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EU Regulator: Incoming rules will arm financial institutions to negotiate cloud contracts
While the new rules will eat into financial services resources, regulators say they will also offer safeguards for managing cloud agreements.
UK divergence on trading venue perimeter threatens more costs and a complex compliance landscape
The FCA is in the middle of a tug of war over the definition of a trading venue. Will it diverge in a bid to present itself as a competitive market internationally or align with its EU partners?
SocGen to move datacenter footprint in Americas to AWS, Azure
SG Americas plans to significantly reduce and even close datacenters in the US as a result of moving to the cloud and defining controls around cloud and data governance.
Europe could face settlement squeeze with T+1 proposals and CSDR fines
Move to shorten the settlement cycle in the US could have knock-on implications for other markets, as the EU grapples with a new penalty regime.
FactSet blends ML, NLP for predictive data analysis
The vendor is drawing on its vast collection of data to develop predictive signals for credit ratings, shareholder activism and more.
This Week: Finos, LSEG, Neptune & Genesis, Deutsche Börse & Kaiko, Ice & More
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This Week: Microsoft/CaixaBank, Bloomberg, Cboe/Morningstar & More
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Beyond the 'big red blob': UBS sees future in data mesh for analytics
The Swiss bank has started a journey to implementing mesh data architecture, a new concept for federated data availability in enterprises aimed at getting value out of analytical data.
Man Group revamps data science platform to tackle data deluge
The London-based investment manager spent four “long and intense” years rewriting its data science platform, Arctic.
This Week: Deutsche Bank/FinLync, State Street/Paxos, Glue42/AllianceBernstein & More
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This Week: State Street/MarketAxess, Aquis, Linedata & More
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This Week: Goldman Sachs, MSCI/MarketAxess, Cboe/ErisX, & more
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Are cloud standards a bright new horizon, or just pie in the sky?
Cloud computing standardization is a buzzword in 2022, offering the promise of full multi-cloud interoperability. But are cloud standards possible in practice, or even desirable?
This Week: Ice, SS&C/Morningstar, Deutsche Börse/DataBP, RBC & More
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This Week: FIS/Microsoft, Bloomberg/MSCI, Higo/Tora, & more
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This Week: Cboe, Ice, ABN AMRO/Temenos & more
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This Week: Ice, FCA, HSBC, UBS & more
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This Week: KPMG/Volante Technologies, LiquidityBook, Northern Trust & more
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MarketAxess rolls out DataBP's self-service portal to simplify market data licensing
MarketAxess is looking to scale its business and launch new offerings by leveraging DataBP's platform, which utilizes API and cloud-based technology, to optimize its management of post-sales relationships and market data.
This Week: Six/Sustainalytics, Nice Actimize, SmartStream, and more
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This Week: Bloomberg; Charles River, DTCC, SmartStream & More
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Dutch sandbox aims to broker EU consolidated tape
As data quality issues are a main impediment to a viable consolidated tape in Europe, Dutch regulator AFM has helped develop pilots in its Innovation Hub sandbox.
This Week: Bloomberg/Google; SocGen; Aquis Exchange & 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.