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Disrupting data delivery: AWS Data Exchange gains ground with addition of FactSet content
Leveraging AWS’s presence on Wall Street, Data Exchange has the potential to shake up traditional financial data delivery and contracts, if it can add relevant content and overcome challenges like real-time streaming and connectivity in the cloud.
This Week: T+1; FlexTrade/TradeFeedr; SimCorp/Snowflake; and more
A summary of some of the past week's financial technology news.
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.
Anna Service Bureau upgrade aims to evolve with emerging data landscape
Modernization will help numbering agency data hub adapt to new technologies and improve data quality post-Isin review.
This Week: Deutsche Borse; State Street; IHS Markit; MSCI; & more
A summary of the week's financial technology news.
ASX builds ‘DLT-as-a-service’ offering to help prep market for Chess replacement
The exchange’s customer Daml sandpit has been up and running since January and has had over 20 firms log on. The next phase—its DLT cloud environment—will be ready in early October.
Cloud-based Data Services—Identifying the Benefits and Potential Pitfalls
At least one silver lining emerged from the Covid-19 pandemic for the financial services industry: most capital markets firms on both sides of the industry appear to have coped well with the initial disruption. Pretty much all of these firms have adapted…
Swedish bank finds Covid-19 recovery insights in alt datasets
High-frequency data such as human mobility data and plastic shipments can help investment professionals understand the post-pandemic economic reopening.
People Moves: LedgerEdge, JP Morgan, MarketAxess, Enfusion, and more
A look at some of the key people moves from this week, including Michelle Neal (pictured), who has joined enterprise software vendor LedgerEdge as CEO of US operations.
This Week: Oracle/Deutsche Bank, Northern Trust, Charles River, Simcorp, and more
A summary of some of the past week’s financial technology news.
New entrants want to feed bond market’s hunger for data
In the absence of a consolidated tape for debt securities in the EU, vendors with different approaches to distributing fixed-income market data are emerging.
Now that Oats is scrapped, regulators will have to (Cat)ch up
Retiring Oats is a milestone on the long and winding road to Cat implementation, but the SEC must make some major decisions in a very short timeframe before the Cat journey is over.
Four years of academic study on HFT yields complicated results
A transatlantic group of researchers has examined a treasure trove of market data to see whether or not high-frequency trading is a necessary component of today’s market structure. The answer is largely ‘yes,’ but with caveats.
Vanguard overhauls EU data strategy to better manage analytics, regulatory needs
The asset manager’s CIO for Europe aims to centralize responsibilities from its UK and EU offices for how its business in the region manages data and develops new investment products.
Finra taps AWS for next-gen regulatory search tools
A long-time AWS client, Finra is using a combination of AWS tools and its own knowledge graph to generate better search results.
Waters Wrap: A dangerous game of Cat & hacker (And reg reporting fees)
Anthony takes a look at the Consolidated Audit Trail and concerns over its security. He also touches on the rapidly changing face of the regulatory reporting marketplace.
SEC attorney defends personal information in the Cat
Regulators will need biographical information to get the most out of the Consolidated Audit Trail, advisor said, as broker-dealers and exchanges argue over liability for breaches.
This Week: Refinitiv ESG; Nikko/GoldenSource; Causality Link/Eagle Alpha; Crux & more
A summary of some of the past week's financial technology news.
Datactics Experiments with Knowledge Graphs
The company aims to show that pairing good quality data with knowledge graphs can lead to links that previously would have been missed.
Waters Wrap: Blockchain is Still Overhyped (And Ion/Broadway Thoughts & the Consulting Boom)
In 2016, Anthony wrote that the blockchain revolution was overhyped—unsurprisingly, his opinions have not changed. He also delves into the Ion-Broadway deal, and looks at new consulting/advisory firms that have recently come to market.
Goldman Sachs Takes Aim at Interoperability, Analytics with Marquee Enhancements
The bank’s recent moves signal what could become a managed services offering, as Goldman further embraces cloud, open source, and APIs.
Low-Code Movement Gains Converts, but Skeptics Remain
What if you could create your ideal, fully-functional application without writing a single line of code? With low-code and no-code platforms, you can—with a catch … or two, or three, or four.
Trust Issues: As Zero-Trust Architectures Mature, Bank Infrastructures Face 'Growing Pains'
Coronavirus has heightened the need for IT and data security, exposing areas for potential improvement. One option is to lock down sensitive areas using a practice called Zero-Trust Architecture, which offers a host of benefits, but brings with it some…
European Commission Picks FactSet for Risk Data
The EU authority is buying three datasets from the vendor, which it will use to track supply chain risk in the single market.