Artificial intelligence (AI)
The future of algo trading: Using deep learning to more accurately predict equity market volumes
OpEd by Sam Clapp, Mizuho Americas equities, and Don Hundley, Japan head of Mizuho equities electronic trading
Waters Wrap: Nasdaq, Quandl and the next phase of the alt data craze
Anthony looks at how Nasdaq's Quandl strategy ties into other trends spreading through the market.
Waters Wavelength Podcast: IBM’s Likhit Wagle on modernizing mainframes
IBM’s general manager of global banking and financial markets joins the podcast to talk about the importance of modernizing mainframes.
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.
Vendors push voice data across the trade lifecycle
Through partnerships and acquisitions, communications vendors are integrating voice data into different parts of the trade lifecycle to offer more sophisticated analytics and easier user interfaces.
Waters Wrap: On cloud migrations and VCRs
Financial services firms are increasingly embracing public cloud offerings, but there have been stumbles along the way, including around scalability, throttling, and a lack of true multi-cloud connectedness. These are lessons that must be learned if…
FIS modernizes through modularity
The vendor has been in the process of overhauling its entire tech estate for almost seven years, with the aim of offering modular, flexible services.
People Moves: Charles River, Causality Link, Preqin, and more
A look at some of the key people moves from this week, including Caroline O'Shaughnessy (pictured), who joins Charles River Development as Emea head.
Google aims AI at corporate actions challenges
The tech giant believes its AI tools have a multitude of applications across some of the complex data challenges of financial markets, and it’s starting with the manual and complicated world of corporate actions. Some believe it will be an uphill battle.
This Week: SmartStream, LSEG/Finbourne, FactSet/Cobalt, DTCC, BNP Paribas, and more
A summary of some of the past week’s financial technology news.
Driving Change and Doing Things Better
SmartStream Sibos Series
From burst to bust: What happens when cloud runs dry?
After years of initial resistance, the capital markets have come to depend heavily on the compute capacity of the public cloud. But increasing market volumes are rapidly outpacing the cloud capacity that organizations thought would be sufficient for…
More banks flirt with machine learning for CCAR—but risks persist
The superior computational grunt of neural networks is attractive to lenders, but a lack of explainability presents a significant downside.
Cloud: Capital markets’ Swiss Army knife
The best uses of the cloud so far have been as an enabler of performance and innovation. The best uses yet to come could reshape AI. So, Max warns, if you think cloud is about cutting costs, you’re thinking about it all wrong.
Google-Greenwich: Financial firms agree on cloud's ubiquity, but vary widely on use cases
New research highlights predicted growth areas for cloud computing—and the tools it enables, such as AI and machine learning—in the capital markets. Spoiler alert: Google says cloud is becoming as ubiquitous as the search giant itself.
Alt data’s second inning: Brace for a long M&A game
The alternative data sector is still relatively nascent, and as such buy-side firms have struggled with how best to incorporate these non-traditional sources of information. While sources say that there will be continued M&A in the market, how those…
Waters Wrap: Get ready for the low-code, no-code explosion
Anthony looks at some recent developments in the low-code and no-code spaces, and tries to better understand what’s hype and what’s reality.
Waters Wrap: Some random thoughts about Big Tech disruption and M&A in Q4
Anthony looks at what he thinks will be the biggest topics during the last quarter of 2021.
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.
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.
People Moves: Tradeweb, BondLink, Boosted.ai, Transcend, and more
A look at some of the key "people moves" from this week, including Devi Shanmugham (pictured), who joins Tradeweb as global head of compliance.
AI helps one investor screen targets against UN ethical goals
PanAgora has developed a two-stage process that aims to weed out the greenwashers.
Waters Wrap: Can interop connect the bond market better than consortiums? (Yes)
Anthony says that if trading firms want to take advantage of new datasets in fixed income and advancements in machine learning, they’re going to first have to embrace interoperability.