Emerging Technologies
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.
People Moves: BNP Paribas, Pico, Ideal Prediction, Causality Link, JonesTrading and SS&C
A look at some of the key "people moves" from this week, including Florence Porchet (pictured) who joins BNP Paribas as head of CIB Latin America.
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.
This Week: MEMX, Sifma, Bloomberg, State Street, Digiterre, Infosys
A summary of some of the past week’s financial technology news.
CME Group to Scale Back Regulatory Reporting Business
The exchange group is closing several of its regulatory reporting businesses following a review finding they no longer align with its strategic direction.
SmartStream’s Haytham Kaddoura on Lockdown, AI and Managed Services
SmartStream’s CEO chats to Victor Anderson about Covid-19, infusing AI technology across the firm's product range, and the need for faster and more accurate liquidity management tools.
IHS Markit Rolls Out New Buy-Side Derivatives Risk Modeling Platform
The product combines emerging technologies to offer speed, scale, and new perspectives on credit spreads and portfolio performance by overlaying financial data with alt data.
BlackRock’s Head of Sustainable Research: Covid-19 Could Bring Green Recovery
The ESG space is gaining attention as asset managers try to navigate today's volatile markets. Andre Bertolotti believes this to be more than fad.
Start-up Fund Manager Hunts for ‘Joy’ During Pandemic
Infusive Asset Management is blending traditional and alternative datasets to find companies and services that bring “joy” to consumers.
Simm May Come with a Side Benefit—A Common Data Standard
Buy-side firms using AcadiaSoft for Simm calculations must adopt the ORE XML data format.
People Moves: ISDA, ASX, Eventus Systems and CLS
A look at some of the key "people moves" from this week, including Keith Tippell (pictured) who joins CLS as head of product.
Privacy and the New Normal
Jo wonders if the coronavirus pandemic will erode the division between public and private life.
TRG Adds Contract Usage Rights Data to FITS Inventory Platform
The new rights management capability allows firms to manage compliance with the terms of their data contracts in the same system they use to manage their data inventory and costs.