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Bloomberg creates one-stop shop for portfolio managers on Terminal
PM <GO> is a new workstation meant to support buy-side decision-making from analysis to implementation.
LiquidityBook buys Messer in effort to beef up portfolio management capabilities
The OEMS provider has purchased the Hong Kong-based PMS provider—but don’t say it’s solely a play for the buy side.
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.
This Week: TNS, Cboe, State Street, ICE, and more
A summary of the latest financial technology news.
Amazon bullish on AWS growth, signals more investment in generative AI
Tech giant’s cloud computing arm grew customer base in Q2 despite cost-cutting among users
Tradeweb treads fine line as API trend brings challenges
Buy-side rates traders look to dodge platform’s interface but remain barred from cross-venue price-shopping.
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.
Hidden danger: As AI permeates finance, cybersecurity moves to the forefront
Open-source wrappers like MLflow, though useful and popular, highlight the risks hidden beneath these models.
Glue42 and Finsemble merge, reshaping interop vendor landscape
The niche interop market previously dominated by Glue42, Finsemble, and OpenFin is evolving—and so are the vendors themselves.
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.
Buy side demands better data aggregation for primary corporate bonds
With electronification and tech development increasing in fixed income, participants are looking for better data access in the primary market for corporate bonds.
Waters Wrap: Numerix, Fincad and the new world of M&A
Anthony says Numerix’s acquisition of Fincad is indicative of where technology development in the capital markets is heading.
Automating collateral management processes crucial for T+1 move
The reduction of settlement times from T+2 to T+1 for many US securities is likely to impact firms’ collateral management processes when it comes into force at the end of May 2024.
New chatbots reveal limitations of legacy API development
As large language models that underpin the likes of ChatGPT and Bard come to market, vendors and trading firms are starting to see the benefits—and challenges—that open APIs provide.
The buy-side burden: Capturing every document, everywhere, all at once
Ensuring that buy-side firms capture all relevant disclosures from funds—especially in the private markets—can be an onerous and costly task. Accelex is aiming to change that.
Citadel Securities, Jane Street battle fixed-income connectivity challenges with MultiLynq buy-in
Increased electronification of fixed income markets requires more connectivity, which entails greater costs for firms to connect to a growing list of trading venues.
After Xignite buy, ex-SunGard execs eye hedge funds, international markets for Quodd
Quodd’s recent acquisition of API data vendor Xignite will provide a springboard to launch the data vendor into new customer segments and markets.
MSCI’s multi-cloud strategy aims to provide a new window into investment data
The MSCI One platform already runs on Microsoft Azure, and MSCI is building a new investment data platform on Google Cloud to utilize the search giant's AI and NLP capabilities.
Waters Wrap: For data managers, the new problems are the same as the old
While much attention has been given to cloud, AI, blockchain and other buzzwords, without a proper data foundation, those tools will not deliver the results that have been promised.
Bank-backed Versana takes aim at syndicated loan tech
Born from a consortium that includes JP Morgan and Bank of America, Versana aims to bring up-to-date and permissioned data to the syndicated loan market—the first step to a more transparent and faster operating market.
Post-trade still struggling from underinvestment, but purse strings are opening
Bloomberg, Broadridge, BNP Paribas, and a handful of startups are working to address manual processes in the back office.
Consolidated tapes gain ground in 2022
Regulators in the US, UK, and EU moved to push forward market data efforts this year.
Lessons from credit: Could all-to-all help Treasury markets?
Regulators are looking to all-to-all trading as a possible solution for worrying volatility and deteriorating liquidity in US Treasury markets.
Where does Pyth fit in?
A small number of exchanges have joined the Pyth Network. Nyela wonders whether the on-chain data distribution model fits in with the swift rise of data marketplaces.