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This Week: Finos, Northern Trust, DTCC, and more
A summary of some of the past week's financial technology news.
The perfect climate risk metric does not exist
Buy-side risk survey 2021: Even the keenest searches fail to find a reliable system of climate disclosure.
ESG asset manager taps Symphony, FinTech Studios for thematic ‘mini-Bloomberg’
Sycomore Asset Management is preparing to roll out an expansion of how it uses the vendors’ combined platforms to be able to create and share targeted thematic investment data across its organization.
Former clearing head urges ‘reasonable regulation’ of crypto
Industry participants are complaining that the current regulatory approach is ‘painful’ and doesn’t embrace innovation.
EC ends S&P’s 53-year era as Cusip’s "cash-cow" operator
Sources ID Ice and DTCC as suitors, but new owners may not bring relief to users paying millions.
Refinitiv’s CodeBook targets financial programmers with built-in data access
Since it soft-launched the coding environment last year, Refinitiv has added an item browser to allow coders to look up financial information.
BST Awards 2021: Best use of the Agile methodology—Murex
Product: MX.3
Waters Wrap: CME & Google—the first domino falls
Anthony explores some of the unanswered questions—and potential ripple effects—that come with the new partnership between CME and Google.
People Moves: Rimes, Broadridge, TP Icap, Sifma, and more
A look at some of the key "people moves" from this week, including Justin Brickwood (pictured), who joins Rimes as head of benchmark data services.
BST Awards 2021: Best buy-side pricing/valuation service—Oxane Partners
Product: Independent Valuations Service
BST Awards 2021: Best buy-side CRM platform—Contemi Solutions
Product: CRM System
BST Awards 2021: Best buy-side compliance product—KYC: Know Your Customer (KYC)
Product: Know Your Customer
BST Awards 2021: Best alternative data provider to the buy side—Thinknum Alternative Data
Product: Thinknum Alternative Data
Data-Driven Execution—Looking Back to See Forward
Reviewing favorable outcomes and attempting to replicate them is by no means a new concept across the capital markets. Portfolio managers, execution professionals and risk managers use this principle to drive their decisions, although it is really only…
This Week: Trading Technologies, Goldman Sachs/Digital Asset, SimCorp/Citi and more
A summary of some of the past week’s financial technology news.
Buy one, get one free: Algos learn to multi-task
For years, brokers have offered suites of algorithms, each geared toward a certain strategy and outcome. Now, firms are compressing these into multifaceted algorithms that can switch between different strategies or markets in response to trading…
BST Awards 2021: Best buy-side OMS—JP Morgan Asset Management
Product: Asset Management Portfolio Management OMS (AMPM OMS)
BST Awards 2021: Best buy-side IBOR platform—Matrix IDM, a RIMES company
Product: Matrix IDM
BST Awards 2021: Best integrated middle-office platform—Quantifi
Product: Quantifi
BST Awards 2021: Best buy-side market surveillance tool/platform—SteelEye
Product: Holistic Trade & Communications Surveillance
BST Awards 2021: Best buy-side compliance product—regulatory reporting: SteelEye
Product: Regulatory Reporting
BST Awards 2021: Best integrated front-office platform—BlackRock
Product: Aladdin