Data Management
Systematic or Discretionary: Point72’s Granade Says Lines Are Blurring
At Waters USA, the chief market intelligence officer of hedge fund Point72 discussed how tech and data are disrupting traditional ideas about investing.
Nice Actimize to Add More Visualization, Machine Learning to Surveillance Platform
Planned upgrades for 2020 include more data on graphs and new machine learning models.
RBC Capital Markets Seeks Analytics Vendors
The investment bank is looking to partner with companies like Pyramid Analytics for better insight.
Bank of America Using Gamer Tech to Improve Trader Experience
As part of its digitization efforts, the bank is looking to video game technology to allow traders to consume more information.
Turicode Targets Financial Markets in Asia
The vendor's software allows firms to train machine-learning models to better recognize and extract the data in documents.
Exegy Gets Expanded CAT Role Under Finra
The vendor will be providing more data capture and processing services for the CAT than when originally selected as part of Thesys Technologies' failed CAT offering.
Dun & Bradstreet To Introduce Cyber Risk Solutions in 2020
In addition to expanding into cyber risk, the company plans to enhance its focus on ESG and ultimate beneficial ownership (UBO) data.
Listen Up: How Tech is Turning Voice into a Valuable Dataset
Voice is arguably one of the most interesting—yet largely untapped—alternative datasets in existence today.
The Miseducation of Alternative Data
Wei-Shen Wong wonders whether asset managers really understand what they mean when they talk about alternative data.
Bringing an ‘Edge’ to the South Side
Max reports on how one company’s mission to exploit the trend of Edge Computing is not only improving latency and connectivity, but also has the potential to improve low-income neighborhoods and change lives.
UBS Cuts Outsourced Tech Jobs
The investment bank has eliminated thousands of roles and revamped its approach to outsourcing over the last two years.
Quandl Releases New E-Commerce Dataset Ahead of Holidays
Nasdaq's alt data provider hopes its new ECI dataset will offer exclusive advantages to investors, analysts, and companies themselves.
The Rise of the Algo Wheel
An examination as to how the buy side is embracing algo wheels and where the challenges still remain.
Bloomberg LP’s Fate Lies in Hands of Democratic Voters
With Bloomberg founder Michael Bloomberg confirming a run for president, Max ponders the possible outcomes if the data giant goes up for sale.
Wavelength Podcast Ep. 173: Hadoop, Data Warehousing
MarkLogic's CTO, Giles Nelson, discusses some of the pressing data challenging facing the industry.
LSEG Building New Algo-Testing Tool
The exchange group is developing new regtech products while looking to move these offerings to the cloud in 2020.
Due North: Inside TMX Group's Bold Data Audit Overhaul
Toronto's TMX Group is looking to revolutionize the way that it conducts data audits with users. While the early feedback is positive, will others follow suit?
Asset Managers Likely Overestimating Their Alt Data Capabilities
UBS Asset Management’s CDO & Element22's founder look at some of the challenges facing the alt data space.
The API Economy’s Existential Crisis
Has the so-called ‘API economy’ been over-hyped, or is there value in recalibrating an open API strategy? WatersTechnology examines.
Apteo Preps Alt Data Platform Expansion
The startup will use a new investment round to fund the addition of new datasets and staff as it brings its platform to market.
Bad Clocks Block FX Best-Ex
To get a good deal in fast-moving FX markets, buy-side firms need to know the time. Some of them don’t.
Banks Team Up for “Ion Replacement” Project
Consortium weighs building fixed-income software in potential threat to Ion, the dominant vendor