Buy-Side Technology/Analysis
While Blockchain Inches Closer, Final Capital Markets Leap Remains a Mystery, Panelists Say
Blockchain is coming to the capital markets, but what shape it takes is unclear
trueEX CEO Discusses Automated Execution, Processing Solution
Sunil Hirani, CEO of trueEX, talks with WatersTechnology about the launch of trueFIX and partnerships with JPMorgan and RBS.
Marto Capital CEO Talks Technology, Liquidity
Katina Stefanova, founder, CEO and chief investment officer of Marto Capital, discusses her views on technology and liquidity.
TreeTop AM, BoE Highlight European Digitization Drives
Wealth management firms in the region are moving too slowly in developing a complete digital strategy and must take a bolder stance on new technologies or risk being left behind. The same is true of prudential authorities.
Data Management: Regulation, Problems and Solutions For the Buy Side
Regulators are looking for evidence of good processes and procedures around data withing the firms that fall under their jurisdiction.
Algo Testing a Major Concern Under MiFID II, ETAS Panelists Say
Clarity of definitions and testing environments are still major hurdles for firms' MiFID II readiness, panelists say.
Perretta Discusses State Street's Transformation Wave, New CIO
Waters caught up on the latest with the firm's global head of enterprise data and tech.
Airex CEO Stephen Kuhn Discusses Company's Plans to Become the Amazon of Wall Street
Today Airex announced Brazilian trading platform, market data and network connectivity provider CMA has joined Airex's AMP program.
Liquidnet Rattles Market Structure Fault Lines with New Corporates Platform
Institutional global network corporate bond platform takes aim at fragmented liquidity in fixed income.
Better Data Architectures, Algorithms Take on Greater Importance
At MarketTech 2015: FinTech Barbarians at the Gates, hosted in New York by Tabb Group, industry specialists voiced their opinions on the future of data.
With Outages Rising, Diversification Takes on Greater Importance
Panelists at BST North America discuss the recent spate of outages experienced at utilities, vendors and exchanges.
Frankfurt Regulation Roadshow Panel: Retro-fit vs. Greenfield Regulatory Reporting Systems
Panelists debate different approaches to regulatory reporting in order to maintain compliance and to meet regulatory deadlines.
As Visualization Tools Improve, Data Analytics Moves from ‘Big Data' to ‘Smart Data'
Heads of technology discuss the evolving data analytics space and how visualization tools are helping to compliment the movement.
For Most Buy-Side Firms, Addition of a CDO Not on the Radar
A panel at this year’s Buy-Side Technology North American Summit looked at the role of chief data officer on the buy side.
Incident-Response Plans, Education Key to Protecting Against Hacks, say Panelists
At this year's Buy-Side Technology North American Summit, panelists discussed the importance of people in protecting against cyber attacks.
BlackRock's Godrich: OpenStack, Software-Defined Data Centers Increasingly on the Rise
The money manager's chief technologist sang the praises of open-source technologies at BST North America.
Death of the Data Warehouse
Two panelists at the Buy-Side Technology North American Summit talk about their firms' use of big data lakes in place of data warehouses.
Harnessing Generation Y's Talent in Fintech
Validus' Mary Kotch explains the need to attract millennial talent.
New Bernstein Pairs Tool Highlights Bloomberg App Portal's Rapid Maturation
Tim Bourgaize Murray chats with Vipul Nagrath and Toby Bayliss about the evolution of the firm's app program as Bernstein, AB (AllianceBernstein's) research and execution arm, has made its pairs trading tool available to Bloomberg Professional…
Inexact Science: When, If Ever, Should Intuition Trump AI?
A panel at the Chicago Trading and Architecture Summit 2015 discusses whether success in the capital markets is now more about science than business.
Data Governance: More Important Than Ever, Yet Half Lag Behind
Eagle Investment Systems partnered with Waters on the release a new whitepaper, "Command and Control: Establishing a Formal Data Governance Strategy," which examines a recent survey of technology and data management professionals. David Dawkins chats…
SS&C CEO Discusses Acquisition Flurry, Future Plans
Bill Stone, SS&C CEO, chats with Dan DeFrancesco about the five acquisitions his firm has made over the past 12 months and what the plan is going forward.
FBI Views Finance as a Top Cyber Target, Encourages Greater Collaboration
Assistant Special Agent in Charge Richard Jacobs told a Waters audience yesterday about the magnitude of the threat now being faced.
Asset Managers' LDI Growth Pushes Custom Solutions, Front-End Upgrades
Tim Bourgaize Murray chats with Manulife's Eric Menzer about the asset management industry's growing presence in liability-driven investment, and the tech direction his firm has headed as a result.