Articles by Joanna Wright
NatWest Markets to Expand Chatbot for IRS Trade Execution
The investment bank is upgrading its chatbot in response to user demand for more capabilities.
ESG Disclosures Will be a Data Sourcing Headache for the Buy Side
The draft technical standards for the EU's updated disclosures regulation will impact most market participants, analysts say.
AI Can Drive Reconciliations Efficiency In Period of Increased Volume
As the coronavirus drives trading volumes, post-trade processing is increasingly an area of operational risk, and firms should consider automation, analyst says.
Privacy and the New Normal
Jo wonders if the coronavirus pandemic will erode the division between public and private life.
UBS’s COO: 'Hybrid Pods' Accelerate Remote Working Solutions Amid Pandemic
Beatriz Martin says the bank has about 400 of these agile development teams—which were first rolled out last year—consisting of about 2,500 people across the organization.
Four Asset Managers Explain How They Incorporate ESG Data
Execs From UBS AM, Lazard AM, DWS, and East Capital look at incorporating ESG data into their investment practices for more holistic views of risk and opportunity.
Balyasny AM's CDO: Going Quantamental with Alternative Data
Carson Boneck shares his thoughts on Balyasny's efforts to marry the best of its fundamental and quant teams.
Earn It? Burn It
Jo looks at an attack on end-to-end encryption that is winding through the US law-making process this month.
JP Morgan Investment Insulates Limeglass Start-Up Amid Coronavirus
The research start-up is growing its team and is in discussions with clients, despite Covid-19 disruption, after the bank acquired a stake.
Bloomberg: Regulation Driving Demand for ESG Activities Data
Ratings providers must update their products, as a raft of new regulation drives transparency in the sustainable investing sector.
This Week: LSEG Technology; SIX/Nasdaq; FTSE Russell/JSE; & More
A summary of some of the past week's financial technology news.
Wavelength Podcast Ep. 186: NLP and Transformer Models
Joanna Wright joins the podcast to talk about an innovation that is helping push forward the field of machine learning in the capital markets.
Transforming NLP: A Look at New Tools Being Used by Banks
The evolution of natural language processing is rapidly progressing. Jo Wright takes a look at BERT, one of the more game-changing innovations that is helping to transform the field of machine learning in the capital markets.
Swap Data Proposals Raise Existential Questions
Regulators around the world collect massive amounts of data, but Jo wonders if there’s any point to these efforts if they can’t use it?
This Week: Bloomberg/Goldman; IHS Markit/MSCI; TP Icap; and more
A summary of some of the past week's financial technology news.
Illuminate Rounds Out Baton Systems Funding with $4m Investment
This is the first investment Illuminate has made in a company offering DLT-based tech.
GLMX Looks to Sec Lending and Swaps for Electronification
The platform provider is looking at opportunities in securities lending and swaps, as it pursues expansion in Europe.
APIs: Frontier of a New Threat
APIs are becoming more important as firms digitize and adopt microservices architectures, but they come with unique security threats. By Joanna Wright
California's New Privacy Rule Will Impact Financial Institutions
The CCPA came into force on Jan 1, and while it exempts some consumer data from its scope, firms that have business data on state residents will be pulled in.