Case study
XiNG: Inside Citi’s all-encompassing risk platform
Voice of the CTO: Citi’s chief information officer, Jon Lofthouse, explains how and why the bank has extended its enterprise-wide risk platform so that every trade in any asset class goes through it.
Deutsche Bank delivers AI, client insights with ‘muscle memory’
Voice of the CTO: The German bank is taking finely honed skills and capabilities and deploying them for new and emerging use cases.
Bank of America reduces, reuses, and recycles tech for markets division
Voice of the CTO: When it comes to the old build, buy, or borrow debate, Ashok Krishnan and his team are increasingly leaning into repurposing tech that is tried and true.
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.
Standard Chartered goes from spectator to player in digital asset game
The bank’s digital assets custody offering is underpinned by an open API and modular infrastructure, allowing it to potentially add a secondary back-end system provider.
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.
Terry Duffy on CME’s cloud future, takeover targets, and ... candy
CME CEO Terry Duffy explains the relatively narrow strategy that the derivatives exchange has taken under his leadership, especially compared to its peers.
Orchestrade resists SaaS model in favor of customer flexibility
Firms like Orchestrade are minimizing funds and banks’ risks with different approaches to risk management.
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.
BlackRock tests ‘quantum cognition’ AI for high-yield bond picks
The proof of concept uses the Qognitive machine learning model to find liquid substitutes for hard-to-trade securities.
JP Morgan, Eurex push for DLT-driven collateral management
The high-stakes project could be a litmus test for the use of blockchain technology in the capital markets.
On GenAI, Citi moves from firm-wide ban to internal roll-out
The bank adopted three specific inward-facing use cases with a unified framework behind them.
To unlock $40T private markets, Hamilton Lane embraced automation
In search of greater transparency and higher quality data, asset managers are taking a tech-first approach to resource gathering in an area that has major data problems.
Market data for private markets? BlackRock sees its big opportunity
The investment giant’s CEO said he envisions a far bigger private market business in 2025.
Asset manager Saratoga uses AI to accelerate Ridgeline rollout
The tech provider’s AI assistant helps clients summarize research, client interactions, report generation, as well as interact with the Ridgeline platform.
BNY uses proprietary data store to connect disparate applications
Internally built ODS is the “bedrock” upon which BNY plans to become more than just a custodian bank.
Deutsche Bank experiments with regulatory GenAI tool
Project Aggie can complete what business domain experts typically do in a few hours in under five minutes, the bank says.
Fidelity’s quantum exploration unites theory and proof
The asset manager and Amazon have teamed to put a quantum twist on machine learning.
Northern Trust adds fixed-income capabilities for outsourced trading in Asia-Pacific
The custodian bank now offers 24/6 fixed-income trading coverage with desks in Chicago, London, and Sydney.
Kepler Cheuvreux builds proprietary execution platform with Adaptive
The broker wants to move away from third-party technologies as DORA’s risk management requirements could make vendor relationships more cumbersome.
BMO’s cloud migration strategy eases AI adoption
The Canadian bank is embracing a more digital future as its cloud strategy makes gains and it looks to both traditional machine learning and generative AI for further augmentation.
How Ally found the key to GenAI at the bottom of a teacup
Risk-and-tech chemistry—plus Microsoft’s flexibility—has seen the US lender leap from experiments to execution.
Chris Edmonds takes the reins at ICE Fixed Income and Data Services
Edmonds is now leading ICE’s fixed income and data business as the rush to provide better data and analytics in fixed income builds.