Cloud
BNY Mellon CDO: ‘Transformational’ data-centric model tackles data quality issues
BNY’s Eric Hirschhorn says processes—not just the data itself—need to be examined, and points to a data-centric approach.
Goodbye datacenters, hello cloud: Fidelity’s asset management arm goes all in on AWS
The firm has migrated nearly 99% of its trading applications to the cloud and is on track to sunset all on-premises datacenters.
Man Group revamps data science platform to tackle data deluge
The London-based investment manager spent four “long and intense” years rewriting its data science platform, Arctic.
People Moves: Deutsche Börse, Talos, Gresham, Tradefeedr, and more
A look at some of the key people moves from this week, including Shannon Johnston (pictured), who joins Deutsche Börse as chair of the supervisory board's technology committee.
This Week: Deutsche Bank/FinLync, State Street/Paxos, Glue42/AllianceBernstein & More
A summary of the latest financial technology news.
Charles River adds AWS to build out multi-cloud strategy
The vendor is also using Microsoft Azure and is rolling out a new Ibor product in the cloud.
Fed hiring more staff to examine cloud providers
The regulator wants to put more “boots on the ground” at firms such as Amazon, Google and Microsoft.
Natixis: Interop is a buy-side “necessity”
The asset manager is building front-office interoperability based on a canonical data model.
In the world of financial data, context—not content—is the new king
For years, the mantra of the market data world has been ‘content is king.’ But with trading strategies now more dependent on being able to see the big picture, the value of context could quickly overtake the data itself.
Spot the difference: Why crypto data can’t be treated like traditional market data
As institutional participation in cryptocurrency markets increases, traditional data vendors and new specialist crypto data providers are taking different approaches to supplying necessary data to financial firms.
This Week: State Street/MarketAxess, Aquis, Linedata & More
A summary of the latest financial technology news.
Waters Wrap: The next evolution of FDC3
Anthony examines how an open-sourced implementation of the FDC3 standard might change the interoperability landscape.
Bloomberg’s Aim-Port integration highlights broader industry interop push
The data giant is creating tighter back-end interoperability between its buy-side platforms and using APIs to connect with other third-party providers.
People Moves: HKEx, FCA, Clear Street, and more
A look at some of the key "people moves" from this week, including Prerak Sanghvi (pictured), who joins Clear Street as vice president of engineering.
This Week: Goldman Sachs, MSCI/MarketAxess, Cboe/ErisX, & more
A summary of the latest financial technology news.
Are cloud standards a bright new horizon, or just pie in the sky?
Cloud computing standardization is a buzzword in 2022, offering the promise of full multi-cloud interoperability. But are cloud standards possible in practice, or even desirable?
This Week: Ice, SS&C/Morningstar, Deutsche Börse/DataBP, RBC & More
A summary of the latest financial technology news.
Banking group trials quantum computing for portfolio hedging and optimization
After experimenting with gate model quantum computers—as used by IBM and Google—CaixaBank gets to work on real-life problems.
People Moves: DTCC, BNP Paribas Asset Management, Trading Technologies, and more
A look at some of the key "people moves" from this week, including Frank La Salla (pictured), who joins DTCC as its next president and chief executive officer.
Waters Wrap: Snowflake’s cloud plans and what they mean for the interop movement
Upstart Snowflake hopes to be the global data network that brings true interoperability between data and trading platforms across the capital markets. Anthony says it’s an audacious plan, but one worth watching.
This Week: FIS/Microsoft, Bloomberg/MSCI, Higo/Tora, & more
A summary of the latest financial technology news.
This Week: Cboe, Ice, ABN AMRO/Temenos & more
A summary of the latest financial technology news.
Waters Wavelength Podcast: Nasdaq’s Dague on exchange cloud strategy
Bill Dague, head of alternative data at Nasdaq, joins the podcast to discuss the forces driving exchanges to the cloud.
Waters Wrap: Blockchain & Boca—A sad story
Anthony takes issue with how blockchain is still being covered in the media and at industry conferences. What else is new?