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BNY Mellon Takes a New Tack to Digital Transformation
The custodian is trying to make digitization core to all the organization's activities, its innovation head says.
This Week: AWS Quantum, Nomura/Pico, Broadridge, Instinet
A summary of some of the past week's financial technology news.
Nice Actimize to Add More Visualization, Machine Learning to Surveillance Platform
Planned upgrades for 2020 include more data on graphs and new machine learning models.
RBC Capital Markets Seeks Analytics Vendors
The investment bank is looking to partner with companies like Pyramid Analytics for better insight.
APIs to Help with Regulatory Differences Over Dark Trading
Technologists urged to adopt a more flexible plug-and-play approach using APIs, as concerns grow about the FCA and Esma's differing attitudes toward dark trading.
New York Fed Eyes Machine Learning to Predict Misreporting
The regulator's goal is to decrease the back and forth during reporting and predict misreporting.
AFTAs 2019: All the Winners and Why They Won
The winners of this year's American Financial Technology Awards were announced on the evening of December 3 in New York.
Bank of America Using Gamer Tech to Improve Trader Experience
As part of its digitization efforts, the bank is looking to video game technology to allow traders to consume more information.
Turicode Targets Financial Markets in Asia
The vendor's software allows firms to train machine-learning models to better recognize and extract the data in documents.
Exegy Gets Expanded CAT Role Under Finra
The vendor will be providing more data capture and processing services for the CAT than when originally selected as part of Thesys Technologies' failed CAT offering.
Dun & Bradstreet To Introduce Cyber Risk Solutions in 2020
In addition to expanding into cyber risk, the company plans to enhance its focus on ESG and ultimate beneficial ownership (UBO) data.
UBS Cuts Outsourced Tech Jobs
The investment bank has eliminated thousands of roles and revamped its approach to outsourcing over the last two years.
Quandl Releases New E-Commerce Dataset Ahead of Holidays
Nasdaq's alt data provider hopes its new ECI dataset will offer exclusive advantages to investors, analysts, and companies themselves.
Avelacom Adds Multi-Cloud Connectivity for Crypto Traders
Direct links set up in each location “jump” from points-of-presence to a cloud in under a millisecond.
This Week: Goldman/Finos; JP Morgan/Baton; Caixa AM; IHS Markit
Catch up on some of the past week's financial technology news.
People Moves: Finastra, Luminex, Itarle, West Highland & More
A look at some of the key "people moves" over the last week, including Lisa Fiondella (pictured), who joins Finastra.
Google Cloud Platform Bends to Regulation at SLA Level
The company has taken a tailored approach to outsourcing contracts as increased scrutiny demands portability and audit rights from cloud service providers.
LSEG Building New Algo-Testing Tool
The exchange group is developing new regtech products while looking to move these offerings to the cloud in 2020.
Fundament Expanding Tokenized German Real Estate Offering
For it's real estate token, 90% of investment is coming from institutional firms.
Universal-Investment Building Amazon-Style Offering For Funds
The Frankfurt-based firm still has to get regulatory approval for the blockchain project, but aims to start beta testing next year.
Asset Managers Likely Overestimating Their Alt Data Capabilities
UBS Asset Management’s CDO & Element22's founder look at some of the challenges facing the alt data space.
Apteo Preps Alt Data Platform Expansion
The startup will use a new investment round to fund the addition of new datasets and staff as it brings its platform to market.
People Moves: Refinitiv, Qontigo, GAM, OSTC, Outset Global
A look at some of the key "people moves" this week, including Stephan Flagel (pictured), who joins Qontigo.
AFME Calls for pan-European Crypto Asset Taxonomy
The industry body has urged EU lawmakers and stakeholders to become leaders in delivering a common regulatory framework for digital assets.