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Banks Explore Graph Technology to Tackle Data Complexity for Compliance
Although graph technology is still in the early stages of adoption, banks such as Wells Fargo and ING have begun leveraging it to find previously unknown connections between datasets.
China’s AI Expansion Could Shift the Fintech Balance of Power
Wei-Shen thinks about how the battle for supremacy in AI will evolve in the near future, and what the implications of China’s advances in the field might mean for Wall Street technology.
People Moves: BNY Mellon, big xyt, Temenos, SEC, Gresham, First Derivatives
A look at some of the key "people moves" from this week, including Fangfang Chen as (pictured), who has been appointed Asia Pacific chair and Asia Pacific head of asset servicing and digital at BNY Mellon.
This Week: BBVA/AWS, Bloomberg/Lombard Odier, TP Icap, Credit Suisse/Torstone, Endicott
A summary of some of the past week's financial technology news.
People Moves: DTCC, Evaluate, Capitolis, Facteus, HazelTree
A look at some of the key "people moves" from this week, including Bob Stewart (pictured) who has been appointed executive director of ITP product management.
S4 Launches Market Data Recruitment Unit
S4 executives say their years of experience can help them identify and recruit the people and skillsets that firms may not initially realize they need.
Waters Wrap: Goldman’s Marquee Move a Sign of Larger Industry Shift (And Refinitiv’s API Rebrand)
Anthony explores changing concept of a trading platform, and what that might mean for the future of tech development.
Goldman Sachs Takes Aim at Interoperability, Analytics with Marquee Enhancements
The bank’s recent moves signal what could become a managed services offering, as Goldman further embraces cloud, open source, and APIs.
Broadridge Onboards Clients to Corporate Bonds Platform Set to Launch Next Year
The vendor's LTX platform leverages a neural network to navigate the complexity of the corporate bond market, and is expected to launch in the first quarter of 2021.
EDM Council Expands into Analytics, Reflecting Changing CDO Priorities
Analytics will be the eighth foundational pillar of data management covered by the EDM Council's DCAM model, reflecting the importance of data quality to analytics.
FISD Reports Progress on Alt Data Standards, Data Dictionary
Officials say FISD's standards efforts will encourage and support broader adoption of alternative data among firms that have previously not had the resources to take advantage of new alt datasets.
Waters Wrap: The M&A Market Heats Up (And Some Quantum Computing News)
What do Liquidnet and Trading Technologies (and others) have in common? Anthony explains. He also discusses advancement—and disillusionment—in the quantum space.
People Moves: Broadridge, Schroders, Cboe, TP ICAP, Temenos, Ideal Prediction, and ASX
A look at some of the key "people moves" from this week, including Vijay Mayadas (pictured) who has been appointed president of capital markets at Broadridge.
Financial Sector Should Commercialize Data Management Knowledge to Advance Other Industries
Just as there’s always money to be made from doing dirty jobs, there are opportunities around dirty data—especially in industries that are only now beginning to appreciate the value of being data-driven.
Milestone Group to Launch Fair-Value Feature to Flagship Platform
The vendor will make the pControl add-on globally available to clients later in 2020.
People Moves: DTCC, State Street, Xoriant, Esma, Atomyze, Canoe Intelligence, BCS
A look at some of the key "people moves" from this week, including Lisa Hershey (pictured) who has been appointed managing director and chief compliance officer at the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC).
Wavelength Podcast Ep. 213: Data Management in a Post-Covid World
Senior execs from Citizens Bank, Commerzbank, and Deutsche Bank discuss lessons learned during the pandemic.
IBM, Refinitiv Partner on Machine Learning Project to Better Understand Market Correlations
The two companies are in the early stages of using causal inference to help firms build machine learning models that are better able to handle disruption from events like the Covid-19 pandemic.
BNY Mellon Preps Fintech Accelerator Program to ID Key Tech Solutions
The Connect20 hackathon and the Accelerator Program are designed to "industrialize" BNY Mellon's ability to identify early stage companies providing solutions to key technology and business challenges facing the firm.
Data Poisoning: An Emerging Threat for Machine Learning Adoption
Experts from IBM and Bank of China say they're on the lookout for this emerging threat, as machine learning gains in popularity.
People Moves: Morgan Stanley, Refinitiv, SimCorp, BNY Mellon, Qontigo and More
A look at some of the key "people moves" from this week, including Katherine Wetmur (pictured), who has been appointed head of technology and operations risk at Morgan Stanley.
This Week: Nasdaq, Bloomberg, Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Boerse, BNP Paribas, Wolters Kluwer, and More
A summary of some of the past week's financial technology news.
OTC Markets Unveils ‘Blue Sky’ Compliance Dataset for OTC Securities
The dataset is part of an ongoing initiative by the OTC marketplace to gain state-by-state exemptions to allow brokers and issuers to conduct business in OTC securities.
AxeTrading To Roll Out More Automation for Fixed Income Platform
Vendor integrates open source stream processing software Apache Kafka for real-time event data.