Strategy
Deutsche Börse seeks seat at tech leader table with SimCorp buy
With exchanges such as Cboe, Nasdaq, LSEG, and ICE leading the pack of exchanges that double as technology companies, the German exchange is playing catch up with its proposed offer for buy-side tech vendor SimCorp.
People Moves: Broadridge, Siepe, Tradeweb and more.
A look at some recent people moves within the capital markets and data space.
A rough race begins: Industry faces uphill transition to T+1 settlement
With T+1 compliance set to begin next May, firms will likely be burdened by reduced IT budgets, existing legacy systems and manual processes over the next 15 months. So, while faster settlement will help innovate the middle and back office, some argue…
Confidential computing won’t save you from data breaches—but it can help
A Google exec and a Stevens Institute director lay out the potential and the pitfalls of this emerging cloud computing technology for data protection.
Large language models: Another AI wave has come—what could it bring?
Since the release of ChatGPT, excitement and hype have been abundant across industries for this form of generative AI. For capital markets, the wave of innovation that could result may be a few years away but it’s worth paying attention to—and being…
Where does Pyth fit in?
A small number of exchanges have joined the Pyth Network. Nyela wonders whether the on-chain data distribution model fits in with the swift rise of data marketplaces.
All the pieces fit: connecting trader voice and messaging across workflows
Cloud9 expands Symphony's communication channels to trader voice, in an effort to simplify workflows as Wall Street struggles with compliant communications.
Symphony wants to be Wall Street’s phone book—but smarter
As Symphony strays further from its original purpose of being a chat platform, WatersTechnology sat down with Brad Levy at this year’s Innovate conference to discuss his vision for the firm.
Continuous evolution: Researchers work to specialize NLP for finance
From academics to data teams at investment banks, those in and adjacent to the capital markets are looking to specialize natural language processing models to understand and break down financial data.
After switch to Google, Symphony begins data migration for clients
Symphony decided to first migrate client data to Google from AWS, and then focus on applications.
Post-acquisition, Ion’s List eyes OTC market
List is integrating its Janus product suite with Clarus Financial Technology’s OTC risk management system.
People Moves: FactSet, Talos, Broadridge, and more
A look at some of the key "people moves" from this week, including Neal Pawar (pictured), who joins Talos as a strategic adviser.
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.
A consolidated effort: State Street and FactSet look to take interop to the next level
Firms aim to provide a front-to-back data flow for asset managers, forming “deeper relationships” with their clients.
People Moves: Broadridge, Tradeweb, Ice, FCA, and more
A look at some of the key people moves from this week, including Rana Yared (pictured), who joins the board of Tradeweb as an independent director and a member of the audit committee.
People Moves: ASX, Northern Trust, MSCI, Asifma, and more
A look at some of the key people moves from this week, including Jonathan Cross (pictured), who joins LiquidityBook as general manager for EMEA.
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.
This Week: Goldman Sachs, MSCI/MarketAxess, Cboe/ErisX, & more
A summary of the latest financial technology news.
This Week: FIS/Microsoft, Bloomberg/MSCI, Higo/Tora, & more
A summary of the latest financial technology news.