Covid Trends
Vaccine Tracking Data—The Next Big Alt Dataset
Investment firms and vendors are searching for signals in healthcare and pharmaceutical data in a bid to get a leg up on a Covid-19 vaccine.
Boosted.ai Rolls Out New Models for Navigating Covid-Specific Risks
As Covid-19 impacted companies and markets in March, the machine-learning startup sought to help clients better manage risk exposures that couldn't be explained by traditional risk factors.
Broker Tradition Shifts to Virtual Desktops
The company is considering a full move to virtual-working solutions after investing in remote access for brokers and other staff during the Covid-19 pandemic..
Waters Wrap: The Race to the Cloud (And More on Name Changes, Reg Reporting, & Covid Data)
Anthony Malakian examines how firms are racing to the cloud to roll out new market data services. He also looks at ChartIQ's name change, the regulatory reporting space, and Lazard's Covid-19 data rollout.
Lazard Asset Management Revamps Data Model to Reflect Covid-19 Reality
The firm developed a short-term data strategy to avoid the use of unreliable data and better understand the effects of the pandemic on the market as it evolves.
Firms Hone Use of New Alt Datasets to Pick Covid-19’s Winners
Investment managers are starting to use alternative data to assess the pandemic’s effect on individual stocks.
Trading Venues Face Resilience Test in Covid-19 Pandemic
Software testing and monitoring keeps market infrastructure a step ahead amid market volatility.
UBS Head of Tech: How Virtual Desktops Keep Workers Plugged in During the Pandemic
The Swiss bank’s A3 system offers a blueprint for remote working as the industry looks to life beyond coronavirus.
Banks Eye More Open Source in Light of Covid-19
Driven by common industry pain points and unforeseen complications, capital markets firms have begun using open-source technology more widely.
Quants Use Nowcasting As Covid Crystal Ball
Experts from UBS, Unigestion, MIT and QuantConnect discuss the need for nowcasting, and what the alt data boom has made possible in trying to navigate today’s crisis.
Two Former Fidessa Employees Make Push into OMS Interop Space
Two former Fidessa employees are working with Glue42, which in turn is working with Fidessa and Ion, on bringing interoperability to the OMS space.
Covid Provides RPA a Chance to Shine, but Skeptics Remain
The pandemic has highlighted the need for greater automation, leaving some retail banks to embrace RPA, which could seep into the wholesale capital markets.
Pandemic Fuels New Wave of Surveillance Tech
Firms are investing in new solutions for monitoring the front office in lockdown conditions, but the latest technologies raise concerns about privacy and intrusion.
Space Exploration: How Will Banks Handle Unwanted, Costly Real Estate, Post-Covid?
Financial firms spend a lot of money on office space, but what happens to that space if more employees are working from home? Perhaps something of a WeWork for fintechs is the answer.
UBS Evidence Lab Uses Machine Learning for Maritime Datasets
Financial services firms have been looking to maritime data for economic insight during the coronavirus pandemic.
AI Can Drive Reconciliations Efficiency In Period of Increased Volume
As the coronavirus drives trading volumes, post-trade processing is increasingly an area of operational risk, and firms should consider automation, analyst says.
BlackRock’s Head of Sustainable Research: Covid-19 Could Bring Green Recovery
The ESG space is gaining attention as asset managers try to navigate today's volatile markets. Andre Bertolotti believes this to be more than fad.
Opportunity and Caution Abound with Extra Year for UMR
With the uncleared margin rules deadline extended, firms have an additional year to prepare, but they must do so while navigating the coronavirus pandemic and its economic fallout.
Banks Grapple with VPN Capacity Amid Covid-Induced Network Strain
Private network limitations and variable internet connectivity have challenged operational resiliency and business continuity plans.
UBS’s COO: 'Hybrid Pods' Accelerate Remote Working Solutions Amid Pandemic
Beatriz Martin says the bank has about 400 of these agile development teams—which were first rolled out last year—consisting of about 2,500 people across the organization.
Covid-19 Reveals Need for Better Comms Plug-Ins for Traders
Traders should have real-time voice modules in trading systems and the ability to add detailed notes to replicate trading floor experience.
Geolocation Data Spotlights Covid Recovery
Hedge funds are using geolocation data to both spot signs of a pandemic recovery and to see its ripple-effect damages.
Buy Side Eyes Outsourced Trading Amid Covid Disruption
Pressure on trading continuity drives in-house desks to look outwards
On Cobol and Legacy Systems: Covid-19 Turmoil Calls For Change
Financial industry experts say the time to start future-proofing was yesterday.