed a range of topics, from modeling validation to analytics to risk technologies.
Reconsidering the Risk Data Environment
A wider data management perspective could be the key to compliance with annual regimens
SEC 15b9-1: Shots Across the Bow
Finra registration could push some options HFTs to the brink.
J&J Hires Exchange Expert Bill Lee
Data veteran and IMD Hall of Famer will help Jordan & Jordan clients with exchange data compliance issues.
NAFIS 2015: Cost Control Remains Key Focus for Consumers
Panel said collaboration with vendors is key to effective cost and change management.
Panel Cites Storage, Prescriptive Analytics as Key Technical Challenges, Opportunities
Panelists highlight evolution of analytics from historical to predictive, and ultimately, prescriptive.
Enthusiasm's Up, But Corporates' Electronification Remains Work in Progress
Industry members discuss the growth of electronic trading of corporate bonds
AFTAs 2014: Best Reporting Initiative—Morgan Stanley
Reporting challenges are on the minds of every head of technology. Regulations vary by region, and firms are struggling to find a way to streamline their reporting operations. Morgan Stanley decided to turn to AxiomSL for a more proactive approach when…
Waters USA 2014: FX Primed to Suffer More Trading Scandals
Panel talks possibility of rogue trader in FX
Waters USA 2014: Exploiting Regulatory Datasets First Demands Talent Development
Panel says firms can wring more value from regulation-mandatated data
Panel: Firms Must Tap Talent to Exploit More Value from Regulatory Datasets
Waters USA panel says firms can wring more value from regulation-mandatated data
Waters USA 2014: Analytics in the Trading Landscape
Analytics technologies are evolving with the trading landscape
Morgan Stanley Plans Data Improvements
Firm Addressing Governance and Quality, Executive Says
Data Boiler Taps Ex-Goldman Exec as CTO
Big Data management and analytics provider Data Boiler Technologies has hired former Goldman Sachs executive Homer Cheng as chief technology officer, based in Irvine, Calif.
Uneven Regulatory Approach Encourages Return to Silo Model
While banks have been implementing centralized, global infrastructure models for years, uncoordinated and varying regulation is forcing a return to silos and regional thinking. This also has the potential to impact the widespread roll-out of cloud…
Sefcon V: Tech's Impact on SEFs Keeps Growing
Sefcon V looks at the impact technology has had on SEFs
APFIC 2014: Big Data in Big Demand, But Still Big Challenge
While specific use cases for Big Data technologies vary across an organization, demand for the capability to consume, process and analyze increasingly large volumes of data is ubiquitous across trading firms' front, middle and back offices, according to…
Goldman-Led Consortium Unveils Symphony Communication Services
In what's seen as an effort to compete with the likes of Bloomberg, Thomson Reuters and Markit, Goldman Sachs and 13 other industry partners have invested in a new company called Symphony Communication Services Holdings, after it acquired Perzo Inc.,…
Top Banks, Hedge Funds Buy Perzo Messaging Platform for $66M
A consortium of 14 major financial firms has acquired Palo Alto, Calif.-based messaging platform provider Perzo and renamed it Symphony with a $66 million investment to provide an open-source, secure and compliant messaging platform for financial…
Markit, Genpact Plan Expansion of KYC Service
Architects of Markit I Genpact KYC Services plan to add an automated interface enabling direct consumption of client profiles starting in early 2015, and expansion to serve more markets
GE Capital Names New CDO
Rob Casper, previously a managing director at Morgan Stanley, has been hired by GE Capital as its chief data officer
Markit Eyes Federated Chat Integration Capabilities
Markit is building out the integration services component of its Collaboration Services initiative, an open messaging network for financial professionals to communicate and share information across any messaging platform.
Attention Getters
Around the Toronto Financial Information Summit this week, talk about how to improve data quality and governance included the possibility that a major market blow-up would be required to hasten such efforts