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AxeTrading To Roll Out More Automation for Fixed Income Platform
Vendor integrates open source stream processing software Apache Kafka for real-time event data.
People Moves: Google, Sustainalytics, IHS Markit, SteelEye, FeedStock
A look at some of the key people moves from this week, including Derek White (pictured), who has been appointed vice president of global financial services at Google.
This Week: CME, Katana/IHS Markit, S&P, SmartStream, Causality Link & More
A summary of some of the past week’s technology news
Bank Execs: Covid’s Tech Challenges Handed ‘Big Wins’ to Automation, AI
Emerging tech is proving its worth since the Covid-19 outbreak, and are swaying skeptics towards even greater adoption, panelists said.
ASX Presses Forward with DataSphere Buildout
The initiative's aim is to capture more of the exchange's internal data to commercialize that useful information for the investment community.
Morgan Stanley and EPAM Systems Contribute to Finos Open Source Movement
Morgan's Morphir offering is a transparency and efficiency tool for both users and developers; EPAM's GLUE is aimed at the buy side.
Dutch Regulator Seeks to ‘Level Playing Field’ for Vendors & Venues
AFM suggests some liquidity aggregators should be classified as organized trading facilities.
How Schroders is Bypassing the Noise in News Sentiment to Identify Credit Risk
The UK asset manager is using Owlin's media analytics platform to identify negative news sentiment linked to credit risk.
FactSet Close to Debuting Cloud Ticker Plant
The vendor says it will be the first major data provider to deliver a ticker plant running completely in the cloud.
Xenomorph Building New Module To Reduce Duplicated Data Requests
The new module will be aimed at anyone who is charged for data from external vendors and needs to track data consumption across their organization.
Synechron Aims to Normalize ESG Ratings
The company is launching a new workbench in Q4, along with other prototypes and new accelerators.
Integral Goes Live with New UX for FX Platform
The vendor’s seventh generation of its single-dealer platform is built on HTML5 to allow for more customization.
People Moves: Northern Trust, Solve Advisors, Alerian, Bedford Row Capital, Aite Group, Gresham Technologies
A look at some of the key "people moves" from this week, including Jane Western (pictured) who has been appointed chief operating officer (COO) at Northern Trust.
This Week: IHS Markit, SGX/HSBC, LedgerX, TNS, TraditionData and more
A summary of some of the past week's financial technology news.
EKG Foundation Preps Industry Consultation, Touts Benefits of Knowledge Graphs for Capital Markets
EKGs will allow financial firms to take advantage of new and existing datasets to serve purposes from upselling, AML and KYC, and regulatory reporting.
ACA Compliance to Make Flagship Platform More Customizable
ComplianceAlpha is a compliance and risk management platform that also provides trade surveillance and cybersecurity capabilities.
Essentia Analytics Measures PM Performance Against Peers With New Tool
The new feature, which is currently undergoing beta testing, is expected to launch in Q4 2020.
LiquidityBook to Roll Out Trade-Matching Engine
The vendor also has plans to expand further into the institutional space with two additional rollouts in 2021.
European Commission Picks FactSet for Risk Data
The EU authority is buying three datasets from the vendor, which it will use to track supply chain risk in the single market.
Refinitiv Labs Leverages NLP to Track Covid-19 Company News
The company's news tracker, available on the Macro Vitals app, uses language models to classify reports on specific companies.
People Moves: BNP Paribas, CIA Omnigage, Capco, IHS Markit, EOSE Data
A look at some of the key "people moves" from this week, including Sarah Wang (pictured), who has been appointed head of structuring Americas at BNP Paribas.
This Week: SGX/Cassini, UBS/GitLab, QuantConnect & Snowflake
A look at some of the past week's financial technology news.
Eventus Systems to Add ML-Driven Trader Profile Feature to Validus
The new functionality will help to give context to market manipulation alerts.
EOSE Preps Bespoke Data Sourcing Service for Financial Firms
The move is in response to inbound demand from firms seeking hard-to-find datasets.