Emerging Technologies
Stevens Institute, Capco Lay Out Commercialization Efforts for New Artificial Exchange
The platform will initially target the HFT crowd, as well those looking to better understand market microstructure in equities.
People Moves: Liquidnet, S4, Tier1, Confluence, BNY Mellon, Finastra
A look at some of the key people moves from this week, including Simon Maughan (pictured), who joins Liquidnet as head of Trading Alpha.
FactSet Taps Ex-S&P Exec Reeve to Replace Alt Data Marketplace Head Newman
Following Newman's retirement, Reeve will take on his content products and solutions, including its Open:Factset Marketplace.
Two Former Fidessa Employees Make Push into OMS Interop Space
Two former Fidessa employees are working with Glue42, which in turn is working with Fidessa and Ion, on bringing interoperability to the OMS space.
From East to West—Investing in Europe During the Covid-19 Pandemic
This webinar explores the pain points and opportunities in European market trading, taking a closer look at how high-quality data can empower smarter analytics and trading decisions
SmartStream to Add Additional AI Capabilities to Aurora
The reconciliations specialist is also looking to expand its corporate actions offering into the buy side.
Capital Markets Post Covid-19—A Brave New World?
Every capital markets firm—regardless of size, sophistication and level of expertise—has been significantly impacted in one way or another by the Covid-19 pandemic. What started as a health crisis spread quickly to the capital markets, although it’s…
Scrutiny and Frictions Follow EMS Vendors into Fixed Income
Aggregators are facing resistance from venues and attracting the attention of regulators.
Cboe Integrates Trade Alert Into Information Solutions Business
The Chicago-based exchange has also released its first integrated solution with risk analytics provider Hanweck, which it acquired in February.
Space Exploration: How Will Banks Handle Unwanted, Costly Real Estate, Post-Covid?
Financial firms spend a lot of money on office space, but what happens to that space if more employees are working from home? Perhaps something of a WeWork for fintechs is the answer.
JP Morgan AM to Add Chinese, Japanese to Proprietary NLP Tool
The asset manager could one day make its Textual Analytics tool, which reads millions of documents to derive insights, available to the market at large.
Wavelength Podcast Ep. 197: A Look at Innovation
Benjamin Quinlan, CEO and managing partner at Quinlan & Associates discusses innovation and technology hype.
Banks Need a Hybrid Approach to Cryptography in Face of Quantum Threat
Execs from Barclays, IBM & Post-Quantum discuss why financial firms have to start preparing today for the future of hacking and quantum computing.
MSCI Uses NLP to Measure Company Innovation
The global market index firm is quantifying innovative investments and mapping them to a company’s performance.
Start-Up Brings Video Game Design to Repo Trading, Regulatory Reporting
Hudson Fintech is leveraging the entity component system architecture as it looks to bring in sell-side firms and raise seed funding.
Covid‑19 and the Cash and Liquidity Management Challenges Facing the Capital Markets
The emergence of Covid-19 and the ensuing global pandemic has had a major impact on the capital markets—especially for banks and their cash and liquidity management practices. Banks need to know whether they have sufficient liquidity on an ongoing basis…
People Moves: Genesis, FlexTrade, Tora, Nomura and CLS
A look at some of the key 'people moves' from this week, including Nick Kolba (pictured) who joins Genesis as global head of platform.
DTCC: Future of Settlement Revamp Depends on Industry Appetite
Client feedback and priorities will drive the next phase of the market structure firm's project to modernize settlement.
This Week: S&P Global/Intapp/DealCloud; Rimes; Stifel/Nasdaq & More
A summary of some of the past week's financial technology news.
Trading Technologies Unveils New Futures Market Data Feed
As the fight over market data fees in the futures market heats up, the Chicago-based trading platform provider is rolling out a new platform that provides a free view of market order flow for TT platform users.
Refinitiv Combines Two Coronavirus Eikon Applications
The data giant is enhancing its pandemic coverage, as it sees a surge in demand for data making sense of a volatile new world.
Digital Framework for Cash and Liquidity Proves its Value Under Stressed Conditions
Adopting effective digital strategies for managing cash and liquidity is vital if banks are to survive the financial chaos caused by the coronavirus pandemic, argues SmartStream Technologies' Nadeem Shamim.
AltHub, Alqami Ally to Grow Alt Data Offerings
The data distribution partnership will allow each company to reach a broader base of buy-side clients, while giving those firms access to more datasets.
BT Radianz to Add Chinese Alt Datafeeds
Initially, BT Radianz is looking for datasets that could help forecast consumer demand, such as sentiment, consumption, and transactional data.