Development
Advancements in NLP bring focus to document insight
Vendors are looking to provide AI models to help financial professionals get more value out of unstructured data sources.
Adaptive pushes low-latency open-source messaging
The London-based consultancy is looking to engage firms and exchanges on its Aeron messaging technology, which it acquired earlier this year.
Retooling repo: How Broadridge, Bloomberg, Tradeweb, and JP Morgan are modernizing repurchase agreements
From brokers to trading platform providers, players in the repo market are focused on initiatives around reducing settlement fails, increasing automation, and streamlining operations.
People Moves: EDM Council, Jacobi Asset Management, Versana, SIIA, and more
A look at some of the key "people moves" from this week, including Linda Avery (pictured), who joins the EDM Council's board of directors.
In finance, all APIs are not created equal
With the rise of APIs, it’s easier than ever for companies to position themselves as open to collaboration and eager to provide access, but some of these access points tell a different story under the hood.
People Moves: Tradeweb, Ion, Burton-Taylor, HKEx, and more
A look at some of the key people moves from this week, including Thomas Pluta (pictured), who joins Tradeweb as president-elect.
FDC3 updates interop standard with 2.0 rollout as adoption grows
Finos gets ahead of FDC3’s critical mass by making breaking changes to the desktop interop standard, including baked-in data exchange.
Financial crime vendors respond to Ukraine demand
Anti-money laundering laws and sanctions have brought complexity to banks' KYC/AML processes. Some vendors are responding by investing in their systems.
Project Octopus becomes Octaura, killing BofA’s Instinct platform and Citi Velocity trading protocol
Backed by the banks in the Project Octopus consortium, the new, independent company will launch this year with a focus on new trading protocols and integrated data analytics. At the same time, Bank of America will sunset its single-dealer loan trading…
Development bank aims for better settlement with blockchain prototype
R3 is among the companies working with the regional bank on a proof-of-concept to bring efficiencies to cross-border securities transactions.
When machine learning goes awry, here's how to do better next time
Executives from JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley, and BNY Mellon discuss the lessons learned through experimenting with machine learning at their firms.
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.
Natixis: Interop is a buy-side “necessity”
The asset manager is building front-office interoperability based on a canonical data model.
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.
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.
How Russia’s war on Ukraine impacts the global IT industry
Businesses with staff based in Ukraine reckon with an unprecedented juggling act.
People Moves: TP Icap, Nasdaq, CFTC, and more
A look at some of the key "people moves" from this week, including Mark Govoni (pictured), who joins TP Icap as the chief executive officer of its agency execution division.
Finos project seeks fully open-source FDC3 implementations
New initiative aims to provide a free, open-source Electron-based reference implementation of the FDC3 standard.
People Moves: Saxo Bank, Eventus Systems, TickSmith, and more
A look at some of the key "people moves" from this week, including Barry Raskin (pictured), who joins TickSmith as head of the vendor’s data practice.
UBS turns to containerization for its cloud dev ops, security strategies
As the bank has moved 33% of workloads to both public and private clouds, UBS spent the past 12 months building out its enterprise security controls as part of its containerization efforts.
People Moves: Cboe, Broadridge, DTCC, Liquidnet, and more
A look at some of the key "people moves" from this week, including Stephanie Renner (pictured), who has been named senior vice president of international finance at Cboe Global Markets.
People Moves: BNP Paribas, HKEX, Broadway, BMLL, and more
A look at some of the key people moves from this week, including Tim Baker (pictured), who joins BMLL as senior advisor.