Mizuho Securities
Banks must loosen up on ChatGPT use – risk chiefs
’Shadow use’ and inability to attract new hires mean restricting access to GPTs is untenable
Mizuho Finds New Ways to “Activate” its Data Using AI
The Japanese bank has already automated handwritten form processing and is experimenting with AI to make use of its unstructured data.
Academia Digs Into Data Through Industry Partnerships
Firms are pushing their university programs past the traditional internship structure, embedding students and researchers to work on current use cases to deliver solutions to real-life problems. Jamie Hyman reports.
The New Guard: Ryusuke Yokoyama, JPX
Ryusuke Yokoyama sits down with Wei-Shen Wong to discuss his three-decade career at the TSE and JPX, how the exchange is looking to help the industry improve its settlement cycles and how the company is experimenting with blockchain and AI technologies…
Japanese Securities Firms Consider Taxonomy
The data taxonomy model could ease regulatory compliance pain for securities firms in Japan.
Natural Language Processing: An Inside Look at How NLP is Used in the Capital Markets
Waters examines how natural language processing and natural language generation tools are being used on Wall Street
Golden Copy: Risk Data Nuances ... And Déjà Vu
Could BCBS risk capital framework changes prove useful for risk data management?
Getting Smarter About Serving Risk Management Needs
Risk modeling, separation of finance and risk departments become concerns for risk data management
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?
Mizuho Securities USA Appoints Eric Shenker as Head of US Equity Trading
Subsidiary of Japanese banking group seeks to bolster US equities presence.
Japan Unconvinced of Big Data’s Potential
Firms still waiting for 'eureka' moment on Big Data's value in capital markets.
DirectFN Signs Five for Decypha Market Intelligence App
Mizuho, Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank, Riyad Capital──the investment arm of Saudi Arabia's Riyad Bank──and Dubai-based trading firms Tharwa Capital and Al Mal Capital have rolled out Dubai-based data vendor DirectFN's Decypha browser-based market…
Mizuho Gains Data Processing Capability and Savings on TimeScape
Mizuho Securities USA, the US broker-dealer arm of the Japanese firm, can sort identifier data better and faster since adopting Xenomorph's TimeScape system in February
Further Fatca Hurdles
With 12 months left to prepare reporting capabilities for the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, entity classification is presenting serious challenges, and the effect of intergovernmental agreements has not become clear, writes Nicholas Hamilton
Mizuho Exec: "Asia Has Opportunity To Create Uniform Approach to Fatca"
The different approaches Asian countries have so far adopted towards the US anti-tax evasion regulation could cause operational complexity for firms in the region, but the postponement of the regulation has created a chance to agree on a consistent…
SS&C Launches GoTrade+
The technology is for post-trade activities of OTC and listed derivatives, among other securities.
Asian Markets Confront Data Centralization Issue
Financial firms and their service providers look for ways to strike a balance between centralization and localization of reference data to attain benefits of centralizing despite barriers of local market differences in data
Tokyo Diary 4
Foreign data vendors should heed centralization challenges when trying to enter the Japanese market
