Trading Tech
Could cloud kill the data licensing debate and shake up pricing models?
Market participants say cloud has the potential to reimagine data licensing. But moving to the new operational model comes with a raft of unanswered questions.
State Street looks to bolster Charles River, Alpha platforms with FundGuard integration
State Street’s partnership with FundGuard will provide clients with multi-book accounting, allowing them to see two sets of records in one system.
Industry mulls identifier schema for digital assets
As crypto markets face a reckoning in the wake of the FTX scandal, standard-setters and industry participants say identifiers for tokens are key for the industry’s stability.
Waters Wrap: ASX’s Chess DLT meets calamitous fate—what can be learned?
The future of exchange technology resides in the cloud…not blockchain. Anthony says ASX proved this with its Chess replacement project.
Bloomberg, MarketAxess, Tradeweb probe three tech partners for consolidated tape bid
Venue-led consortium plans to pick a winner before EU regulators begin tender process – anticipated in third or fourth quarter of 2023.
OTC Markets rescues Edgar Online, plans ‘comprehensive’ US disclosure data service
Edgar Online’s new owners discuss their plans for the financial data and filings provider, and how owning the data will be key to expanding the range of services it can offer.
Transforming post-trade operations
This special report by Broadridge and WatersTechnology has collated powerful insights and viewpoints from industry and editorial experts on the status of this transformative mission and the challenges still presented.
Howson on steering Cboe past potholes and traffic cops
The head of the world’s largest options exchange discusses SEC regulation and SPX appeal.
All the pieces fit: connecting trader voice and messaging across workflows
Cloud9 expands Symphony's communication channels to trader voice, in an effort to simplify workflows as Wall Street struggles with compliant communications.
Waters Wrap: Banks explore new avenues for cloud cooperation
As banks and asset managers move more workloads to the cloud, they’re trying to find ways to cooperate to cut costs and exert more influence over the likes of AWS, Google and Microsoft. Anthony wonders if these early efforts will yield beneficial results…
LSEG’s Refinitiv to deliver Real-Time Full Tick data on the cloud in 2023
The data vendor has 19 points of presence from where it will provide co-located access to the new managed services by Q2 2023.
Symphony wants to be Wall Street’s phone book—but smarter
As Symphony strays further from its original purpose of being a chat platform, WatersTechnology sat down with Brad Levy at this year’s Innovate conference to discuss his vision for the firm.
End of Bloomberg’s pandemic provision sparks opportunity—for BBG and terminal upstarts
Middle- and back-office staff at banks and buy-side firms who have become accustomed to remotely accessing Bloomberg terminals at home under a disaster recovery provision could set off a surge of new remote data terminal subscriptions.
People Moves: CME Group, LPA, Edgewater and Sterling Trading Tech
A look at some of the key recent "people moves", including Matthias Schulz (pictured), who joins LPA.
New tech for corporate actions aims to improve the data extraction process
Demand for corporate actions data is increasing in the front and middle office, but the data can be hard to read.
Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan join forces to explore market data in the cloud
The banks’ vision is for vendors and consumers to be able to distribute and access all data sources in a multi-cloud environment. They’re mapping the way to get there.
LiquidityBook looks to displace Fidessa as sell-side OMS of choice
What began as a small buy-side technology offering, now has ambitions to oust Fidessa in the sell-side OMS space. LiquidityBook, now armed with a handful of ex-Fidessa employees, has secured the product expertise. Can it secure the clients?
Waters Wrap: Where have all the (data) cowboys gone?
Industry veterans says there’s a dearth of market data management talent in the lower ranks. Following Max Bowie’s coverage, Anthony explores some other reasons for this brain drain.
Chill winds blow for Capitolis’s equity swap platform
The fintech’s effort to revive off-balance-sheet funding runs into market and regulatory turbulence.
People Moves: UKEF, RBC, Plenitude and more
A look at some of the key people moves from this week, including Samir Parkash (pictured), who becomes UK Export Finance’s interim chief executive officer.
SmartStream Sibos 2022 Series Part 4: Innovation and Change Management
Vincent Kilcoyne, executive vice president, product management at SmartStream, chats to Victor Anderson about what innovation and change mean practically to SmartStream and its clients.
SmartStream Sibos 2022 Series Part 1: Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning
Jethro MacDonald, product manager for artificial intelligence & machine learning at SmartStream, chats to Victor Anderson about the firm's AI/ML-based products in its stable.
SmartStream Sibos 2022 Series Part 2: Managed Services
Mark Morris, head of managed services at SmartStream, chats to Victor Anderson about the significant uptick in demand for managed services from firms across the industry in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic.
SmartStream Sibos 2022 Series Part 3: Cash & Liquidity Management
Peter Dehaan, new business director, cash and liquidity management at SmartStream, chats to Victor Anderson about how SmartStream is helping its clients manage a range of challenges on the cash and liquidity management front.