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‘Massive Land Grab’: S&P’s IHS Markit Buy Creates Data Juggernaut, But Users Fear Price Hikes
The deal reflects the broader trend of market participants pursuing scale to create true front-to-back trading and data environments, which may signal a trading platform acquisition in the future—though the IHS Markit acquisition may face regulatory…
Broadridge Onboards Clients to Corporate Bonds Platform Set to Launch Next Year
The vendor's LTX platform leverages a neural network to navigate the complexity of the corporate bond market, and is expected to launch in the first quarter of 2021.
Fulcrum AM Looks to Quantify ESG Risk by Honing Hard Numbers
ESG risks will become part of investment and risk management processes across all funds at the firm.
This Week: Nasdaq, Bloomberg, Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Boerse, BNP Paribas, Wolters Kluwer, and More
A summary of some of the past week's financial technology news.
AxeTrading To Roll Out More Automation for Fixed Income Platform
Vendor integrates open source stream processing software Apache Kafka for real-time event data.
This Week: CME, Katana/IHS Markit, S&P, SmartStream, Causality Link & More
A summary of some of the past week’s technology news
ASX Presses Forward with DataSphere Buildout
The initiative's aim is to capture more of the exchange's internal data to commercialize that useful information for the investment community.
BNP Paribas AM Combines NLP, ML for Sentiment Indicators in News Data
The asset manager is teaming with a vendor on the project, which will first be used for equities trading before moving to corporate bonds.
Tradeweb Bolsters China Bond Market Access with Electronic CIBM Direct Trading Overlay
Officials say the move makes Tradeweb the only platform to offer electronic trading in Chinese bonds via two different channels.
MarketAxess Looks to Give Dealers Additional Axe Control
The tool allows dealers to stream axes to clients with customizable control over visibility.
Nasdaq to Launch Sustainable Bond Comparison Tool
The exchange is improving the technical functionality of its Sustainable Bond Network, which launched in December.
This Week: HKEX, ICE, Clearstream, Broadridge, IHS Markit and more
A summary of some of the past week’s financial technology news.
Scrutiny and Frictions Follow EMS Vendors into Fixed Income
Aggregators are facing resistance from venues and attracting the attention of regulators.
NatWest Markets to Expand Chatbot for IRS Trade Execution
The investment bank is upgrading its chatbot in response to user demand for more capabilities.
This Week: ICE, Nasdaq/R3, BMLL/OpenFin, DASH
A summary of some of the past week’s financial technology news.
How Sarson Strover’s Outsourcing Policy Averted Virus Disruption
The newly fledged UK hedge fund has outsourced its portfolio management tech and operations to third parties, a move that has helped it through the coronavirus pandemic.
Trading Venues Aim to Unlock Value of Green Bonds
Tech providers are looking for ways to increase liquidity in climate bonds, a tiny but fast-growing corner of the fixed-income universe.
Post IBM Pairing, Broadridge Looks to Revamp Bonds, Wealth Offerings
The vendor is leveraging IBM to help improve its analytics offering for corporate bonds and to revamp its wealth management platform.
People Moves: Ultumus, Liquidnet, OpenDoor, MIX, Deutsche Börse
A look at some of the key "people moves" from this week, including Fe Zamora who joins Ultumus to run their new US office.
BondCliQ 9 Dealers Away From Operating Full-Scale SIP for Bonds
Tier-1 corporate bond dealers are still holding out from contributing their quote and pricing data to the two-year-old platform.
Euroclear to Roll Out Fixed Income Data Services
The post-trade firm and custodian will launch new data services for fixed income liquidity and APIs for its reference data offerings.
ICE Looks to Bolster ESG Service as Investors Grapple with Lack of Standards
ICE Data Services says investors can access its reference data subscription later this year to build out their ESG strategies.
Blockchain in the Capital Markets: Slow Progress in 2019
While real blockchain rollouts are still few and far between, some firms made progress in 2019. Here are 18 projects in some stage of development.
Fundament Expanding Tokenized German Real Estate Offering
For it's real estate token, 90% of investment is coming from institutional firms.