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Waters Rankings 2023 winner's interview: Derivative Path
Derivative Path won the best cloud-based application provider category in this year's Waters Rankings.
BlackRock forecasts return to fixed income amid efforts to electronify market
The world's largest asset manager expects bond markets to make headway once rates settle.
This Week: JP Morgan, Broadridge, Lloyds, JSE, Schroders, and more
A summary of the latest financial technology news.
Tech spend, AI fuel JP Morgan’s fight against Big Tech giants
JP Morgan Chase, which has spent more than $15 billion this year on technology, intends to invest even more to compete against tech behemoths.
Waters Rankings 2023 Winners’ Circle: SS&C Technologies
SS&C’s perfect four in the Waters Rankings.
Waters Wavelength Podcast: Navigating the buy vs. build debate
Adaptive Financial Consulting’s Matt Barrett joins the podcast to discuss how firms decide to build or buy.
What firms should know ahead of the DSB’s UPI launch
Six jurisdictions have set deadlines for firms to implement the derivatives identifier, with more expected to follow.
Bloomberg creates one-stop shop for portfolio managers on Terminal
PM <GO> is a new workstation meant to support buy-side decision-making from analysis to implementation.
Getting up to speed: Shortwave Chicago-London link clocks under 25ms
Industry benchmarking body Stac reports audit findings on the latency and throughput of Raft Technologies’ Chicago-London links.
Europe’s AI Act is taking shape. How will the UK respond?
As the EU pushes through a historic AI Act, its neighbor is left wondering how to keep up.
This Week: Broadridge/UBS, Bloomberg, MarketAxess, ICE, and more
A summary of the latest financial technology news.
New threats, old foibles prompt banks to switch GRC vendors
Op Risk Benchmarking: more than half of participants are reviewing or switching systems
Google bullish on AI benefits in the face of fears over unchecked growth
Tech giant quells fears over a Skynet-style reality, stressing a risk-based approach to AI usage during a panel in London on Thursday.
Has cloud cracked the multicast ‘holy grail’ for exchanges?
An examination of how exchanges—already migrating to the cloud—are working to solve the problem of multicasting in a new environment.
LiquidityBook buys Messer in effort to beef up portfolio management capabilities
The OEMS provider has purchased the Hong Kong-based PMS provider—but don’t say it’s solely a play for the buy side.
Waters Wrap: Market data spend and nice-to-have vs. need-to-have decisions
Cost is not the top factor driving the decision to switch data providers. Anthony looks at what’s behind the evolution of spending priorities.
People Moves: DTCC, Adaptive, Northern Trust, SmartStream, Broadridge and more
A look at September’s people moves within the capital markets technology and data space.
This Week: FIX; DLT report; reporting fines; derivatives tech; startups and more
A summary of the latest financial technology news.
The consolidated tapes are taking shape—but what shape exactly?
With political appetite established on both sides of the Channel, attention is turning to the technical details.
Ignoring ESG data simply doesn’t make business sense
There’s a brewing controversy about “woke” ESG investments. But politics aside, ESG as a dataset brings more transparency to investment decisions.
SEC squares off with broker-dealers over data analytics usage
The Gensler administration has ruffled feathers in the broker-dealer community with a new proposal seeking to limit their use of predictive data analytics. But at the heart of this deal is something far more seismic: one of the first attempts by the SEC…
Shining a light on fixed income
Fixed income as an asset class has presented the market with several challenges due to the OTC model by which the bulk of securities are traded
Crypto ECNs aim to offer alternative to Clobs
CrossX and Cypator bring ECN-style trading and settlement to crypto, but rivals claim infrastructure isn’t ready
In Absentia: Remembering Sandra Villena and finding her killer
Sandra Villena, a 32-year-old market data professional on the rise, was murdered while on vacation in October 2022. Nearly a year later, her friends and family are still seeking justice, while they learn how to live with the absence that now fills their…