Emerging Technologies
OneMarketData Survey: Growing Interest for Data Services in the Cloud
There is growing interest across the financial industry in leveraging cloud computing technology for data-intensive processes such as back-testing, quantitative research and transaction cost analysis, though adoption of cloud technology to support…
S&P Cap IQ Expands ‘Regional Leaders' for Asia Focus
S&P Capital IQ has created three new positions across the Asia-Pacific region and appointed "regional market leaders" to serve as senior representatives for the vendor and its entire product line while providing local market expertise in specific…
APFIC Panelists: Big Data Presents Big Challenges in Asia
Big Data remains a big challenge for financial firms to derive value from around the world, but may prove an even bigger challenge in Asia-Pacific as a result of local idiosyncrasies that could make it harder to take advantage of Big Data analysis,…
APFIC Panel: In Buy-vs-Build Debate, Vendor Value is Key
Data sourcing professionals at financial firms want to see vendors focus less on entrenching themselves via long-term deals to retain business and more on winning and earning business through innovation and competitive pricing─though vendors say they…
Panel: Grasp Opportunities of Regulatory Complexities
The raft of current and upcoming regulations is creating opportunities as well as challenges for trading and investment firms in the Asia-Pacific region, though many outside of the largest firms are still not prepared for the data complexities and…
Banks, Providers Failing to Innovate on Data, Says APFIC End-User Panel
Neither end-user firms nor vendors are doing enough to innovate their way out of budgetary woes towards growth, with internal cultures contributing to stagnation by not fostering creative ideas, said a panel of consumer firms at the Asia Pacific…
APFIC Keynote: Regulations Require Standards Collaboration
The financial industry must collaborate on standards and standardized processes if it is to successfully manage the challenges and costs of compliance with the data aspects of the current flood of new regulations─and get ahead of future rules─said Nick…
Kim Hammonds Replaces Anthony McCarthy as Deutsche Bank's CIO
Deutsche Bank has named Kim Hammonds as its chief information officer and global co-head of group technology & operations (GTO).
First Call, CCBN Founder Parker Named EidoSearch Chairman
Jeff Parker, founder of First Call and CCBN StreetEvents, and a former chairman and chief executive of Thomson Financial, has joined Toronto-based pattern recognition and analytics provider EidoSearch as chairman of its board, to help guide the vendor to…
Alpha Omega Makes Global Launch of Post-Trade Solution
Alpha Omega Financial Systems, a post-trade technology provider based in San Francisco, has globally launched FIXAffirm, a post-trade solution based on the industry standard FIX protocol.
Citi to Mix Retail and Institutional Flow in Mexico
With its new Mexican order facilitation platform, Retail Price Improvement, Citi will provide full penny price improvement to retail investors, and ultimately institutional investors, on the Bolsa Mexicana de Valores (BMV).
Chilton Announces Surprise Departure from CFTC
Bart Chilton, one of the most senior figures in the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), has announced that he will leave the regulator at the end of his term as commissioner.
Newedge UK to Partner with GMEX MTF
French broker Newedge has joined forces with Global Markets Exchange Group International (GMEX Group), a market operator, consultancy, and technology provider.
DataContent's Harris Talks China at WFIC Part 2
Following a panel discussion on business inside China at the World Financial Information Conference in Lisbon, Keiren Harris, Hong Kong-based director of market data consultancy DataContent speaks to IMD about the types of data in demand in China, and…
Markit Taps former UBS CIO Trogni for Solutions
Michele Trogni, former group chief information officer at UBS, has joined data provider Markit in New York as managing director and global head of the vendor's solutions business (which is co-headed by Daniel Simpson, who joined Markit as a result of its…
Brownstone Investment Group Taps Martines for Munis Trading
The fixed income investment firm has hired Matthew Martines as new managing director for its municipal trading and electronic market-making units.
Liquity Names Director of Operations and Technology
Private equity marketplace Liquity has appointed Julian Jaffe director of operations and technology to design and pilot the company’s technology strategy.
Opening Cross: Things That Go Bump in the Night
The combination of Halloween and Mercury in retrograde is creating some haunting technical glitches and cost challenges for the data industry.
Thomson Reuters to Retire 3000 Xtra
Thomson Reuters has notified customers that it plans to withdraw support for its Reuters 3000 Xtra legacy market data desktop terminal after Dec. 31, 2013, and has begun the process of decommissioning the platform’s corresponding services and local…
Tradeweb Revamps Retail Fixed Income With BondDesk Buy
Tradeweb Markets, a builder and operator of fixed income and derivatives marketplaces, has completed the acquisition of BondDesk Group, a provider of retail fixed income wealth management and trading technology, which Tradeweb purchased in September.
Mongolia's ResCap Securities Live on NRI/Omnesys/GII Platform
Nomura Research Institute's Financial Technologies India (NRI FT India) division has partnered with Omnesys Technologies and Global Investment Initiative (GII) to build and modernize financial and trading infrastructure in the Mongolian marketplace via a…
BATS Enlists Interactive Data for Low-Cost Data Terminals
US exchange operator BATS Global Markets has launched two new desktop data and analytics workstations, developed in conjunction with Interactive Data and based on the vendor's own terminal products, utilizing BATS' free-of-charge equities data.
November 2013: Another Rod for Our Own backs
Almost seven years ago to the day, when I was still editor of Buy-Side Technology (BST), I wrote in one of my editor's letters that by launching the BST Awards, we had inadvertently made a rod for our own backs ─ while the awards represented a move in…
South African CSDs Create Collateral Management Industry Forum
South African central securities depository (CSD) Strate, and Deutsche Börse’s Clearstream international CSD have announced the creation of a Collateral Management Industry Forum for the South African financial market.