Societe Generale
People Moves: Exegy, Luma, Capco, CAIS and more
A look at some of the key "people moves" from this week, including Julian Elliot (pictured), who joins Integral as senior product officer.
Bank of Montreal begins 2nd phase of cloud migration and development strategy
Similar to its competitors, BMO wants the future development of financial services tools to be cloud-native. The bank expects 30% of workflows to be moved to the cloud within three years.
Waters Wrap: Will privacy-enhancing tech for the back office fall flat?
Anthony says that banks should be more concerned with cleaning up the technical debt accumulated in the back office, rather than dumping money into bleeding-edge technologies.
Bank consortium led by SocGen seeks to cure post-trade data ills
Project led by Societe Generale that uses privacy-enhancing technologies to solve data management issues hopes to sign up five banks and launch as a legal entity.
People Moves: Theta, Google, B2C2, Tourmaline, and more
A look at some of the key "people moves" from this week, including Paul Flanagan (pictured), who joins Theta as strategic sales advisor.
A blockchain believer: Broadridge looks to expand its DLT influence
The market infrastructure provider has rolled out its blockchain-based repo transaction platform with plans to further build on the emerging technology.
Banks Rent Ready-Made Algos for FX Trading
NatWest, XTX Markets and others are developing new outsourcing models for tech.
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.
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.
Waters Wrap: Banks Increasingly Lean on Vendors for 'Moonshots' (And Office Space Concerns & Symphony's KYC Play)
Anthony says that plenty of innovative projects are currently underway in the capital markets, it's just that banks are relying more heavily on vendors for those moonshots.
Moonshots Shelved: Banks Spend on Home-Working Tech
Senior technologists from UBS, Deutsche Bank, Nomura, SocGen and others discuss where their tech spend is being directed.
SocGen’s Digitized Bond Passes Settlement Test
Banque de France-backed deal pips private consortiums in dummy run for digital currency trades.
Transforming and Optimizing Corporate Actions Processing
This webinar investigates the challenges and opportunities facing capital markets firms when it comes to their corporate actions strategies. Industry experts discuss the technologies they are implementing to automate what is historically a manually…
From East to West—Investing in Europe During the Covid-19 Pandemic
This webinar explores the pain points and opportunities in European market trading, taking a closer look at how high-quality data can empower smarter analytics and trading decisions
Capital Markets Post Covid-19—A Brave New World?
Every capital markets firm—regardless of size, sophistication and level of expertise—has been significantly impacted in one way or another by the Covid-19 pandemic. What started as a health crisis spread quickly to the capital markets, although it’s…
Space Exploration: How Will Banks Handle Unwanted, Costly Real Estate, Post-Covid?
Financial firms spend a lot of money on office space, but what happens to that space if more employees are working from home? Perhaps something of a WeWork for fintechs is the answer.
Covid‑19 and the Cash and Liquidity Management Challenges Facing the Capital Markets
The emergence of Covid-19 and the ensuing global pandemic has had a major impact on the capital markets—especially for banks and their cash and liquidity management practices. Banks need to know whether they have sufficient liquidity on an ongoing basis…
This Week: MEMX; Paxos/Credit Suisse/Instinet; Blue River; CJC/TREP & More
A summary of some of the past week's financial technology news.
Fuzzy Data Stalls ESG Alpha Hunt
Quants searching for ESG signals have reached very different conclusions. Mostly they blame the data.
UBS Taps Machine Learning for KYC
The bank is rolling out a project using machine learning and natural-language processing for KYC and AML activities.
Societe Generale to Offer Clients KYC Service via an API
The French bank plans to make its KYC offering available to external clients by the end of the year as it continues to enhance SG Markets.
Machine Learning Takes Aim at Black-Scholes
Quants are embracing the idea of ‘model-free’ pricing and deep hedging.