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Wavelength Podcast Ep. 208: The Battle Between Innovation & Practicality
Wei-Shen and Tony discuss the constant push-pull between trying to create innovative new products for the future, while having to answer for today’s challenges.
TipRanks Builds Financial News Service to Highlight Analyst Ratings Data
The vendor provides ratings of research analysts, bloggers, and other stock tipsters.
IPC Looks to Partner with Additional Transcription Service Providers
The comms and networking provider is expanding its service after partnering with OpenFin.
UBS Evidence Lab Uses Hospital Data to Profile Regional Recoveries
The unit is combining foot-traffic data and proprietary datasets derived from hospitals to develop a better understanding of outbreaks and predict a timeline for recovery.
CanDeal Leverages Canadian Data Pooling Model to Build Data & Analytics Business
DNA will use CanDeal's unique position-capturing data from the country's top broker-dealers to create new data services.
Symphony to Make KYC Play as Part of Ongoing Rebrand
The chat and collaboration platform will tap into the trade and client lifecycle management spaces, beginning with an identity management service.
WatersTechnology Asia Awards 2020 Winner's Interview: Erdem Özgül and Stephen Cheng, Numerix
Victor Anderson chats to Erdem Özgül and Stephen Cheng from Numerix about the firm's win in the risk management solution category in the inaugural WatersTech Asia Awards.
BNY Mellon, Deutsche Bank to Extend FX API for Indonesia and India
The two are working out the necessary regulatory, tax, and documentation needed to provide custody services for foreign exchange transactions in the two countries.
Moonshots Shelved: Banks Spend on Home-Working Tech
Senior technologists from UBS, Deutsche Bank, Nomura, SocGen and others discuss where their tech spend is being directed.
Post Acquisition, Gresham Looks to Integrate Inforalgo to Improve CAT Offering
The vendor is streamlining its platform for reporting to the consolidated audit trail.
People Moves: SS&C, Qontigo, Deloitte, MTS Markets International, Luminex
A look at some of the key "people moves" from this week, including Antoine Burke (pictured), who has joined SS&C as sales executive for Asia Pacific.
Ion Forced to Split Broadway, Keeping FX
The remedy will satisfy the UK competition watchdog—but “a big defeat” for the acquisitive tech giant.
Waters Wrap: The NEX Brand Slowly Disappears (Plus Market Data Fights & AI Integrations)
Anthony looks at what's become of NEX since the CME acquisition, as well as discussions over odd lot reform and S&P's Kensho implementation.
This Week: IHS Markit, Vela, Euronext, ASX, Essentia & More
A summary of some of the past week’s financial technology news.
Wavelength Podcast Ep. 207: Vaccine Tracking and Other Alt Datasets
Wei-Shen and Tony talk about alt datasets relating to the pandemic.
Siepe Builds out Middle Office Service
The investment management solution and cloud infrastructure provider is also planning to roll out a new risk management service.
NERD Alert: S&P Taps Kensho to Add IDs, Data Links to Mentions in Historical Transcripts
The move marks the start of plans to expand the distribution of Kensho's entity and individual recognition and tagging system.
Bloomberg Adds New NLP Capabilities to TOMS
The tool allows traders to search their own data to find trade information specific to them.
Exchanges, SEC At Odds Over Odd Lots
Industry insiders warn that the regulator’s attempts to modernize equities data by redefining trading lots will fall short of the mark if odd lot orders remain unprotected.
OneMarketData Advances on Cloud Migration and Extends Asset Class Coverage
The vendor will roll out new coverage across OTC derivatives, fixed income, and FX in the third and fourth quarters.
Avelacom Claims Fastest Nasdaq-Brazil Route for Data, Trading
Avelacom's CEO says the 18-month project was one of the hardest ever undertaken by the company due to challenges related to doing business in Brazil.
Aquis Exchange Progresses with NEX’s Tech Migration
The exchange initiated the tech overhaul after realizing some of the NEX platforms were “out of date” and “terrible”.
ActiveViam Embraces Python for its In-Memory Database
The vendor is building off its April release of an enrichment tool for Python notebooks.
People Moves: BME, Qontigo, OTC Link, Finastra
A look at some of the key "people moves" from this week, including Jos Dijsselhof (pictured) who has been appointed chairman at BME.