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Waters Wavelength Podcast: Episode 241 (Big Tech and the capital markets)
Wei-Shen and Tony explore the idea of big tech companies disrupting the traditional Wall Street vendors.
This Week: CME/IHS Markit, Bloomberg, OpenExchange, Equinix, and more
A summary of some of the past week’s financial technology news.
A tale of two titans: Microsoft vs. Bloomberg
Bloomberg has fended off rivals to its business for years but Jo believes a more credible threat may be emerging.
People Moves: FactSet, AFMA, Finos, Tradeweb and more
A look at some of the key "people moves" from this week, including Linda Huber (pictured), who joins FactSet as chief financial officer.
Six corporate actions prototype aims to slash data delivery time
If the prototype is put into production, delivery of corporate actions data for dividends could be reduced from up to 24 hours to 15 to 30 minutes.
Waters Wrap: Cloud, AI, Interop: The evolutions driving fixed-income progress
Anthony believes these advancements will provide the opening for Big Tech firms to created outsized influence that will change financial technology forever.
Waters Rankings 2021: Best reconciliation management provider—SmartStream
Product: TLM Reconciliations
Two Sigma building quant tools to hunt real estate bargains
The information-rich market offers “trillions of dollars of opportunity”, says the firm’s data chief.
FactSet, Microsoft collaborate on voice-activated analytics
The data vendor has deployed machine learning across its ETF and fund screening datasets, and plans to interoperate with other big tech firms in the future.
Waters Rankings 2021: Best buy-side order management system (OMS) provider—Charles River Development
Product: Order and Execution Management System
Waters Rankings 2021: Best reporting system provider—Vermeg
Product: AgileREPORTER
Waters Rankings 2021: Best portfolio management system provider—SS&C Eze
Product: Eze Investment Suite
Waters Rankings 2021: Best outsourcing service provider—Acuity Knowledge Partners
Product: Acuity Knowledge Partners
Waters Rankings 2021: Best network provider—BSO
Product: BSO Low Latency Services
Waters Rankings 2021: Best corporate actions solution—SIX
Product: SIX Corporate Actions Data
Waters Rankings 2021: Best alternative data provider—FactSet
Product: FactSet
Waters Rankings 2021: Best cloud application provider—BlueMatrix
Product: BlueMatrix Ecosystem
Waters Rankings 2021 Winner's Interview: Instinet
Victor Anderson chats to Instinet's Hillary Budds about her firm's win in the best crossing network provider category in this year’s Waters Rankings.
Miax preps ‘Virtual Trading Floor’ of data tools to grow investors, market-makers
The options exchange operator hopes to make it easier for participants to translate data into context and insight, and to broaden participation from new market sectors.