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Tradeworx Sells Trading Arm to Focus on Fintech
The company renamed itself Thesys Group and will focus on growing Thesys Technologies.
Breaker of Chains: The Appeals and Perils of Quantum Computing
“We need to seriously rethink encryption and seriously rethink things that rely on encryption, like blockchain. Anything that is heavily dependent on complexity needs to be reconsidered in a quantum world.”
Northfield Partners with Alexandria for Sentiment-Based Risk Models
The offering aims to help users quantify risk based on the latest news.
Horizon to Connect More Crypto Exchanges in Q2
The firm is looking to add itBit and Coinygi to the list of exchanges it is connected with.
The Intertwined Relationship Between Humans and AI
Aggelos explores people’s fear of artificial intelligence and uses the financial services industry as an example to demonstrate that robots and humans are bound to walk together.
A Look Back at Emerging Technologies in 2017
Looking back at the big technology talking points In the past year.
Money.Net Debuts Crypto Data
The vendor says the new data is in response to an about-face in demand for cryptocurrency data.
Chicago Code: A Profile of DRW's Seth Thomson
Seth Thomson, CIO of DRW, talks to Waters about his career, innovation and how the firm has expanded into new asset classes, including cryptocurrencies.
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.
Artificial Intelligence: From Winter to Spring
AI is experiencing a renaissance, but some are concerned that it could carry hidden risks.
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…
Top Stories of 2017: Best of Sell-Side Technology
Regulation may have dominated the headlines this year but advances in machine learning and artificial intelligence were also high on the agenda.
The Dark Art of Pre-Trade Analytics
Financial firms commonly review trading activity after the fact to improve their execution strategies. But what they’d really love to do is perform that in real time, pre-trade. Max Bowie looks at how far along market participants are in pursuit of this…
After Building an AI Black Swan Detector, Compellon Mulls Path Forward
The California-based company has built a quantitative analysis engine using machine learning to help score sell-side analysts and search for potential black-swan events.
ADVFN Adds CME Bitcoin Data
ADVFN has made bitcoin futures data from CME available on its websites, which the vendor says serve four million registered users.
Vanguard and Symbiont Ally on Blockchain Project
With CRSP, the pilot will bring index data immediately to asset managers' networks.
Eze Software Teams with Wise Trading to Boost FX Capabilities
One asset manager is about to go live on the joint solution, which marks another major partnership by Eze with a third party this year.
Integral Adds Crypto Data to OCX Viewer
The vendor will make real-time data on popular crypto pairs available immediately through its app.
Chat Rooms and Trading Floors
“We’re a more socially-connected world, there have been advances in compliances controls, and there have been changes in social norms."
Big Tech Has a Big Hill to Climb Before Disrupting Asset Managers
While asset management doesn’t have anywhere near the same level of regulatory oversight as investment banking or consumer retail banking, the winds of change are blowing.
BondWave Hires Former DPC, Ipreo Exec Newman
Newman previously worked witth BondWave CEO Michael Ruvo at DPC Data.
TruValue Bows ESG Scores Data Service
TruValue's tests show that stocks with good ESG scores plucked from the S&P500 outperform the index as a whole over five years.
R3's Corda Now Available on Amazon Web Services
Users can build Corda applications on the AWS cloud, bypassing the need for individual permissions on local machines.
ASX Gives Green Light to Clearing Blockchain
The exchange expects to release the proposed timing for transition for market feedback by the end of March 2018.