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Hedge Funds Hunt for Alpha Across 1 Billion Smartphones
Mobile geolocation has opened a new frontier for investors
The Right to Be Forgotten: GDPR as the Opening Salvo in Privacy
Does Privacy Exist Anymore? As people willingly give up their personal information, GDPR might be a step in a necessary direction.
Wavelength Podcast Episode 124: Exchange Outages and Blockchain Developments
The LSE suffered a major outage this week while blockchain was very prevalent in this week's headlines.
WatersTech Spotlight: Fintech M&A
The fintech landscape has changed markedly in recent months as a result of M&A activity. Here are five of the most notable deals.
The Risky Business of Splitting Hairs
Plans to shelve a commonly cited statistic for the size of the derivatives market make sense, but may prove harder to accomplish than many realize.
June 2018: AI—Let’s Not Get Bogged Down by Semantics
Victor argues that the definition of artificial intelligence is far less important than its applications in financial services.
The War for Talent: Emerging Technologies Create New Needs
Financial firms battle it out in a finite pool of talent, for the best and brightest fintech minds.
Markets Learn Painful Lessons as Blockchain Grows Up
Shelving early blockchain projects has pushed the technology further into maturity, and offers lessons for the future.
A Serendipitous Journey: Elly Hardwick, Deutsche Bank
Deutsche Bank's Elly Hardwick discusses her career and how the bank is looking to roll out innovative new solutions to tackle old problems.
SST Awards 2018: Best Data Provider to the Sell Side—SIX
Zurich-based SIX has a long history of wins across Waters’ various awards programs for its acclaimed corporate actions offering, and this year it snaps up the best data provider to the sell side category.
SST Awards 2018: Best Cloud Provider to the Sell Side—BT
For the past few years, the best cloud provider to the sell side category has been won by one company—BT—for its Radianz Cloud suite, and this year is no different.
SST Awards 2018: Best Distributed-Ledger Technology Project—R3
As far as distributed-ledger technology firms go, there has only been one that stands out for its platform built specifically for finance, and takes home the award for the best distributed-ledger technology project at the Sell-Side Technology Awards 2018…
SST Awards 2018: Best Implementation at a Sell-Side Firm—SmartStream Technologies
The best implementation award is the only category of all 32 on offer in this year’s Sell-Side Technology Awards where the winner is determined by the effectiveness of an implementation at a sell-side firm.
SST Awards 2018 Winners' Circle: SmartStream Technologies
SmartStream Technologies made a little bit of history at this year’s Sell-Side Technology Awards by winning the best implementation category for the first time. Victor Anderson chats to SmartStream’s Vincent Kilcoyne about his firm’s relationship with…
SST Awards 2018: Best Infrastructure Provider to the Sell Side—Avelacom
Two years ago, Avelacom was a name that many in the capital markets community were not familiar with. But the Moscow-headquartered company has grown rapidly and is this year’s recipient of the best infrastructure provider to the sell side category in…
SST Awards 2018: Best Outsourcing Provider to the Sell Side—Broadridge Financial Solutions
For the third year in a row, Broadridge has won the best outsourcing provider to the sell side category in the Sell-Side Technology Awards.
SST Awards 2018: Best Reporting Platform or Services for the Sell Side—AxiomSL
AxiomSL has been a champion of regulatory technology for a number of years with its approach to managing data and tracking data lineage. This year, its hard work and underlying technologies have been focused on its efforts to resolve the Comprehensive…
SST Awards 2018: Best Sell-Side Analytics Product—NEX TriOptima
Stricter regulatory capital rules and accounting developments are forcing firms to adopt new analytics solutions that are more efficient than their predecessors. TriOptima, a NEX Group company, claims this year’s best sell-side analytics product award,…
SST Awards 2018: Best Sell-Side Back-Office Platform—Murex
Risk management and processing solutions provider Murex is the first to bag this award, one of the new categories in this year’s Sell-Side Technology Awards.
SST Awards 2018: Best Sell-Side Credit Risk Product—Numerix
In contrast to the market risk award, which has changed hands every year since the Sell-Side Technology Awards started in 2013, there has only ever been one winner of its sister category in credit risk—Numerix. There’s a reason for that—none come close…