Asia
Numerix strikes Hundsun deal as China pushes domestic tech
The homegrown tech initiative—‘Xinchuang’—is a new challenge for foreign vendors.
Agentic AI takes center stage, bank tech projects, new funding rounds and more
The Waters Cooler: SEC hack investigation, FCA–Nvidia partnership, LTX BondGPT upgrade, and CDO problems are also in this week’s news round-up.
Aussie super fund overhauls investment platform with BlackRock Aladdin
Aware Super’s Project Odin includes implementations of BlackRock Aladdin, eFront and GoldenSource EDM
Deutsche Bank delivers AI, client insights with ‘muscle memory’
Voice of the CTO: The German bank is taking finely honed skills and capabilities and deploying them for new and emerging use cases.
Waters Wavelength Ep. 313: FIS Global’s Jon Hodges
This week, Jon Hodges, head of trading and asset services for Apac at FIS Global, joins the podcast to talk about how firms in Asia-Pacific approach AI and data.
Tape bids, algorithmic trading, tariffs fallout and more
The Waters Cooler: Bloomberg integrates events data, SimCorp and TSImagine help out asset managers, and Big xyt makes good on its consolidated tape bid in this week’s news roundup.
Stocks are sinking again. Are traders better prepared this time?
The IMD Wrap: The economic indicators aren’t good. But almost two decades after the credit crunch and financial crisis, the data and tools that will allow us to spot potential catastrophes are more accurate and widely available.
A new data analytics studio born from a large asset manager hits the market
Amundi Asset Management’s tech arm is commercializing a tool that has 500 users at the buy-side firm.
Inside the company that helped build China’s equity options market
Fintech firm Bachelier Technology on the challenges of creating a trading platform for China’s unique OTC derivatives market.
Experts say HKEX’s plan for T+1 in 2025 is ‘sensible’
The exchange will continue providing core post-trade processing through CCASS but will engage with market participants on the service’s future as HKEX rolls out new OCP features.
DLT and digital contracts for market data: Has the hammer found the nail?
Waters Wrap: A new platform that a custom-made DLT underpins is coming to market. Anthony examines its merits and, surprisingly, finds a lot.
Market data woes, new and improved partnerships, acquisitions, and more
The Waters Cooler: BNY and OpenAI hold hands, FactSet partners with Interop.io, and trading technology gets more complicated in this week’s news round-up.
Asset manager Fortlake turns to AI data mapping for derivatives reporting
The firm also intends to streamline the data it sends to its administrator and establish a centralized database with the help of Fait Solutions.
For AI’s magic hammer, every problem becomes a nail
A survey by Risk.net finds that banks are embracing a twin-track approach to AI in the front office: productivity tools today; transformation tomorrow.
FactSet-LiquidityBook: The buy-side OMS space continues to shrink
Waters Wrap: Anthony spoke with buy-side firms and industry experts to get a feel for how the market is reacting to this latest tie-up.
Agentic AI and big questions for the technologists
Waters Wrap: Much the same way that GenAI dominated tech discussions over the last two years, the road ahead will feature a lot of agentic AI talk—and CIOs and CTOs better be prepared.
Bloomberg AIM: Consistently unique in an ever‑changing market
Bloomberg won the Best order management system (OMS) provider category in the 2024 WatersTechnology Asia Awards.
Asia Awards 2024 winner’s interview: Bloomberg
Bloomberg's Manju Sakhrani discusses the company's win for its Bloomberg AIM OMS.
People Moves: State Street, Broadridge, Tradeweb and more
A look at the past month’s people moves in the capital markets technology and data space.
The Waters Cooler: ’Tis the Season!
Everyone is burned out and tired and wants to just chillax in the warm watching some Securities and Exchange Commission videos on YouTube. No? Just me?
Band-aids vs build-outs: Best practices for exchange software migrations
Heetesh Rawal writes that legacy exchange systems are under pressure to scale to support new asset classes and greater volumes, leaving exchange operators with a stark choice: patch up outdated systems and hope for the best or embark on risky but…