Data science
Solid Data Lineage: The Foundation for Automation
As they deploy automation to solve regulatory problems, Asian firms are paying closer attention to data’s journey.
Virgin Atlantic's Data Strategy: The Offense Funds the Defense
During his keynote address at EFIS, Virgin Atlantic’s head of data and insight revealed the airline’s approach to data management and innovation.
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.
Gaining value from data through science and engineering
How much time do data scientists, analysts and quants spend doing the jobs they're employed to do? In the vast majority of cases, not enough
Lloyds CDO Maranca Departs Finance for Schneider Electric
Maranca will be responsible for executing a global data strategy at Schneider Electric.
FCA to Tackle Big Data, Expects Firms to Act Ethically
Charles Randell says data and technology usage by firms should "liberate" not "disenfranchize" consumers, and regulation is "central to defining" ethical practices.
JP Morgan Data Scientist Eyes Insights from Internal Data
The bank’s asset management arm believes that trawling its home waters for data will land a valuable catch. Risk.net’s Faye Kilburn speaks to the data scientist at its helm.
Digital Reasoning Readies Public Release of Model-Training Platform
To solve the old needle-in-a-haystack problem, Digital Reasoning is developing a tool dubbed Cognition to improve the training process for machine-learning models.
Best Reference Data Provider: S&P Global Market Intelligence
IMD/IRD Awards 2018
Young Datasets, Inexperienced Talent Make Alt Data Challenging
The relatively nascent alternative data industry is creating challenges for asset managers, specifically when it comes to a lack of historical data and a lack of talent that can interrogate the data.
Mosaic Looks to Outer Space for AI-Powered Surveillance
Partnership with European Space Agency will apply machine learning to financial markets.
Data Science Boom Drives FactSet to Launch Alt Data Marketplace
In response to client demand, FactSet is making "alternative" datasets from a select range of partners available via its datafeeds, alongside its proprietary data.
Artificial Intelligence: From Winter to Spring
AI is experiencing a renaissance, but some are concerned that it could carry hidden risks.
JP Morgan Chief Data Scientist Departs for Cerberus AI Role
Afshar, a former academic and Goldman Sachs exec, will be responsible for building a proprietary AI platform and supporting team of data scientists.
July 2017: The Human Factor
In the world of traditional data management versus advanced analytics, some see data managers as sherpas and data science professionals as rocket scientists.
Secret Formula: Sequencing the Genome of Data Scientists
Many firms are creating data science teams to gain insights from new sources of unstructured and alternative data. But finding people with the right skillsets within the financial markets ecosystem is proving to be a barrier that slows firms’ ability to…
NAFIS 2017: Evolving Data Science Key to Effective Data Mining
Integrating data science projects will be key for institutions to get the most out of data in the future, but skillsets and the role of data scientist teams are still evolving. Joanne Faulkner reports.
Almax Hires PhD Shynkevich as Data Scientist
Shynkevich's PhD research involved using machine-learning to predict price movements based on data and news.
Data Science Major Focus for Firms Going Foward
Institutions see data science as the most important challenge and opportunity facing their data management functions.
ETAS Panel: Data Science Tops Priorities
Institutions see data science as the most important challenge and opportunity facing their data management functions.
Domino Data Labs Raises $10.5M to Accelerate Growth
The funding will "throw gas on the fire" of the data science startup's "exploding" demand, officials say.
Cambridge Semantics Taps Data Scientist Keen for Financial Services Push
Keen has spent more than 25 years in data science and analytics technology roles.
JPMC's Afshar: Use Data Science for Real Business Problems, Not ‘Fishing Expeditions'
Users seeking to employ data science techniques must be "laser-focused" on the business problems that they need to solve, Afshar told attendees.