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2021: The year when Big Tech ‘Googled’ the financial markets and liked the results
Now that cloud has become widely adopted by financial firms, Big Tech companies are seeking to leverage their other services to become more ingrained in the workflows of the capital markets.
An EU Consolidated Tape: Advancements made in 2021, but still far to go in ’22
The second half of the year saw some long-awaited progress in the mission to fill the void of a consolidated tape in the European Union.
From overhype to practical use cases: the DLT projects that gained ground in 2021
WatersTechnology reflects on some notable distributed ledger technology projects.
Waters Wrap: The biggest disruptors facing the capital markets as we head into 2022
In Anthony’s mind, eight topics will dominate the headlines in the New Year. They are…
People Moves: Cboe, Esma, ASIC, State Street, NeoXam, and more
A look at some of the key people moves from this week, including Erik Thedéen (pictured), who has been appointed vice chair of Esma.
People Moves: OCC, Enfusion, Exegy, IQ-EQ, and more
A look at some of the key "people moves" from this week, including Bronwen Bastone (pictured), who joins Enfusion as chief people officer.
Waters Wrap: The changing role of the CDO (and NYSE’s musical chairs)
As data and analytics change, so too must the CDO function. Anthony also looks at the appointment of Lynn Martin as president of NYSE.
People Moves: NYSE, Broadway, FactSet, Tourmaline, and more
A look at some of the key "people moves" from this week, including James Bunch (pictured), who joins TRG Screen as chief technology officer.
Waters Wrap: An EU consolidated tape—a story of market data costs & reality
After the European Commission released its proposal for an EU consolidated tape last week, Anthony explores some of the unanswered questions that still linger and what the greatest roadblocks appear to be.
Nasdaq rolls out new fixed-income trade surveillance alerts
The vendor is introducing additional alerts for trade surveillance to help tailor its solution for OTC fixed income.
Top venues mull offering joint EU consolidated tape for bonds
Market participants worry a venue-led CT could be of low quality, with CT data used to create expensive additional products.
Waters Wrap: Nasdaq, Quandl and the next phase of the alt data craze
Anthony looks at how Nasdaq's Quandl strategy ties into other trends spreading through the market.
This Week: Cboe-Neo, Aviva-Macrobond, Iress, BNY Mellon, Options, MT Newswires-Bloomberg, and more
A summary of some of the past week’s financial technology news.
Once taboo, open-source skills now sought by Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and other top sell sides
The world’s biggest banks want the new talent to possess at least some open-source technology skills, which was unthinkable a decade ago. It’s a win for advanced open-source practitioners, but how did it materialize? The answer is likely a not-so-even…
Patchy data thwarts consolidated tape hopefuls in Europe
Vendors grapple with unstandardized data reporting and data gaps in their push to develop a consolidated tape, as the EU prepares to unveil its latest legislative plans.
People Moves: LedgerEdge, Broadridge, Talos, Liquidnet, and more
A look at some of the key people moves from this week, including Jason Mendez (pictured), who joins Bitvore as vice president of partnerships.
The perfect climate risk metric does not exist
Buy-side risk survey 2021: Even the keenest searches fail to find a reliable system of climate disclosure.
Refinitiv’s CodeBook targets financial programmers with built-in data access
Since it soft-launched the coding environment last year, Refinitiv has added an item browser to allow coders to look up financial information.
Waters Wrap: CME & Google—the first domino falls
Anthony explores some of the unanswered questions—and potential ripple effects—that come with the new partnership between CME and Google.
People Moves: Rimes, Broadridge, TP Icap, Sifma, and more
A look at some of the key "people moves" from this week, including Justin Brickwood (pictured), who joins Rimes as head of benchmark data services.
This Week: Trading Technologies, Goldman Sachs/Digital Asset, SimCorp/Citi and more
A summary of some of the past week’s financial technology news.
Vendors push voice data across the trade lifecycle
Through partnerships and acquisitions, communications vendors are integrating voice data into different parts of the trade lifecycle to offer more sophisticated analytics and easier user interfaces.
Waters Wrap: On cloud migrations and VCRs
Financial services firms are increasingly embracing public cloud offerings, but there have been stumbles along the way, including around scalability, throttling, and a lack of true multi-cloud connectedness. These are lessons that must be learned if…
Competing CTPs won’t work, warn EU firms, calling for single tape provider
As the industry awaits upcoming EC proposals, some firms are voicing concerns that mandating multiple CTPs could create fresh problems around data fragmentation and connectivity costs.