Risk
Podcast: Leveraging real-time data feeds for faster business decisions
The markets have been on a very volatile ride in 2022, which makes low-latency data more crucial to the business.
Chill winds blow for Capitolis’s equity swap platform
The fintech’s effort to revive off-balance-sheet funding runs into market and regulatory turbulence.
EU Regulator: Incoming rules will arm financial institutions to negotiate cloud contracts
While the new rules will eat into financial services resources, regulators say they will also offer safeguards for managing cloud agreements.
Mainframes still mainstream: How financial markets are embracing and evolving 'legacy' IT
Tech giant IBM is targeting security, AI, and portability in the modernization of the mainframe as firms report still retaining “the workhorse of the back office.”
Waters Wrap: The buy side, the changing nature of buy v. build, and how fintech has evolved
Neal Pawar, the former CTO of AQR and current COO of Qontigo, chats with Anthony about some of the major trends that are changing how asset managers interact with the vendor community, and how this shift mirrors the most significant evolutions in capital…
Post-acquisition, Ion’s List eyes OTC market
List is integrating its Janus product suite with Clarus Financial Technology’s OTC risk management system.
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.
Waters Wrap: Fintech funding—follow the money
As funding for startups and young companies dries up due to inflation and rising interest rates, Anthony looks at some of the vendors that have received monetary infusions this year to see if there are any patterns to be gleaned.
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.
Banks may spend ‘billions’ to stop quantum hacking threat
Quantum-proof algo standards are nearing completion, but enhanced cryptography won’t come cheap.
The Emir Refit Playbook
The upcoming Emir Refit regulation, set to enter the European Union’s statute books in the first half of 2024, is different in substance to the regulations preceding it, although the implications of complying with it are similar: firms will need to…
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.
SocGen to move datacenter footprint in Americas to AWS, Azure
SG Americas plans to significantly reduce and even close datacenters in the US as a result of moving to the cloud and defining controls around cloud and data governance.
Compliance technology: Challenges, opportunities and what firms want
Governance, risk and compliance (GRC) requirements are a necessary evil of the industry and are one of the costs of doing business for all capital markets firms.
Compliance technology—Challenges, opportunities and what firms want
GRC requirements are a necessary evil of the industry and are one of the costs of doing business for all capital markets firms.
Waters Wrap: The Big Tech cloud providers are coming for your toys
Anthony thinks that the fintech community should be looking over their shoulders as the major cloud providers are going to disrupt financial markets even more than they do today.
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.
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.
Is an EMS an exchange? Vendors alarmed by scope of Reg ATS amendments
Some industry participants are worried that proposed amendments to Regulation ATS could see the trading perimeter expanded to include a wide array of messaging systems.
This Week: Deutsche Bank/FinLync, State Street/Paxos, Glue42/AllianceBernstein & More
A summary of the latest financial technology news.
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.
How Russia’s war on Ukraine impacts the global IT industry
Businesses with staff based in Ukraine reckon with an unprecedented juggling act.