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From burst to bust: What happens when cloud runs dry?
After years of initial resistance, the capital markets have come to depend heavily on the compute capacity of the public cloud. But increasing market volumes are rapidly outpacing the cloud capacity that organizations thought would be sufficient for…
This Week: Deutsche Borse; State Street; IHS Markit; MSCI; & more
A summary of the week's financial technology news.
BofA and HSBC: at the intersection of cybersecurity and neurodiversity
Closing the growing gap between adequate enterprise cybersecurity protection and available resources is fraught with obstacles, so Bank of America and HSBC are pursuing an unconventional approach: seeking out neurodiverse talent with a knack for pattern…
SmartStream Sibos Series: Victoria Harverson
Victoria Harverson, global head of business development for SmartStream Air, chats to Victor Anderson in the run up to Sibos 2021.
SmartStream Sibos Series: Peter Hainz
Peter Hainz, global head of product management for cloud & managed services at SmartStream Technologies, chats to Victor Anderson in the run up to Sibos 2021.
SmartStream Sibos Series: Mark Morris
Mark Morris, head of sales for managed services at SmartStream Technologies, chats to Victor Anderson in the run up to Sibos 2021.
SmartStream Sibos Series: Haytham Kaddoura
Haytham Kaddoura, CEO of SmartStream Technologies, chats to Victor Anderson in the run up to Sibos 2021.
SFDR pushes fund administrators to rethink ESG offerings
Some fund admins prefer to build ESG products in-house, while others, notably Northern Trust, consider it ‘inefficient’ from a cost and time perspective.
More banks flirt with machine learning for CCAR—but risks persist
The superior computational grunt of neural networks is attractive to lenders, but a lack of explainability presents a significant downside.
Cloud: Capital markets’ Swiss Army knife
The best uses of the cloud so far have been as an enabler of performance and innovation. The best uses yet to come could reshape AI. So, Max warns, if you think cloud is about cutting costs, you’re thinking about it all wrong.
Waters Wrap: Will privacy-enhancing tech for the back office fall flat?
Anthony says that banks should be more concerned with cleaning up the technical debt accumulated in the back office, rather than dumping money into bleeding-edge technologies.
Waters Wavelength Podcast: State Street’s COO on acquisition strategy
Lou Maiuri, chief operating officer at State Street, joins the podcast to discuss State Street’s acquisition of Brown Brothers Harriman’s Investor Services business.
The Modern Commodities Trading Lifecycle: How Technology is Transforming Business Processes
Sinara explains how it is leveraging its software expertise to overhaul and modernize business processes that have traditionally been focused around outdated and less efficient manual touchpoints
People Moves: Baton, Broadridge, BNY Mellon, Eventus, and more
A look at some of the key "people moves" from this week, including Mike Johnson (pictured), who joins Broadridge as VP and global product manager of derivatives clearing.
SS&C initiates buy-side migration to front-to-back Aloha platform
Migrations will vary based on the size of the firm, with smaller ones likely to take a 'big bang' approach while larger firms will opt for a gradual transition.
Definition of a trading venue: Reg review risks ensnarling tech vendors
Industry participants are divided over the definition of a trading venue and how regulators should revise the regulatory framework.
This Week: Bloomberg, VoxSmart–GreenKey, EDM Council, Northern Trust, Anna-DSB, and more
A summary of some of the past week’s financial technology news.
Phase five margin queues spur calls for custody revamp
Custodians are being urged to update “antiquated technology” ahead of a three-fold jump in phase six initial margin onboarding.
ASX builds ‘DLT-as-a-service’ offering to help prep market for Chess replacement
The exchange’s customer Daml sandpit has been up and running since January and has had over 20 firms log on. The next phase—its DLT cloud environment—will be ready in early October.
Making the Business Case for Systematizing FX Optimization
This webinar explores the purpose-built technologies available to capital markets firms to help them systematize and add transparency to their capital optimization processes, benefiting the business, counterparties and end-investors, while also complying…
Waters Wrap: The expanding battle over reference data identifiers
Bloomberg, Broadridge, and Finra have all recently made news in the world of standards and identifiers. Anthony looks at some of the questions the reporters at WatersTechnology will be asking going forward.
Bank-backed futures utility criticized as too ambitious
Osttra’s Joanna Davies is urging industry leaders to look for “quick wins”.
Tradeweb adds ‘in-flight’ controls for European credit to AiEX
Users of the trading tool can now isolate and manage trade exceptions in real time.