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Wavelength Podcast Ep. 218: David Hardoon on AI's Unforeseen Challenges
David Hardoon was formerly at the Monetary Authority of Singapore and is now helping the UnionBank of the Philippines build out its AI strategy.
Goldman Sachs Takes Aim at Interoperability, Analytics with Marquee Enhancements
The bank’s recent moves signal what could become a managed services offering, as Goldman further embraces cloud, open source, and APIs.
Citi Readies Price-Shock Detection System
Once the bot is in production, the D10X team will start scaling it beyond the oil trading team to other trading desks.
This Week: FactSet/Truvalue Labs, Euronext, Finastra/CloudMargin, DTCC, and More
A summary of some of the past week's financial technology news.
Waters Wrap: The M&A Market Heats Up (And Some Quantum Computing News)
What do Liquidnet and Trading Technologies (and others) have in common? Anthony explains. He also discusses advancement—and disillusionment—in the quantum space.
Banks Rent Ready-Made Algos for FX Trading
NatWest, XTX Markets and others are developing new outsourcing models for tech.
Waters Wrap: 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.
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.
Wavelength Podcast Ep. 213: Data Management in a Post-Covid World
Senior execs from Citizens Bank, Commerzbank, and Deutsche Bank discuss lessons learned during the pandemic.
BNY Mellon Preps Fintech Accelerator Program to ID Key Tech Solutions
The Connect20 hackathon and the Accelerator Program are designed to "industrialize" BNY Mellon's ability to identify early stage companies providing solutions to key technology and business challenges facing the firm.
Data Poisoning: An Emerging Threat for Machine Learning Adoption
Experts from IBM and Bank of China say they're on the lookout for this emerging threat, as machine learning gains in popularity.
Banks Learn from Remote Working to Improve Customer Experience
Banks are focused on making work-from-home life more secure, but how can these projects be used to improve the customer experience going forward?
This Week: Nasdaq, Bloomberg, Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Boerse, BNP Paribas, Wolters Kluwer, and More
A summary of some of the past week's financial technology news.
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.
AxeTrading To Roll Out More Automation for Fixed Income Platform
Vendor integrates open source stream processing software Apache Kafka for real-time event data.
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.
Xenomorph Building New Module To Reduce Duplicated Data Requests
The new module will be aimed at anyone who is charged for data from external vendors and needs to track data consumption across their organization.
HKEx's Data Play Slowly Comes Together
The exchange is currently working on building its enterprise data bus for better internal data management, but Wei-Shen finds that the exchange is still short on long-term answers.
Waters Wrap: Snowflake Makes its Move (And Ref Data Headaches & Data-Sourcing-as-a-Service)
Anthony explores how Snowflake is trying to win over business in the cap markets, talks about the reference data space, and examines a new breed of data vendors.
This Week: SGX/Cassini, UBS/GitLab, QuantConnect & Snowflake
A look at some of the past week's financial technology news.
Tradeweb Bolsters China Bond Market Access with Electronic CIBM Direct Trading Overlay
Officials say the move makes Tradeweb the only platform to offer electronic trading in Chinese bonds via two different channels.