Operations
INTL FCStone Takes Paxos Precious Metals Confirmation Platform
The platform automates trade confirmations, reconciles transactions and aims to minimize operational errors.
Barclays Leads Pack on $14 Million Funding Round for Cloud9 Platform
The platform aims to modernize communications among counterparties and deliver sophisticated data analytics.
Bitfinex Joins Market Synergy’s Crypto Connectivity Infrastructure
The network will provide the crypto exchange with access to institutional clients and co-location services.
Style Analytics Appoints New Sales, Marketing Chiefs
The latest hires aims to strengthen executive team and drive growth.
Code Red: Trading Firms Turn to AI for System Stability
As IT systems are buckling under the pressure of modern day trading volumes and regulatory requirements, some firms are turning to AI to predict and minimize outages.
Team Player: Peter Clark, Standard Chartered
Peter Clark, CIO for Greater China and North Asia (GCNA) at Standard Chartered, talks with Waters about the projects they're working on and the team he's built.
LSEG Acquires Minority Share in AcadiaSoft
LSEG is looking to improve its non-clearing services with this latest deal.
Deutsche Bank Migrates Ops Processes to SmartStream
The global investment bank will offload services to cut costs and inefficiencies.
Location, Location, Location
The Australian Securities Exchange outlines key considerations for firms weighing up their choice of co-location facility.
Singapore Exchange Hits Back at India’s Data Pull
Indian market regulator Sebi is terminating its three exchanges’ existing market data licensing agreements with foreign partners.
Market Cops Turn to Crime-Fighting Robots
An expanding use of artificial intelligence is taking over surveillance practices, but some believe there are limits to what can be achieved.
Bea Martin: The Glue That Bonds UBS
In the April 2018 cover story of Waters, UBS Investment Bank's COO, Beatriz Martín Jiménez, talks with Victor Anderson about blockchain, AI and some of the hurdles she has faced in her career.
Asia’s New Tigers: Exchanges Overhaul Aging Systems
Waters looks at major projects being rolled out in 2018 at exchanges in Japan, Australia, Hong Kong and Singapore.
MUFG Investor Services Taps Point Nine's Middle-Office Platform to Help with Reg Reporting
The partnership is exclusive to MUFG and will also help Point Nine add pre-trade analytics to its offering.
Hurricane Mike: Urciuoli Storms JPMorgan Asset & Wealth Management
JPMorgan Asset and Wealth Management's CIO brings the pace of the trading floor to asset management.
Changing the Wheels on a Moving Car
Trying to figure out how to keep an organization moving forward, while looking forward, is one of the hardest challenges in fintech today.
Roger Worthington to Head AxiomSL’s New Product Ops Team
Worthington has more than two decades’ experience building and managing shared infrastructure.
iMeta Hires Former Capita Operations Director for COO Role
Steve Piper will manage day-to-day operations at iMeta.
Buy Side Bands Together on Blockchain Vision in Landmark Paper
Fund managers, vendors and trade associations release joint paper on making distributed-ledger technology work for the buy side.
Chicago Code: A Profile of DRW's Seth Thomson
Seth Thomson, CIO of DRW, talks to Waters about his career, innovation and how the firm has expanded into new asset classes, including cryptocurrencies.
AFTAs 2017: Best Data Management Initiative—Deutsche Bank
Since its launch two-and-a-half years ago, 7,800 data issues have been registered; 4,900 data issues have been consolidated; 1,100 data issues have been resolved; and 1,800 issues remain open and visible, each with a descriptive business case allowing…
AFTAs 2017: Most Innovative Third-Party Technology Vendor—Risk, Compliance and Reporting—Imagine Software
The hallmark of a truly innovative technology vendor is its ability to rapidly respond to changes in the market and address its clients’ demands by developing and delivering a new solution that provides exactly what is required of it. New York-based…
FIS Derivatives Utility Signs Wedbush as First Non-Bank FCM
Wedbush is the third client win for the utility, which is rolling out a new clearing platform in 2018.
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2017: Best Buy-Side TCA Tool—Tradeweb Markets
Tradeweb’s competitive advantage lies in that as an execution venue, it has its own propriety pricing mechanism