Emerging Technologies
Nordea Life & Pension Selects SimCorp amid Rebrand
Denmark's third-largest commercial pension fund is being rebranded as Velliv.
Digital Reasoning Readies Public Release of Model-Training Platform
To solve the old needle-in-a-haystack problem, Digital Reasoning is developing a tool dubbed Cognition to improve the training process for machine-learning models.
Fenergo Taps Ex-RBC Asset Manager Specialist to Lead New Buy-Side Unit
O'Neill will be responsible for growing takeup of the vendor's compliance and onboarding technologies among buy-side firms.
Money.Net Taps OpenFin to Increase Desktop Exposure
By making its content available via OpenFin's container, Money.Net will gain access to a broader potential audience of OpenFin clients.
Ipushpull Lands Ex-Goldman Sachs CIO Sutcliffe as Advisor
Sutcliffe says his experience can help Ipushpull grow to a scale where it can meet the needs of much larger clients
Deutsche Bank CIO Moves to CBA
He will take charge of the bank’s future technology, data and operations strategy.
TOFIS Panel: Data Linkages Pose Key Challenges to Alt Data Use
Max Bowie reports from Toronto on Canadian firms' opinions of the challenges associated with using alternative data.
Wavelength Podcast Episode 126: Brexit Fallout; the SGX-NSE Battle Continues; Cellphone Location Data
Anthony and James hit on a wide-range of topics, from Brexit in the UK, to the SGX-NSE fight in APAC, to the Supreme Court's decision on cellphone location data in the US.
Bloomberg Eyes Amsterdam for Trading and Reporting Platforms
The information and trading technology giant has registered a Netherlands-based entity for its trading platform.
IBM Rolls Out Upgrades for Watson Financial Services Portfolio
IBM has enhanced its regtech suite of services, including the integration of Armanta’s platform after the May acquisition.
Burton-Taylor: Regulation-Driven Data Spend to Grow, But Desktops Threaten Resurgence
Burton-Taylor's annual sentiment survey shows record levels of optimism in some areas for 2018 with slight contractions next year. Max Bowie reports on the trends reported by survey respondents.
Orient Express: Accelerating the Rise of the CDO in Asia
Wei-Shen Wong documents the rise of Asia-based chief data officers, and their place in the structure of both local and global firms.
June 2018: It’s Not About Winning, It’s About Compliance
Do you know your APA from your CDO? Max summarizes the topics covered in this month's issue of Inside Data Management.
Acquisition of the Year: Blackstone
IMD/IRD Awards 2018
Best Evaluated Prices Service Provider: Bloomberg
IMD/IRD Awards 2018
Best Managed Service for Reference Data: Rimes
IMD/IRD Awards 2018
Best Corporate Actions Data Provider: SIX
IMD/IRD Awards 2018
Best Data Analytics Provider: FactSet
IMD/IRD Awards 2018
Best Research Provider: Fitch Solutions
IMD/IRD Awards 2018
Contract Win of the Year: Bloomberg
IMD/IRD Awards 2018
Senior SEC Staffer Says Bitcoin, Ether Are Not Securities
Digital currencies themselves do not qualify as investment contracts, regulator says, but could when packaged.
Wavelength Podcast Episode 125: Bitcoin, Ether Aren't Securities (Maybe); Privacy Issues and the Law
The SEC takes a definitive stance on the status of cryptocurrencies; the idea of privacy consistently changes with the introduction of new technologies.
Data Vet Mendez Joins ‘Data Wrangler’ Crux
Mendez has spent much of his career working at - and consulting to - buy-side and sell-side firms.
Young Datasets, Inexperienced Talent Make Alt Data Challenging
The relatively nascent alternative data industry is creating challenges for asset managers, specifically when it comes to a lack of historical data and a lack of talent that can interrogate the data.