Sentiment
Fund Houses Get Picky Over Where to Use Machine Learning
Buy-siders have limited their usage of deep learning techniques due to haziness over their inner workings.
Geopolitical Risk Data Moves from Foreign Intelligence to Fund Management
As nations and markets become increasingly interconnected, geopolitical risk has become top of mind for portfolio managers.
State Street Aims to Bolster ESG Offering with Latest Partnership
State Street is teaming up with Harvard professor George Serafeim to create solutions that help institutional investors find ESG materiality.
A Blueprint for Alternative Data in Asset Management
UBS Asset Management’s data chief sets out his recommendations for using alternative data in the investment process.
Firms Carve Rosetta Stones for Non-English AI Surveillance
Development of machine learning and natural-language processing is now turning to languages other than English to keep a better eye on traders and the market. But how easy is it to teach a machine a new tongue?
Deep Learning: The Evolution is Here
WatersTechnology speaks with data specialists from all parts of the capital markets in an in-depth examination of deep learning's impact in finance.
The New Oil Rush: An Examination of the Alternative Data Market
Banks are looking to cash in on the alternative data boom, but an in-depth investigation of the alternative data market shows that they may be in for an uphill battle to claim territory.
FlexTrade Adds IPP Platform to EMS
The interoperability platform will enable clients to have access to real-time data sharing and improve workflow collaboration.
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.
Nasdaq Adds New Alt Data to Analytics Hub
Nasdaq has bolstered its Analytics Hub with four new sources of alternative data.
The Mentor: Peter Noll, Acadian Asset Management
Waters speaks with Acadian's CTO about raising the next generation of tech leaders.
Natural Language Generation Gains Traction in the Research Space, but Challenges Remain
The use of natural language generation to summarize research data increases engagement, according to speakers at this year's North American Innovation Summit, although true insights are still hard to glean.
The Right Place at the Right Time
Technology can’t solve all of the market’s problems. But sometimes events can conspire to make it seem like it can. James warns on the propensity among technologists to believe in false prophets.
Thomson Reuters, MarketPsych Unveil Sentiment Index Update, Adding Bitcoin Data
The vendors are monitoring additional sources of news and social media specific to cryptocurrencies.
Nasdaq Mulling Pari-Mutuel Tech for Potential Products
The model, widely used in gambling, could have applications for customized options and other exotic financial products.
IPC and GreenKey Partner for Speech-to-Text Conversion
IPC will provide audio streams to GreenKey and convert it to useable data.
Northfield Partners with Alexandria for Sentiment-Based Risk Models
The offering aims to help users quantify risk based on the latest news.
Northfield Info Bows News Analytics-Based Risk Model Data
The new service will deliver more accurate predictive risk models without any changes on the part of clients, officials say.
MarketPsych Posts Cryptocurrency Sentiment Indexes
The behavioral analysis vendor has released a series of 43 “indexes” designed to provide sentiment scores for specific aspects of cryptocurrencies that investors can use to pick potential investments in the growing digital currency markets. Max Bowie…
Farringdon to Debut AI-Powered Asset Management
Investment selections will still be overseen by human managers before trades are executed.
Nasdaq Adds Earnings Sentiment Data to Analytics Hub
The new dataset provides signals based on sentiment analysis of statements made during corporate earnings announcements.
Burton Taylor: Sentiment Survey Predicts Positive Growth for 2017
The survey highlights pricing and reference data, valuations, risk and regulation-related spend as having the strongest sentiment for growth in spend.
Startup Indexer Bows Vector App for Predicting Price Movements
Officials say the Vector app can deliver predictive indicators of stock price movements based on more relevant real-time inputs than historical data.
State Street Expands MediaStats Sentiment Platform to Europe, Asia
After launching the MediaStats platform last year, State Street is looking to expand its coverage beyond US equities, to measure the impact of media activity on stock prices of companies listed on European and Asian markets. Joanne Faulkner reports on…