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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…
The Great Wall: Fintech in China
The Chinese market is heavily retail driven, but innovation in the peer-to peer lending sector is likely to influence the development of institutional banking and capital markets.
Data Management: Regulation, Problems and Solutions for the Buy Side
Regulators are looking for evidence of good processes and procedures around data within the firms that fall under their jurisdiction, according to panelists at RIMES Technologies’ annual Data Governance Conference. By David Dawkins
Legacy Systems: Mission Impossible or Mission Unnecessary?
How do you solve a problem like legacy technology? Capital markets firms are constantly plagued by issues arising from or associated with technology that is no longer fit for purpose, leading to security, compliance and competitive risk.
Eternally Internal: WH Trading CTO Mike Madigan
Mike Madigan has spent nearly 15 years at Chicago-based WH Trading, building the proprietary trading firm’s technology from the ground up.
Algo Testing Under the Regulatory Microscope
Mifid II will present the first regulatory framework designed specifically to regulate and monitor algorithmic trading functions within the EU.
Trading Desks' Latest Concern: Data Support
Front offices are taking more notice of reference data management operations as the foundation for their decisions, driving data professionals to reconsider their tactics
Finding Strategic Value in BCBS 239
Principles-based regulation goes live for systemically important firms
More Flesh to the Bone of AnaCredit
ECB releases draft of regulation, but questions remain
A Victory for Transparency
DTCC welcomes repeal of Dodd-Frank indemnification provisions
Data Governance Planning Sees Tension Over Redundant Sourcing
Data governance professionals are increasingly of two minds about whether governance is helped or hindered by using multiple data sources and systems