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Firms Strive To Channel Data Into Intelligent Insights
Providers and consultants describe an 'evolution' of stored raw data into prescriptive 'intelligence'
MiFID II is Getting Personal
Sensitive personal information about traders and decision-makers must be forwarded to regulators, leaving the industry seeing red
Open to Open Source
The benefits of using open-source software are too great to ignore for financial firms.
Machine Learning's Many Tentacles
Artificial intelligence is being applied in numerous functions used in financial services data management
Aberdeen's Iain Plunkett: Transformation Through Technology
Aberdeen Asset Management's new group CTO/COO discusses using technology as a lever for transformation.
Reg AT: A Source (Code) of Contention
Regulation Automated Trading was created to protect market integrity and update the CFTC’s rules as algorithmic trading proliferates. There are many areas where there’s consensus agreement as to the benefits of this proposed regulation, but Anthony…
Adequately Agile: Capital Markets Firms Embrace Agile Methodology
While the Agile software development methodology has been around since the mid-90s, it’s really only been in the last few years that capital markets firms have started to embrace various aspects of its Manifesto.
Grappling with Vendor Risk Rules
Vendors in the financial services industry rarely make the headlines unless the news is bad. And in 2015, the news was often catastrophically bad. By Steve Marlin
London's Fintech Start-Ups Mature
Regulatory burdens are driving development in early stage business sector
Getting Smarter About Serving Risk Management Needs
Risk modeling, separation of finance and risk departments become concerns for risk data management
Machine Learning: Hype vs. Reality
Waters takes an in-depth look at advancements made in this field of artificial intelligence and where there's still room for advancement.
The Educator: Georgette Kiser, The Carlyle Group
Georgette Kiser learned early in her career the importance of understanding the people she builds solutions and platforms for.
Fixed Income: Electronic Evolution
The historic liquidity issues plaguing the fixed-income market have been recognized for some time and a number of trading platforms have been launched to facilitate trading, particularly within the secondary bond market.
Startups Accelerate: A Look at How the Innovation Space is Changing
Innovation doesn’t always come naturally to capital markets firms.
Dawn of the Wearables
As we enter the latter half of this decade, wearable devices will continue to evolve in sectors such as healthcare and wellness.
Not Just Another ID in a Database
ISIN Controversy Rises Again in Europe
Data Disruption?
Could MiFIR disrupt the commercial models of reference data vendors?
Looking For An API Standard
Application programming interfaces, long popular for accessing data, are attracting attention for standardization. What can be done, however, is still questionable
Star-Spangled Exchanges: IT Projects in 2016
As new exchanges enter the market, established bourses need to evolve in order to survive.
Fixed-Income Liquidity: An Alternative FIX
Numerous market participants have responded to the problem of shallow liquidity in fixed-income markets with the launch of new trading platforms, but without any tangible success.
Risky Alternative: Solving Enterprise Risk for Alternative Investments
As institutional investors increase their allocations to alternative investments, they’re finding that they need to improve their analytical capabilities when it comes to monitoring enterprise risk.
Toward Mobility: Building More Than a Scaled-Down Desktop Environment
The quest for connectivity between the working world and the digital experience.
Won't Back Down: SEC CIO Pamela Dyson
Dyson discusses the lessons learned after working nearly three decades in the federal government.
Loans: Scratching and Clawing to Progress
A revamped approach to the sometimes-dysfunctional sociology and technology that govern the syndicated loans and collateralized loan obligation markets is now in thrall. Learning from previous Herculean efforts, incremental steps are now realizing…