Data
People Moves: Rimes, Broadridge, TP Icap, Sifma, and more
A look at some of the key "people moves" from this week, including Justin Brickwood (pictured), who joins Rimes as head of benchmark data services.
This Week: Trading Technologies, Goldman Sachs/Digital Asset, SimCorp/Citi and more
A summary of some of the past week’s financial technology news.
Buy one, get one free: Algos learn to multi-task
For years, brokers have offered suites of algorithms, each geared toward a certain strategy and outcome. Now, firms are compressing these into multifaceted algorithms that can switch between different strategies or markets in response to trading…
SGX to roll out new market data licensing, usage tool
The exchange is partnering with DataBP to offer an online portal that includes customer-facing tools and back-office automation.
FIS modernizes through modularity
The vendor has been in the process of overhauling its entire tech estate for almost seven years, with the aim of offering modular, flexible services.
People Moves: Charles River, Causality Link, Preqin, and more
A look at some of the key people moves from this week, including Caroline O'Shaughnessy (pictured), who joins Charles River Development as Emea head.
Bank of Montreal begins 2nd phase of cloud migration and development strategy
Similar to its competitors, BMO wants the future development of financial services tools to be cloud-native. The bank expects 30% of workflows to be moved to the cloud within three years.
Helping Firms Make the Most Informed Business Decisions
Stephane Rio, founder and CEO of Opensee, discusses the extent of the data challenges facing all capital markets firms
Six partners with BMLL for best execution analysis
The Swiss exchange is using the vendor's data and analytics to provide insight to brokers around Swiss EBBO liquidity.
Waters Wrap: Examining Digital Asset’s DLT strategy (and its broader implications)
Digital Asset has slowly expanded its influence with exchanges in the APAC region, and this year has made additional inroads in the US and Europe. Anthony examines the company's wins and losses over the last seven years.
Murky road ahead for consolidated tape plan administrator in the US
The business unit of the new equities data plan could revolutionize pricing and accessibility in the public feeds of NMS data, say hopefuls to the role, but litigation and lack of clarity obscure the path forward.
Anna Service Bureau upgrade aims to evolve with emerging data landscape
Modernization will help numbering agency data hub adapt to new technologies and improve data quality post-Isin review.
This Week: SmartStream, LSEG/Finbourne, FactSet/Cobalt, DTCC, BNP Paribas, and more
A summary of some of the past week’s financial technology news.
Ex-UBS Asset Management CDO takes aim at challenge of data discovery
Suvrat Bansal’s startup aims to make it easier to get data into the hands of those who need it, but who may not know it exists, faster.
Northern Trust focuses on alpha generation with recent investments, partnerships
Northern Trust has invested in three firms this year, which now sit in its investment data science division as part of its Whole Office strategy.
SmartStream’s Cloud Offering: Steadfast, Scalable and Secure
SmartStream Sibos Series
From burst to bust: What happens when cloud runs dry?
After years of initial resistance, the capital markets have come to depend heavily on the compute capacity of the public cloud. But increasing market volumes are rapidly outpacing the cloud capacity that organizations thought would be sufficient for…
SFDR pushes fund administrators to rethink ESG offerings
Some fund admins prefer to build ESG products in-house, while others, notably Northern Trust, consider it ‘inefficient’ from a cost and time perspective.
Definition of a trading venue: Reg review risks ensnarling tech vendors
Industry participants are divided over the definition of a trading venue and how regulators should revise the regulatory framework.
Broadridge data ontology aims to simplify multi-asset trade data
The tech provider is using the ontology internally to integrate multiple systems and sees prospects for wider industry adoption.
SimCorp takes ‘Aim’ at EDM space with DataCare rollout
Since launching DataCare in April 2020, the vendor has signed up eight clients, including Zurich Group Investment Management.
People Moves: Canoe Intelligence, Transcend, Clear Street, Gresham Technologies, and more
A look at some of the key "people moves" from this week, including Vishal Saxena (pictured), who joins Canoe Intelligence as chief technology officer.
Bank consortium led by SocGen seeks to cure post-trade data ills
Project led by Societe Generale that uses privacy-enhancing technologies to solve data management issues hopes to sign up five banks and launch as a legal entity.