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Getting Smarter About Serving Risk Management Needs
Risk modeling, separation of finance and risk departments become concerns for risk data management
IBM Announces Blockchain-As-A-Service for Developers
Tech giant is latest firm to throw its hat in the distributed ledger ring.
IBM Announces Blockchain-As-A-Service for Developers
Tech giant is latest firm to throw its hat in the distributed ledger ring.
Waters Wavelength Podcast Episode 4: Flash Crash, MiFID II, Blockchain on the Buy Side, DMMs
Dan and Anthony touch on eight different stories that broke this week in the fintech world.
Panelists: Finance, Risk Need to be Brought Together to Improve Data Management Processes
And who should own the data? Is it possible to have one person be responsible for all of that information?
BNY Mellon Expands Scope of Risk Platform
Firm plans to add credit and market risk data
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2015: Best Buy-Side Risk Management Initiative Over the Last 12 Months—IBM
In a year that has witnessed an impressive streak of consolidation and acquisition, there are surely a few out there still wistfully longing for the days when this winner was known as Algorithmics. IBM bought the provider in 2011 for $387 million, well…
Sales Vet Miller Joins USAM
Miller has previously served alongside USAM founder Feargal O'Sullivan at NYSE Technologies and Tervela.
The Internet of Things and the Speed of Evolution
The Internet of Things is going to have a profound effect on technology.
Deutsche Bank to Launch Tech Innovation Labs
German bank announces the opening of three innovation labs around the world.
IBM Interested in Blockchain Technology, According to Report
Reuters says technology giant is interested in using blockchain for major currencies.
SmartStream Acquires Algorithmics Collateral Assets From IBM
Algorithmics Collateral will be rebranded TLM Collateral Management.
Comment: SS&C Acquires Advent as Another Vendor Bites the Dust
SS&C's acquisition of Advent has turned it into one of the industry's foremost buy-side technology shops.
Gartner Hires Data Expert
Adam Ronthal, a big data product marketing executive at IBM, has joined the consultancy as an analyst
2014 Review: As Volumes Intensify, Data Search Tools Get Smart
According to Interactive Data’s chief information officer Alex Goor, speaking at Inside Market Data’s Asia Pacific Financial Information Conference, about 90 percent of current data levels were created within the last two years. In the financial sector,…
RBC Revises Transaction Data Processes
With internal reorganization of data processes and new messaging and identification processes and technology, the firm is better prepared to incorporate new data as it arrives
Interactive Data Lures Vendor Vets Babarinde, Burtsal for EMEA Sales
Interactive Data has hired data industry veterans Olakunle Babarinde and Richard Burtsal as head of sales for real-time feeds and 7Ticks EMEA, and sales manager for trading solutions, respectively.
ICBC Taps IBM's Active-Active for DR
Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) will employ IBM's mainframe computing solution Active-Active to provide "near-continuous" availability and disaster recovery (DR) in an effort to enhance its business continuity processes.
9W Search Integrates IBM's Watson for Natural-Language Queries
Financial search engine provider 9W Search is developing a new component of its web-based financial information search platform that will leverage IBM's Watson artificial intelligence supercomputer to allow investors to query 9W's structured and…
Exchanges, FINRA Reveal CAT Operator Shortlist
US self-regulatory organizations, including US exchanges and regulator FINRA, have selected six potential candidates for the role of processor of the US consolidated audit trail (CAT), which will capture all trades, quotes, cancellations and other…
Bloomberg Names Bigley Global CMO
Bloomberg has promoted Deirdre Bigley to the role of global chief marketing officer, responsible for overseeing international marketing strategy for the vendor's products and services.
NAFIS 2014: Cloud's Security Concerns Continue to Outweigh Cost Savings
Firms can deliver significant cost savings by moving their data infrastructures into the cloud, but concerns over security--as well as mistrust of services providers for whom capital markets are not their primary focus--are holding back migration,…
How Many Utilities Does the Industry Need?
The industry will not see the full benefits of the utility model if it becomes spread thinly across a multitude of rival offerings
Hill to Lead SimCorp in UK, Ireland, Middle East
Peter Hill has replaced Klaus Andersen as managing director for the UK, Ireland and the Middle East