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BST Awards 2021: Best cloud provider to the buy side—BT
Product: BT Radianz Cloud
BST Awards 2021: Best implementation at a buy-side firm—Cosaic
Product: Finsemble
BST Awards 2021: Best ESG data provider to the buy side—Moody’s ESG Solutions
Product: Moody’s ESG Solutions Suite
BST Awards 2021: Best buy-side corporate actions platform—IHS Markit
Product: Corporate Actions solution
BST Awards 2021: Best buy-side client reporting platform—FactSet
Product: FactSet Reporting Solutions—Vermilion Reporting Suite
BST Awards 2021: Best buy-side AI platform or tool—MarketAxess
Product: Composite+
BST Awards 2021: Best buy-side compliance product—trading: Linedata
Product: Linedata Compliance
BST Awards 2021: Best buy-side reconciliation platform/service—SmartStream Technologies
Product: TLM Reconciliations Premium
BST Awards 2021: Best buy-side risk management product—Qontigo
Product: Axioma Risk
BST Awards 2021: Best buy-side EMS—FactSet
Product: Portware EMS
Banks seek greater clarity from regulators on cloud risk
Regulators have been reluctant to specify cloud risks, despite warnings of overreliance on three big providers.
Vendors push voice data across the trade lifecycle
Through partnerships and acquisitions, communications vendors are integrating voice data into different parts of the trade lifecycle to offer more sophisticated analytics and easier user interfaces.
Solving the Data Challenge—Technical Solutions for Optimization of Risk Management, Capital and Liquidity Resources
Since the financial crisis that began in 2007–08, regulatory pressure on requirements around capital adequacy, liquidity, funding, balance sheet size and leverage has become increasingly intense. As a consequence, financial institutions need to manage…
Waters Wrap: On cloud migrations and VCRs
Financial services firms are increasingly embracing public cloud offerings, but there have been stumbles along the way, including around scalability, throttling, and a lack of true multi-cloud connectedness. These are lessons that must be learned if…
FIS modernizes through modularity
The vendor has been in the process of overhauling its entire tech estate for almost seven years, with the aim of offering modular, flexible services.
People Moves: Charles River, Causality Link, Preqin, and more
A look at some of the key people moves from this week, including Caroline O'Shaughnessy (pictured), who joins Charles River Development as Emea head.
Competing CTPs won’t work, warn EU firms, calling for single tape provider
As the industry awaits upcoming EC proposals, some firms are voicing concerns that mandating multiple CTPs could create fresh problems around data fragmentation and connectivity costs.
Interoperability: Banks struggle with just how much they want for flagship platforms
For all the talk of interoperability within the capital markets, Wei-Shen wonders just how far firms are willing to go.
This Week: Bloomberg/Goldman Sachs, Broadridge, Rimes, and more
A summary of some of the past week's financial technology news.
Big Data Challenges—Unlocking Opportunities for Banks to Rethink Their Data Structures
Revisions to banks’ mandatory capital requirement regulations, to be implemented in a few jurisdictions in January 2023 and globally in 2024, will present these institutions with a massive challenge as the volumes of data they must manage and analyze…