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People Moves: Acin, NeoXam, BNY Mellon, Northern Trust, and more
A look at some of the key people moves from the past week, including Tracy Clarke (pictured), who joins Acin as non-executive director and strategic consultant.
ThisWeek: Glue42/Deephaven Data Labs, Brown Brothers Harriman, Dash Financial and more
A summary of some of the past week's financial technology news.
One step closer: How exchanges are seeking tighter relationships with clients
Increasingly, exchanges are trying to get closer to their customers, in a bid to better understand how they use market data. This move may come at the expense of data vendors that are being gradually squeezed out of the exchange-client relationship.
People Moves: LiquidityBook, BondIT, Sterling Trading Tech, Old Mission
A look at some of the key people moves from this week, including Sayant Chatterjee (pictured), who has been appointed chief operating officer at LiquidityBook.
This Week: FlexTrade Systems, NeoXam, Eventus Systems, Substantive Research
A summary of some of the past week's financial technology news.
Esma to ink deal for big data capabilities
The regulator is ditching its legacy architecture to cope with massive volumes of reported data and new supervisory responsibilities.
People Moves: Rimes, LCH, LSEG, ACA
A look at some of the key people moves from the past week, including Brad Hunt (pictured), who joins Rimes Technologies as its new CEO.
Waters Wrap: When will Big Tech providers turn sights on the market data space? (And deep learning)
In recent years, the major cloud providers have expanded their service offerings specific to capital markets firms. Some industry observers believe it’s just a matter of time until they get involved in market data M&A activity.
Cyber attacks top threat to US financial system—bank CEOs
Lawmakers have signaled a readiness to act as finance chiefs warn of heightened cyber risks.
This Week: SimCorp/JP Morgan; SGX/TNS; Barclays/MarketAxess and more
A summary of some of the past week's financial technology news.
Inside RBC’s Aiden project: 5 years of deep learning
Aiden, a trading platform launched last year, is the product of five years of experimentation with deep learning by RBC Capital Markets on top of an additional five years of hypothesizing about what best execution would one day require.
Waters Wrap: Market data & consolidation—a never-ending timeline (And rise of the fees)
While last week it was announced that Exegy and Vela are merging, Anthony says that the deal is only a sign of what’s to come in the market data space. He also poses some questions about the LSE raising its Sedol fees.
People Moves: HKEx, LSEG, Esma, Finos, and more
A look at some of the key people moves from the past week, including Nicolas Aguzin (pictured), who joins HKEx as its new CEO.
This Week: IHS Markit; IceExchange/ BondLink; TickSmith/Snowflake
A summary of some of the past week's financial technology news.
People Moves: BNY Mellon, State Street, Citadel Securities and more
A look at some of the key people moves from this week, including Laide Majiyagbe (pictured), who has been appointed head of financing and liquidity at BNY Mellon Markets.
This Week: Bloomberg, Ice, DTCC, & More
A summary of some of the past week's financial technology news.
Quandl goes live with new dataset for measuring dollar value of patents
The data vendor’s product is its first that aims to sort what it believes to be truly innovative companies from the pack.
Asset managers look to raw NGO data for ESG insights
Data from non-profits can be combined with ESG ratings for more bespoke investment insight, investment professionals say.
Financial institutions battle cyber threat info overload
Cyber threat intelligence is crucial for the defense of an organization’s network, but financial firms have to figure out how to make sense of all the data first.
OpenFin outgrows container tech origins with Workspace UI launch
New interface will standardize notifications, user interactions and content presentation.
SEC overstepping authority in NMS plan, Nasdaq claims in court
Nasdaq's counsel argued that the regulator does not have the power to give more votes to non-exchange organizations in the Sips' operating committees.
Symphony suspends Sparc pending registration talks with CFTC
The comms provider may have to register its RFQ workflow and messaging tool as a Sef, or perhaps permanently shut down the business line.
Small alt data providers feel pressure to specialize
GTCOM-US, once a bespoke alt data shop for the buy side, has narrowed its offering to focus on Chinese datasets as the largest alt data players get even bigger.
‘Crypto Dad’ Giancarlo says DLT could have aided in Archegos
The former CFTC chair says managing collateral by using distributed ledger technology would enable the better oversight of risks.