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Technology trends in capital markets: Transforming the sell-side FX front office
The capital markets landscape is witnessing a technological revolution – a wave transforming the sell-side FX front office. Firms such as smartTrade Technologies are at the forefront of this transformation, leveraging technologies such as artificial…
Waters Wavelength Podcast: David Hardoon dissects language models
David Hardoon returns to talk about the field of language and how it’s the ‘heart and soul’ of artificial intelligence.
Inside look: How Big Tech is using generative AI to win over finance
Execs from Amazon, Google and IBM explain their capital markets strategy when it comes to rolling out new AI tools.
Snowflake: Data strategy essential for AI
The cloud data platform provider continues to make investments in data quality and cleansing.
Waters Wavelength Podcast: IBM on generative AI
This week, John Duigenan from IBM joins the podcast to discuss generative AI.
AI in sheep’s clothing? Wolfe Research develops finance chatbot
The bot is trained using financial and ESG data, but won’t replace humans—yet—says the firm.
Waters Wavelength Podcast: Generative AI: The philosophical considerations
Steve Rubinow joins the podcast to discuss artificial intelligence and the hype cycle of generative AI.
BoE model risk rule may drive real-time monitoring of AI
New rule requires banks to rerun performance tests on models that recalibrate dynamically.
Amazon bullish on AWS growth, signals more investment in generative AI
Tech giant’s cloud computing arm grew customer base in Q2 despite cost-cutting among users
HSBC hikes tech spend, scales up AI projects
The bank is hoping to turn higher technology costs to its advantage, investing in its new digital trade platform and increasing its exploration of generative AI.
Deutsche Börse ‘cannot afford’ to miss out on generative AI; SimCorp deal on schedule
The exchange group wants to be at the forefront of the emerging technology field and has extended its partnership with Google into AI.
Microsoft, Google highlight LLM capabilities for future growth
Satya Nadella and Sundar Pichai both touted the advancements their respective companies have made in the field of generative AI during their earnings calls.
As ESG investing faces headwinds, MSCI’s CEO says ESG ‘most popular’ topic for clients
For future analytics enhancements, the vendor will also lean into large language models and generative AI.
Citi cyber chief says AI providing new weapons in hacking wars
Barron-DiCamillo also urges regulators to work with industry best practice, not against it
Waters Wavelength Podcast: Symphony’s Brad Levy
Symphony’s CEO Brad Levy joins to discuss the future direction for the company and ESG data and analytics.
MarketAxess looks to proprietary data and automation with new offerings
The fixed-income trading provider’s Adaptive Auto-X automation tool and new data offerings were a bright spot amid lackluster Q2 earnings.
IBM bets big on generative AI
Although Q2 revenue was flat year-on-year, it was buoyed by IBM’s hybrid cloud and AI strategy. The tech giant will build up its AI capabilities similarly to how it’s dealt with Red Hat OpenShift.
State of the tech: A half-year check-in with large language models
AI is having a moment, and data vendors and software providers are seizing on it. Some are building models in-house, while others are looking to third parties to power their strategies—but the focus is largely on productivity and faster data access…
Banks’ internal watchdogs bark back at ChatGPT
Generative AI has plenty of uses in finance, but banks must first overcome compliance headaches
Automation in fixed income: Sorting the bluster from the bleeding edge
Automation is gaining traction in fixed-income markets, but use cases are limited and progress is slow. Market participants must overcome some uniquely human problems before they fully embrace the machine.
This Week: Europe’s Mifir review, MarketAxess, FIA, and more
A summary of the latest financial technology news.
Waters Wrap: The path to generative AI is paved with solid data practices
While large language models are likely to proliferate, those that can develop a solid data infrastructure of taxonomies, ontologies, data sourcing, mapping and lineage will be the ultimate winners, Anthony says.
IMD & IRD Awards 2023 winner's interview: MarketAxess
MarketAxess won the best AI/machine learning data initiative in this year’s Inside Market Data & Inside Reference Data Awards, thanks to its CP+ bond pricing engine.
BlackRock looks to expand Aladdin through accounting, data capabilities
Accounting, data, and analytics offerings make up part of Aladdin's strategy to become everything to everyone.