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Snowflake partners with BMLL in another big tech-fintech tie up
The collaboration comes as part of both companies’ desire to eliminate end users’ need for intensive data engineering, as well as costly in-house data storage.
Locking down the lifecycle: Trading Technologies turns to analytics and TCA in latest acquisition
The tech provider gains TCA, analytics, and algo optimization tools as established vendors vie to build more comprehensive platforms.
Behavioral analytics: the data trend that has asset managers looking inward
Vanguard and others are building tools that “nudge” investors to make better investment decisions.
Inside look: How Big Tech is using generative AI to win over finance
Execs from Amazon, Google and IBM explain their capital markets strategy when it comes to rolling out new AI tools.
Goldman’s Marquee is a gradual revelation
Multiple apps are being corralled into a sticky cross-asset ecosystem, updated with Python and cloud
Waters Wavelength Podcast: IBM on generative AI
This week, John Duigenan from IBM joins the podcast to discuss generative AI.
How exchanges are becoming more than just marketplaces
Wei-Shen examines how exchanges are branching out and pursuing new ventures that could bring them fresh revenue streams.
This Week: TNS, Cboe, State Street, ICE, and more
A summary of the latest financial technology news.
LSEG to step up AI and Fabric development, preps Eikon sunset
With Acadia integration now complete, exchange group signals next steps in its Microsoft tie-up and announces launch of new FX matching platform later this year
Waters Wrap: Big Tech’s subtle plans for capital markets domination
Amazon, Google, IBM and Microsoft aren't just cloud providers anymore—and their tentacles are going to spread deep into trading systems going forward.
People Moves: Northern Trust, Finbourne, HKEx, Broadridge, and more
A look at the past month’s people moves within the tech and data space, including Benze Lam (pictured), who becomes Northern Trust’s Hong Kong head.
Deutsche Börse ‘cannot afford’ to miss out on generative AI; SimCorp deal on schedule
The exchange group wants to be at the forefront of the emerging technology field and has extended its partnership with Google into AI.
Microsoft, Google highlight LLM capabilities for future growth
Satya Nadella and Sundar Pichai both touted the advancements their respective companies have made in the field of generative AI during their earnings calls.
As ESG investing faces headwinds, MSCI’s CEO says ESG ‘most popular’ topic for clients
For future analytics enhancements, the vendor will also lean into large language models and generative AI.
IBM bets big on generative AI
Although Q2 revenue was flat year-on-year, it was buoyed by IBM’s hybrid cloud and AI strategy. The tech giant will build up its AI capabilities similarly to how it’s dealt with Red Hat OpenShift.
State of the tech: A half-year check-in with large language models
AI is having a moment, and data vendors and software providers are seizing on it. Some are building models in-house, while others are looking to third parties to power their strategies—but the focus is largely on productivity and faster data access…
Banks’ internal watchdogs bark back at ChatGPT
Generative AI has plenty of uses in finance, but banks must first overcome compliance headaches
Waters Wavelength Podcast: Numerix’s new CEO
Emanuele Conti joins to discuss his new role as the head of Numerix, the company’s M&A strategy, and his vision for the future.
Nasdaq–Adenza: A look at the tech
The exchange operator announced its intention to acquire the software firm, which combines AxiomSL and Calypso, in a deal that amounts to its largest acquisition to date.
Waters Wrap: The path to generative AI is paved with solid data practices
While large language models are likely to proliferate, those that can develop a solid data infrastructure of taxonomies, ontologies, data sourcing, mapping and lineage will be the ultimate winners, Anthony says.
BlackRock looks to expand Aladdin through accounting, data capabilities
Accounting, data, and analytics offerings make up part of Aladdin's strategy to become everything to everyone.
Fenics Market Data’s secret source
The ability of capital markets practitioners to make judicious business and investment decisions is directly determined by the quality of data underpinning those decisions. Fenics Market Data’s Rich Winter discusses the benefits of sourcing data from…
What does it take to put a database in the cloud?
There are several ways to migrate an old legacy system to the cloud, but there's always a trade-off.
Waters Wrap: Goldman Sachs and the facts and fiction of being data driven
Neema Raphael, CDO and head of data engineering for Goldman Sachs, explains what he believes it means for a firm to be data driven.