Asset classes
LSEG's Proposed Refinitiv Deal: It's About More Than Just Market Data
What does the bourse’s planned purchase of the data giant mean for clients and the industry going forward?
UBS’s Data Lake for Regulation Pays Dividends
Waters Europe: Data requirements are driving better data for consumption across the bank.
Trade Finance as an Asset Class: Rough Seas Ahead
As global banks seek to promote trade finance as an investable asset class to the buy side, the sector’s lack of technology and data infrastructure have come to light.
Goldman Sachs Exec: Markets Still Too Complex for AI Trading
Humans, and not robots, will still be required for the foreseeable future, say trading vets.
Northern Trust Promotes Burns to Head Funds Services
Industry veteran appointed to lead custody bank's US funds services business.
Nasdaq to Build Deutsche Bank's Single-Dealer Platform
The deal is part of the exchange’s efforts to expand its market technology business.
Cryptocurrency Exchanges Tap Traditional Firms for Market Surveillance
Digital currency exchanges are using established market surveillance services in a move that steps closer to institutional-level infrastructure.
Velocity Ledger Taps Prime Trust for Digital-Asset Custody
Velocity Ledger Financial will also soon launch an issuing-and-settlement platform to tie together different kinds of blockchains.
Trading Technologies Debuts Infrastructure-as-a-Service Offering
Vendor embarks on new strategy with Graystone Asset Management as its first client on the platform.
Crypto Markets Turn Traditional for Tools of the Trade
As interest in cryptocurrency trading refuses to wither, despite a bearish year, traders are increasingly calling for institutional-grade tooling from traditional markets to further develop the asset class.
Industry Lukewarm on ‘Quick Fixes’ to PRIIPs Rules
Many fear performance scenarios will remain misleading and expose providers to mis-selling claims.
Bloomberg Gets Dutch Approval for ARM and APA
Authorization enables Bloomberg to continue servicing its EU27 client base following Brexit.
Tax Data Report: Fast-Forward into a New Era of Tax Data Management
Are you ready for a new era of tax transparency following the introduction of the Packaged Retail and Insurance-Based Investment Products (Priips) and the revised Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (Mifid II) regulations?
Custody Seen as Crypto's Next Major Battleground
Although institutional interest in cryptocurrency trading has grown, the development of the custody space, in particular, is crucial for its next phase of evolution.
STP: Shedding the Leftover Inefficiencies
The age-old problem of achieving straight through processing remains a challenge for some buy-side firms today. But time is running out.
CSDs Consider Entry into Crypto Market
The crypto markets need a body that fulfils the role of depositories adequately, say settlement specialists
DTCC Launches Data Product for US Equities
Equity Kinetics provides an overview of the US equities market for buy-side and sell-side trading and investment decision support operations.
IHS Markit Cancels Derivatives Unit Sale
The information provider will now keep MarkitSERV, despite putting it up for sale earlier this year.
SS&C Unveils Singularity for AI-Enhanced Back Office
New platform will use robotics and machine learning to streamline accounting and reconciliations workflows.
Waters 25: A Look Back on the Last Two Decades
Waters examines some of the most important events in financial technology of the past 25 years.
Illuminated Data: SFTR May Reach Too Far
While waiting for the regulators’ final word on SFTR’s technical specifications, SFT market participants and counterparties are planning their compliance strategies amid concern that the regulation goes too far in its goal to bring shadow banking into…
BBOD, GMEX Launch Hybrid Cryptocurrency Derivatives Platform
Joint venture offers institutional investors the benefits of a high-speed centralized trading platform for cryptocurrency futures contracts.
INTL FCStone Takes Paxos Precious Metals Confirmation Platform
The platform automates trade confirmations, reconciles transactions and aims to minimize operational errors.