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Market data consumers buy the same products at massively different price points
A new study finds that asset managers are paying several times more than their peers for the same services—but why? And can it be fixed? Does it need to be?
New tech disrupts traditional book-building process for institutional investors
Automation is long overdue in the book-building process for publicly listed equities. One startup hopes to bridge the gap.
Data analytics dominate M&A agenda for exchanges in 2022
While there weren’t many headline-grabbing acquisitions in 2022, the year contained a handful of deals that point to expanding trends in the exchange technology industry.
In 2022, cloud shows true potential to displace legacy data platforms
Once wary of the cloud, financial firms, their suppliers and the marketplaces where they trade are openly embracing it. And there are more signs of big tech firms accelerating buy-in by literally buying in to clients’ migration projects.
This Week: UBS/JPM/FlexTrade, Ice, QuantCube & more
A summary of the latest financial technology news.
LSEG bolsters non-cleared ambitions with Acadia deal
The exchange group plans to build ‘a clearing house for the non-cleared world’, says LCH CEO Maguire.
Waters Wrap: Big Tech, exchanges and a rapidly evolving market
Following LSEG’s partnership with Microsoft, Anthony talks with some industry participants to explore what this might mean for exchange tech going forward.
LSEG’s take on decentralized finance, data catalogs and managed data services
A number of London Stock Exchange Group’s senior business leaders spoke at the annual World Financial Information Conference, held recently in Prague. Stefan Reichenbach, John Mason, Janelle Veasey, Stuart Brown and Jason West, alongside others,…
Waters Wrap: Banks explore new avenues for cloud cooperation
As banks and asset managers move more workloads to the cloud, they’re trying to find ways to cooperate to cut costs and exert more influence over the likes of AWS, Google and Microsoft. Anthony wonders if these early efforts will yield beneficial results…
LSEG’s Refinitiv to deliver Real-Time Full Tick data on the cloud in 2023
The data vendor has 19 points of presence from where it will provide co-located access to the new managed services by Q2 2023.
People Moves: Northern Trust, Deutsche Bank, SS&C, STP Investment Services & more
A look at some of the key people moves from this week, including Michael Buzza (pictured), who becomes Northern Trust's new global head of Network Management and Market Security
Is disruption finally coming for the index business?
Regulatory developments and startups gaining some ground may—one day—threaten the incumbent providers in this space.
SEC deadline raises existential questions for US market data
This month, the commission must decide on a fee filing under its market data modernization efforts. Jo wonders how likely we are to see those efforts materialize any time soon.
Waters Wrap: Ion’s fixed income EMS & how tech development theory is changing
Some of the largest trading platform providers have embarked on major integration projects in recent years. As fintech disruption continues, Anthony says this is not a fad, but an evolutionary shift.
This Week: Ice, Cboe/Snowflake, GoldenSource, Clearwater & more
A summary of the latest financial technology news.
Financial crime vendors respond to Ukraine demand
Anti-money laundering laws and sanctions have brought complexity to banks' KYC/AML processes. Some vendors are responding by investing in their systems.
This Week: Finos, LSEG, Neptune & Genesis, Deutsche Börse & Kaiko, Ice & More
A summary of the latest financial technology news.
Waters Wrap: How the LSEG-MayStreet tie-up might change the buy/build debate
Anthony looks at some of the questions that came up from industry participants in the wake of the LSEG-MayStreet deal.
LSEG-MayStreet: From direct feeds revamp to reg tools, industry sources outline rationale for deal
The acquisition of the 10-year-old vendor will give the exchange group high-quality market data, low-latency direct feeds, and packet-capture capabilities, experts say.
Cboe completes integrations of triple acquisition, turns focus on risk and analytics
In 2020, Cboe Global Markets acquired three businesses in rapid succession. Two years later, the tech stack integrations are complete, and the now-combined entities make up the majority of the exchange’s rebranded Risk and Market Analytics Group.
People Moves: Saxo Bank, Eventus Systems, TickSmith, and more
A look at some of the key "people moves" from this week, including Barry Raskin (pictured), who joins TickSmith as head of the vendor’s data practice.
This Week: Ice, FCA, HSBC, UBS & more
A summary of the latest financial technology news.
As sanctions increase, banks struggle with growing compliance burden
Firms must get data management and compliance culture right if they really want to keep their books clean of crooks and sanctions-dodgers, and keep their reputations and bottom lines clean of regulatory fines.
Waters Wrap: Data ownership & storm clouds brewing
Thanks to technological advancement, firms are finding new ways to monetize data. While the question of “who owns the data” was never a pressing one in the past, Anthony says that there are reasons to believe that will soon change.