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FactSet-LiquidityBook: The buy-side OMS space continues to shrink
Waters Wrap: Anthony spoke with buy-side firms and industry experts to get a feel for how the market is reacting to this latest tie-up.
Enough with the ‘Bloomberg Killers’ already
Waters Wrap: Anthony interviews LSEG’s Dean Berry about the Workspace platform, and provides his own thoughts on how that platform and the Terminal have been portrayed over the last few months.
AI set to overhaul market data landscape by 2029, new study finds
A new report by Burton-Taylor says the intersection of advanced AI and market data has big implications for analytics, delivery, licensing, and more.
The IMD Wrap: Will banks spend more on AI than on market data?
As spend on generative AI tools exceeds previous expectations, Max showcases one new tool harnessing AI to help risk and portfolio managers better understand data about their investments—while leaving them always in control of any resulting decisions.
GenAI offers promise, complexity for research management
Research management system providers are building on their AI capabilities using LLMs to improve the research process, but challenges remain.
BMLL adds Canadian data amid global expansion strategy
The market data vendor plans to add more equities and futures exchanges in 2024.
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.
People Moves: Enfusion, Acadian, LSEG, and more
A look at the past month’s people moves in the capital markets technology and data space.
This Week: Octaura, Fix/ISO, Delta Capita/Montis, and more
A summary of the latest financial technology news.
This Week: Bloomberg-Azure, Ice Data Services, Burton-Taylor, 7Ridge, and more
A summary of the latest financial technology news.
Big bank mergers, big cuts in data spend? Not so fast, experts say
With hundreds of millions of dollars spent per year on data and associated technologies, a merger the size of UBS’ takeover of Credit Suisse has the potential to take a huge chunk out of data vendors’ revenues. What’s the path forward?
Should I stay or should I go? What data execs can expect from the UBS–Credit Suisse merger
With major job cuts expected to result from the acquisition of Credit Suisse by UBS, how will such big changes impact those in data and technology roles at the firms?
Market data consumers buy the same products at massively different price points
A new study finds that asset managers are paying several times more than their peers for the same services—but why? And can it be fixed? Does it need to be?
Index fees fatigue: Regulators, startups move in on the big 3 providers’ $5 billion business
Users of index data often complain about the fees they have to fork out, particularly to the likes of S&P, FTSE Russell, and MSCI. WatersTechnology examines the state of the industry and what will disrupt the status quo.
Waters Wrap: Big Tech, exchanges and a rapidly evolving market
Following LSEG’s partnership with Microsoft, Anthony talks with some industry participants to explore what this might mean for exchange tech going forward.
End of Bloomberg’s pandemic provision sparks opportunity—for BBG and terminal upstarts
Middle- and back-office staff at banks and buy-side firms who have become accustomed to remotely accessing Bloomberg terminals at home under a disaster recovery provision could set off a surge of new remote data terminal subscriptions.
People Moves: Tradeweb, Ion, Burton-Taylor, HKEx, and more
A look at some of the key people moves from this week, including Thomas Pluta (pictured), who joins Tradeweb as president-elect.
2021: The year when Big Tech ‘Googled’ the financial markets and liked the results
Now that cloud has become widely adopted by financial firms, Big Tech companies are seeking to leverage their other services to become more ingrained in the workflows of the capital markets.
Waters Wrap: CME & Google—the first domino falls
Anthony explores some of the unanswered questions—and potential ripple effects—that come with the new partnership between CME and Google.
Waters Wrap: ESG’s growing influence on market data consolidation (And exchange data)
Anthony explains why he thinks ESG will play a major role in the anticipated market data consolidation that’s to come. He also looks at moves made by some exchanges to cut out the data vendor middleman.
Waters Wrap: When will Big Tech providers turn sights on the market data space? (And deep learning)
In recent years, the major cloud providers have expanded their service offerings specific to capital markets firms. Some industry observers believe it’s just a matter of time until they get involved in market data M&A activity.