Asset Managers
Friendly fire? Nasdaq squeezes MTF competitors with steep fee increase
The stock exchange almost tripled the prices of some datasets for multilateral trading facilities, with sources saying the move is the latest effort by exchanges to offset declining trading revenues.
Project Condor: Inside the data exercise expanding Man Group’s universe
Voice of the CTO: The investment management firm is strategically restructuring its data and trading architecture.
BNP Paribas explores GenAI for securities services business
The bank recently released a new web app for its client portal to modernize its tech stack.
Coming to America: Deutsche Börse targets US market using SimCorp One
Fresh from integrating SimCorp and rearranging its business lines, the German exchange has set American expansion as its goal for SimCorp’s buy-side offering.
Tariffs, data spikes, and having a ‘reasonable level of paranoia’
History doesn’t repeat itself, but it rhymes. Covid brought a “new normal” and a multitude of lessons that markets—and people—are still learning. New tariffs and global economic uncertainty mean it’s time to apply them, ready or not.
Saugata Saha pilots S&P’s way through data interoperability, AI
Saha, who was named president of S&P Global Market Intelligence last year, details how the company is looking at enterprise data and the success of its early investments in AI.
A new data analytics studio born from a large asset manager hits the market
Amundi Asset Management’s tech arm is commercializing a tool that has 500 users at the buy-side firm.
How exactly does a private-share trading platform work?
As companies stay private for longer, new trading platforms are looking to cash in by helping investors cash out.
One year on, S&P makes Visible Alpha more visible
The data giant says its acquisition of Visible Alpha last May is enabling it to bring the smaller vendor’s data to a range of new audiences.
Inside the company that helped build China’s equity options market
Fintech firm Bachelier Technology on the challenges of creating a trading platform for China’s unique OTC derivatives market.
‘Barcodes’ for market data and how they’ll revolutionize contract compliance
The IMD Wrap: Several recent initiatives could ease arduous data audit and reporting processes. But they need buy-in from all parties if all parties are to benefit.
‘The opaque juggernaut’: Private credit’s data deficiencies become clear
Investor demand to take advantage of the growing private credit markets is rising, despite limited data, trading mechanisms, and a lack of liquidity.
Orchestrade resists SaaS model in favor of customer flexibility
Firms like Orchestrade are minimizing funds and banks’ risks with different approaches to risk management.
Pisces season: Platform providers feed UK plan for private stock market
Several companies in the US and the UK are considering participating in a UK program to build a private stock market composed of separate trading platforms.
Asset manager Fortlake turns to AI data mapping for derivatives reporting
The firm also intends to streamline the data it sends to its administrator and establish a centralized database with the help of Fait Solutions.
New study reveals soaring market data spend led by trading terminals
The research finds that 2024 was a record year for overall market data spend, supported by growth in terminal use, new license schemes by index providers, and great price variation among ratings agencies.
The murky future of buying or building trading technology
Waters Wrap: It’s obvious the buy-v-build debate is changing as AI gets more complex, but Anthony wonders how trading firms will keep up.
FactSet lays out trading roadmap post LiquidityBook deal
The software and data provider announced it was buying LiquidityBook this month, filling a gap in its front-office suite of solutions.
‘I recognize that tree’: Are market data fees defying gravity?
What do market data fees have in common with ‘Gilmore Girls’ and Samuel Beckett? Allow Reb to tell you.
The CAT declawed as Citadel’s case reaches end game
The SEC reduced the CAT’s capacity to collect information on investors, in a move that will have knock-on effects for its ongoing funding model case with Citadel.
How a Chinese AI firm shook the tech world
DeepSeek’s AI model is the very ethos of doing what you can with what you have.