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The Waters Cooler: Tidings of comfort and joy
Christmas is almost upon us. Have you been naughty or nice?
This Week: BlackRock/Preqin, Trading Technologies, FIA Tech and more
A summary of some of the past week’s financial technology news.
Breaking out of the cells: banks’ long goodbye to spreadsheets
Dealers are cutting back on their use of Excel amid tighter regulation and risk concerns.
Bank-led consortium takes aim at position reporting
Five banks, including Barclays, BNP Paribas, Goldman Sachs and HSBC, have joined forces to mitigate interpretation and implementation errors in position reporting disclosures.
Witad Awards 2024: Technology leader of the year (end-user)—Sejal Shah, BNP Paribas India Services
Sejal Shah, director and head of Global Markets IT BNP Paribas India Services, wins technology leader of the year (end-user) in the 2024 Women in Technology and Data Awards.
Witad Awards 2024: Reference data professional of the year (end-user)—Ludmilla Morgunova, BNP Paribas
Ludmilla Morgunova, Java developer on BNP Paribas’ Referential Data Platform, wins reference data professional of the year (end-user) in the 2024 Women in Technology and Data Awards.
People Moves: Etrading Software, MarketAxess, Trumid, Nasdaq, and more
A look at the past month’s people moves in the capital markets technology and data space, including Matthijs Geneste (pictured), who will head up EU regulatory data services for Etrading Software.
Buy side unconvinced of corporate bond streaming benefits
Managers see limited utility of streamed prices in the once OTC-only asset class.
Better tech brings threat of two-speed trading in fixed income
Smaller asset managers may get left behind as automation allows the big players to prosper.
Can machine learning help predict recessions? Not really
Artificial intelligence models stumble on noisy data and lack of interpretability
Ignoring ESG data simply doesn’t make business sense
There’s a brewing controversy about “woke” ESG investments. But politics aside, ESG as a dataset brings more transparency to investment decisions.
Social distancing: Putting a $ value on the ‘S’ in ESG
The ‘social’ pillar of ESG has been much overlooked and underserved in terms of reporting and accurate and available data. That’s changing.
Waters Wrap: What’s next for desktop interop?
Anthony takes a look at the desktop application interoperability space—how we got here and where he thinks it's going.
This Week: Goldman, Cboe, Microsoft, others plan new blockchain network; LSEG/OpenFin & more
A summary of the latest financial technology news.
Treasury traders remain wary about adopting algos
Yet proponents insist US government bond market is ‘ready for disruption’
Rival platforms battle to control electronic trading of CLOs
Octaura has the backing of dealers, while Kopentech is leaning into its buy-side roots
People Moves: Broadridge, Tradeweb, Ice, FCA, and more
A look at some of the key people moves from this week, including Rana Yared (pictured), who joins the board of Tradeweb as an independent director and a member of the audit committee.
Banks prepare to unleash FX swap bots
BNP Paribas, JP Morgan build execution algos to plug into platforms—but swaps liquidity needs to catch up first
This Week: ING/OpenFin, GoldenSource, Moody’s Analytics, S3/LiquidityBook & more
A summary of the latest financial technology news.
People Moves: TP Icap, ACA Group, BNP Paribas, Morningstar, and more
A look at some of the key people moves from this week, including Marie Luchet (pictured), who joins ACA Group as managing director of ESG.
If it ain’t broke, break it: Back-office tech reform may benefit front-office returns
Better data visibility across multiple systems could provide a driver for technological change in the world of post-trade.