Risk
SmartStream Launches Tool for Intraday Liquidity Stress Tests
The module allows clients to perform stress testing on demand, integrated with data from the vendor's cash and liquidity management solution.
The Need for a Designated Crypto Asset Regulator
Senior academic says a new taxonomy—and a new regulator—is needed to determine whether crypto assets should fall under existing financial frameworks.
Waters Wrap: The Race to the Cloud (And More on Name Changes, Reg Reporting, & Covid Data)
Anthony Malakian examines how firms are racing to the cloud to roll out new market data services. He also looks at ChartIQ's name change, the regulatory reporting space, and Lazard's Covid-19 data rollout.
This Week: Trading Technologies, Deutsche Borse, SS&C-Canoe, TNS, Clearstream-LCH, S&P, Refinitiv, Sterling TT
A summary of some of the past week’s financial technology news.
HPR Preps Market Data Entry with Databot
The Massachusetts-based infrastructure provider is looking to become a one-stop shop in the low-latency trading space.
Centralized Data Hubs—The Key to Cracking the Data Quality Conundrum
This survey report focuses on the extent to which financial services firms suffer from suboptimal data, the degree to which they acknowledge their shortcomings and the steps they have taken or are considering to remedy the situation
Citycom Employs Facial, Object Recognition for Covid Remote Working Security Checks
The new solution can give firms insight into the activities, performance, and health of employees working from home during the Covid-19 outbreak, to monitor for potential risk factors and security breaches.
Trading Venues Face Resilience Test in Covid-19 Pandemic
Software testing and monitoring keeps market infrastructure a step ahead amid market volatility.
UBS Head of Tech: How Virtual Desktops Keep Workers Plugged in During the Pandemic
The Swiss bank’s A3 system offers a blueprint for remote working as the industry looks to life beyond coronavirus.
Outsourcing and the Buy Side—Coming Around Again
Outsourcing certain business functions to specialist providers is not a new phenomenon across the capital markets. But times are changing. Even before the onset of the coronavirus (Covid‑19) pandemic, buy-side firms had begun taking a long hard look at…
This Week: Northern Trust/BackRock, Nasdaq, IHS Markit/OpenGamma, MEMX, and More
A summary of some of the past week’s financial technology news.
Capital Markets Post Covid-19—A Brave New World?
Every capital markets firm—regardless of size, sophistication and level of expertise—has been significantly impacted in one way or another by the Covid-19 pandemic. What started as a health crisis spread quickly to the capital markets, although it’s…
Pandemic Fuels New Wave of Surveillance Tech
Firms are investing in new solutions for monitoring the front office in lockdown conditions, but the latest technologies raise concerns about privacy and intrusion.
Nowcasting Provides Macro Insights, say Active Managers
Using alternative data to understand macroeconomic conditions in almost real time can give investment teams an edge.
MSCI Uses NLP to Measure Company Innovation
The global market index firm is quantifying innovative investments and mapping them to a company’s performance.
Covid-19: A New Era for Trade Surveillance
As the boundaries between work and home blur, monitoring and privacy may be at odds.
Nasdaq Repackages Clearing Platform for NFF Tech Stack
The exchange will add further portfolio applications to the NFF according to market demand.
IHS Markit Rolls Out New Buy-Side Derivatives Risk Modeling Platform
The product combines emerging technologies to offer speed, scale, and new perspectives on credit spreads and portfolio performance by overlaying financial data with alt data.
Opportunity and Caution Abound with Extra Year for UMR
With the uncleared margin rules deadline extended, firms have an additional year to prepare, but they must do so while navigating the coronavirus pandemic and its economic fallout.
Calculating Fair Valuations for Securities—The Underlying Complexities of Trading Fixed Income
While some things have changed significantly over the past two decades across the capital markets, others have ostensibly remained the same. But, when it comes to the world of fixed income, where the investable universe is appreciably larger—in the…
Banks Grapple with VPN Capacity Amid Covid-Induced Network Strain
Private network limitations and variable internet connectivity have challenged operational resiliency and business continuity plans.
Torstone to Integrate Risk Calculations into Inferno
The vendor will add trading position flow and risk calculations to the platform this year, as it continues to integrate functions from recent acquisition Percentile.
Bloomberg to Offer Next-Gen Risk Models to Enterprise, Terminal Clients
In addition to consolidating the Port risk models for terminal users and enterprise clients, the data vendor is looking to use advanced risk models to create better hedging strategies for equities.
AI Poised to Transform Reconciliations
This research paper charts the progress of SmartStream AIR, from its inception around the start of 2018 to its launch, and focuses on the new ground it breaks in what is historically a complex, expensive and invariably laborious process within large…