Analysis
CAT Contract May Need Amendments to Protect Personal Data
If a House bill seeking to ban the gathering of PII data passes, plan processor says it will wait for guidance from the NMS committee.
Wavelength Podcast Episode 127: Digital Reasoning’s New AI Product; A Look at the July Issue of Waters
After an investment to improve the podcast's sound quality, Anthony and James talk about Digital Reasoning's latest move and preview the next issue of Waters.
Wavelength Podcast Episode 126: Brexit Fallout; the SGX-NSE Battle Continues; Cellphone Location Data
Anthony and James hit on a wide-range of topics, from Brexit in the UK, to the SGX-NSE fight in APAC, to the Supreme Court's decision on cellphone location data in the US.
Wavelength Podcast Episode 125: Bitcoin, Ether Aren't Securities (Maybe); Privacy Issues and the Law
The SEC takes a definitive stance on the status of cryptocurrencies; the idea of privacy consistently changes with the introduction of new technologies.
Young Datasets, Inexperienced Talent Make Alt Data Challenging
The relatively nascent alternative data industry is creating challenges for asset managers, specifically when it comes to a lack of historical data and a lack of talent that can interrogate the data.
Wavelength Podcast Episode 124: Exchange Outages and Blockchain Developments
The LSE suffered a major outage this week while blockchain was very prevalent in this week's headlines.
WatersTech Spotlight: Fintech M&A
The fintech landscape has changed markedly in recent months as a result of M&A activity. Here are five of the most notable deals.
Clearing Executives Remain Skeptical on Blockchain
Senior CCP specialists say some emerging technologies have promise, but significant hurdles remain.
Nasdaq Sees Bright Future as Technology Provider
CEO Friedman said exchange's competitive advantage lies in the technology it provides to other markets.
Commissions Slump as Mifid II, Algo Trading Take Bites Out of Brokers
Data shows drop in commission costs as unbundling rules take hold, furthering decline caused by electronic execution.
SST Awards 2018: Best Data Provider to the Sell Side—SIX
Zurich-based SIX has a long history of wins across Waters’ various awards programs for its acclaimed corporate actions offering, and this year it snaps up the best data provider to the sell side category.
SST Awards 2018: Best Cloud Provider to the Sell Side—BT
For the past few years, the best cloud provider to the sell side category has been won by one company—BT—for its Radianz Cloud suite, and this year is no different.
SST Awards 2018: Best Distributed-Ledger Technology Project—R3
As far as distributed-ledger technology firms go, there has only been one that stands out for its platform built specifically for finance, and takes home the award for the best distributed-ledger technology project at the Sell-Side Technology Awards 2018…
SST Awards 2018: Best Implementation at a Sell-Side Firm—SmartStream Technologies
The best implementation award is the only category of all 32 on offer in this year’s Sell-Side Technology Awards where the winner is determined by the effectiveness of an implementation at a sell-side firm.
SST Awards 2018 Winners' Circle: SmartStream Technologies
SmartStream Technologies made a little bit of history at this year’s Sell-Side Technology Awards by winning the best implementation category for the first time. Victor Anderson chats to SmartStream’s Vincent Kilcoyne about his firm’s relationship with…
SST Awards 2018: Best Infrastructure Provider to the Sell Side—Avelacom
Two years ago, Avelacom was a name that many in the capital markets community were not familiar with. But the Moscow-headquartered company has grown rapidly and is this year’s recipient of the best infrastructure provider to the sell side category in…
SST Awards 2018: Best Outsourcing Provider to the Sell Side—Broadridge Financial Solutions
For the third year in a row, Broadridge has won the best outsourcing provider to the sell side category in the Sell-Side Technology Awards.
SST Awards 2018: Best Reporting Platform or Services for the Sell Side—AxiomSL
AxiomSL has been a champion of regulatory technology for a number of years with its approach to managing data and tracking data lineage. This year, its hard work and underlying technologies have been focused on its efforts to resolve the Comprehensive…
SST Awards 2018: Best Sell-Side Analytics Product—NEX TriOptima
Stricter regulatory capital rules and accounting developments are forcing firms to adopt new analytics solutions that are more efficient than their predecessors. TriOptima, a NEX Group company, claims this year’s best sell-side analytics product award,…
SST Awards 2018: Best Sell-Side Back-Office Platform—Murex
Risk management and processing solutions provider Murex is the first to bag this award, one of the new categories in this year’s Sell-Side Technology Awards.