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Waters Wrap: Get ready for the low-code, no-code explosion
Anthony looks at some recent developments in the low-code and no-code spaces, and tries to better understand what’s hype and what’s reality.
People Moves: WFE, MSCI, Broadway Technology, Tora and more
A look at some of the key "people moves" from this week, including Ed Tilly (pictured), who has been appointed chairman of the World Federation of Exchanges.
Sell side pushing for bilateral connectivity for fixed income
Fixed-income liquidity providers, battling tighter margins, want to execute directly with clients, but are buy-side and tech firms willing to absorb the connectivity costs?
This Week: S&P Global Market Intelligence, SimCorp, SS&C, Six, and more
A summary of some of the past week's financial technology news.
Ion expands into OTC markets with Clarus deal
With the deal, the tech titan adds real-time swaps margin analytics to its post-trade services for listed derivatives.
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Waters Wrap: Some random thoughts about Big Tech disruption and M&A in Q4
Anthony looks at what he thinks will be the biggest topics during the last quarter of 2021.
Machines can read, but do they understand?
A novel NLP application built on a Google transformer model can help predict ratings transitions
People Moves: SunTec, Broadridge, HKEX, Northern Trust, and more
A look at some of the key "people moves" from the past week, including Leon Stavrou (pictured), who's been promoted to head of business in Australia and New Zealand at Northern Trust.
IHS Markit plans ‘low-code, no-code’ configuration for EDM platform
The vendor is working on a drag-and-drop feature as part of a wider shift towards a low-code or no-code configuration environment.
Waters Rankings 2021: Best agency broker—BMO Capital Markets
Product: BMO Electronic Trading
Waters Rankings 2021: Best AML compliance solution provider—ACA Compliance
Product: ACA ComplianceAlpha
Waters Wavelength Podcast: Episode 241 (Big Tech and the capital markets)
Wei-Shen and Tony explore the idea of big tech companies disrupting the traditional Wall Street vendors.
This Week: CME/IHS Markit, Bloomberg, OpenExchange, Equinix, and more
A summary of some of the past week’s financial technology news.
A tale of two titans: Microsoft vs. Bloomberg
Bloomberg has fended off rivals to its business for years but Jo believes a more credible threat may be emerging.
People Moves: FactSet, AFMA, Finos, Tradeweb and more
A look at some of the key "people moves" from this week, including Linda Huber (pictured), who joins FactSet as chief financial officer.
Six corporate actions prototype aims to slash data delivery time
If the prototype is put into production, delivery of corporate actions data for dividends could be reduced from up to 24 hours to 15 to 30 minutes.
Waters Wrap: Cloud, AI, Interop: The evolutions driving fixed-income progress
Anthony believes these advancements will provide the opening for Big Tech firms to created outsized influence that will change financial technology forever.
Waters Rankings 2021: Best reconciliation management provider—SmartStream
Product: TLM Reconciliations