Asia-Pacific
Four Asset Managers Explain How They Incorporate ESG Data
Execs From UBS AM, Lazard AM, DWS, and East Capital look at incorporating ESG data into their investment practices for more holistic views of risk and opportunity.
Deutsche Bank Turns Attention to Production Engineering
DB's Stuart Gurr says past automation efforts have helped the bank weather the Covid outbreak, highlighting the need for further automation.
Geolocation Data Spotlights Covid Recovery
Hedge funds are using geolocation data to both spot signs of a pandemic recovery and to see its ripple-effect damages.
Solace Preps Event Portal for Launch
The event-driven application tool will help firms discover, create, share, and manage events.
Game On: Can the Video Game Industry Teach Banks Something About Visualization?
Capital markets firms are continually looking for new ways to package and visualize a rising tide of information. It turns out there’s another industry looking to handle the same challenge—the video game industry.
People Moves: Transcend, Tourmaline Partners, Vela, TickTrade and Citco
A look at the key people moves from this week.
LEI on the Edge: What Needs to Happen for Wider Adoption?
The financial industry is losing faith in the LEI initiative as regulatory mandates remain patchy, but some see hope in SFTR’s unique-issuer LEI. By Mariella Reason
Nomura’s Head of Digital Warns of AI’s Predictive Limitations
The investment bank’s deputy chief digital officer says machines cannot predict markets, as the bank consolidates trading operations and builds an AI trading platform for fixed income and FX.
BlackRock and UBS Seek Partnerships to Expand in China
Relationships with Chinese banks and asset managers will help global firms to better develop and distribute products to investors in the country.
Wells Fargo Exec: Banks Struggle To Feed Hungry AI
Vast amounts of data and processing could hinder exploitation of emerging tech, says Ravi Radhakrishnan as it partners with MIT-IBM Research lab.
EDM Council Forms Data Women’s Group
The new interest group will help provide collaboration, networking, and mentoring opportunities for women seeking to advance their careers in the data industry.
People Moves: Apteo, Eka, Tier-1, SEC, CGQ, MEMX
A look at some of the key people moves from the last week, including James Uzzalino, who joins Apteo.
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.
This Week: Goldman/Finos; JP Morgan/Baton; Caixa AM; IHS Markit
Catch up on some of the past week's financial technology news.
Deutsche Bank's Bezuidenhout Explains Symphony, WeChat Usage for Trade Queries
The bank is looking to extend this feature to other asset classes in the future.
TradingScreen Looks to Asia, New Order Management Products for Growth
The EMS provider is looking to build out its suite of solutions for the buy side, including a new algo wheel and visualization tools.
Numbering Association Starts Work on Crypto Identifiers
Anna task force explores how Isins can be extended to digital assets such as tokenized securities and cryptocurrencies
New Data Needs Lead to New Data Jobs
The increasing importance of data is introducing new roles to the financial sector. Wei-Shen looks to the future.
CME, Google Ally for Cloud Market Data Access
The partnership will allow existing and potential subscribers around the world to access all CME Group data via a connection to Google Cloud.