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People Moves: HKEX, Trading Technologies, CME Group, and more
A look at the past month’s people moves in the capital markets technology and data space.
A fireside chat with Regnology's Linda Middleditch
Linda Middleditch, chief product officer of Regnology, sits down with Victor Anderson and looks back at what has been a productive year for the RegTech specialist.
The IMD Wrap: Exchange, data vendor audits continue to rankle end-users—what will change in 2024?
While the data auditing process has been contentious for a long time, Max looks at some of the positive improvements made in 2023 and explains why more improvements need to be made in the New Year.
This Week: Danske Bank/Netdania, Tradeweb/BlackRock, TMX, and more
A summary of the latest financial technology news.
AllianceBernstein: fine-tuning shrinks gen AI ‘hallucinations’
Asset manager says its tweaks have improved accuracy of LLM models.
Managing the FX challenge for T+1
As firms prepare for T+1 in May 2024, DTCC’s Val Wotton says they should also consider the complexities for cross-border trades.
Who is at fault for Goldman Sachs’s $5.5 million fine?
While the CFTC says the bank is to blame for record-keeping failures that transpired at the start of the pandemic, others say it was two vendors who let the bank down.
How money laundering episodes catalyze the battle against financial crime
Deutsche Bank’s Mathew Kathayanat and Jie Yi Lee say that the implementation of digital identity management systems will help banks to get a handle on their AML/CTF monitoring needs.
Waters Wavelength Podcast: BMO on market structure
This week, Joe Wald from BMO joins the podcast to discuss the SEC’s market structure proposals.
Buy side unconvinced of corporate bond streaming benefits
Managers see limited utility of streamed prices in the once OTC-only asset class.
Operational resilience using the cloud
This webinar focuses on the business and operational benefits to firms on the back of their cloud strategies, across an industry that is often unforgiving to those not able to guarantee 100% uptime, operational robustness and competitiveness
Waters Wrap: On EMSs, regulation, and (among others) BlackRock Aladdin
Regulators in the US and Europe have turned their sights on execution management system providers. Anthony examines some of the questions the industry is trying to answer.
This Week: FlexTrade/BTON, Bloomberg, MarketAxess, Tradeweb, and more
A summary of the latest financial technology news.
Citi’s internal cloud project gets open-sourced
Through Finos, a project that started internally to help Citi get a better handle on its cloud controls now includes the likes of Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, RBC, BMO and LSEG.
Millennium Management enlists Google for building custom tech solutions
Google Cloud’s capital markets director Rohit Bhat details the cloud giant’s buy-side strategy.
Firms step up non-compete use to protect tech, data IP
US states are increasingly banning or limiting the use of non-compete contracts, but financial firms are using them more frequently to safeguard proprietary tech and data assets—including the knowledge of the individuals who work on them.
Post-trade processing via NYFIX matching
A case study underscoring how a global asset management firm successfully addressed post-trade processing challenges by adopting NYFIX Matching from Broadridge.
The move to T+1: This time is different
This whitepaper, created by Broadridge, focuses on leveraging robotic process automation and AI to ensure a smooth transition from T+2 to T+1 settlement.
AI model uses quantum math to learn like a human
Could the next big breakthrough in machine learning come from the world of finance?
BST Awards 2023 Best buy-side managed data service winner's interview: S&P Global Market Intelligence
S&P Global Market Intelligence won the best managed data service at this year's Buy-Side Technology Awards.
AFTAs 2023: Most innovative third-party technology vendor (data, data services & data management)—SmartStream Technologies
Project: Reference Data Utility (RDU)
AFTAs 2023: Best IT team (sell side)—Goldman Sachs
Team: Goldman Sachs Marquee