Trading Tech
This Week: Northern Trust/BackRock, Nasdaq, IHS Markit/OpenGamma, MEMX, and More
A summary of some of the past week’s financial technology news.
SmartStream to Add Additional AI Capabilities to Aurora
The reconciliations specialist is also looking to expand its corporate actions offering into the buy side.
Wavelength Podcast Ep. 198: DTCC’s Peve on DLT
Jennifer Peve, managing director of business innovation at the DTCC, discusses the DLT projects the firm is working on, and how the technology has evolved over the last four years.
Covid Provides RPA a Chance to Shine, but Skeptics Remain
The pandemic has highlighted the need for greater automation, leaving some retail banks to embrace RPA, which could seep into the wholesale capital markets.
Pandemic Fuels New Wave of Surveillance Tech
Firms are investing in new solutions for monitoring the front office in lockdown conditions, but the latest technologies raise concerns about privacy and intrusion.
ChartIQ Tightens Charting & Finsemble Integration, Readies Rebrand
Having developed two separate product lines to showcase its charting and smart desktop integration offerings, ChartIQ is now bringing them closer together to solve client needs.
Scrutiny and Frictions Follow EMS Vendors into Fixed Income
Aggregators are facing resistance from venues and attracting the attention of regulators.
UnaVista Rolls Out Reporting Analytics for Performance and Market Surveillance
The regulatory business is developing enhanced analytics to improve reporting accuracy and identify signs of market manipulation.
Cboe Integrates Trade Alert Into Information Solutions Business
The Chicago-based exchange has also released its first integrated solution with risk analytics provider Hanweck, which it acquired in February.
JP Morgan AM to Add Chinese, Japanese to Proprietary NLP Tool
The asset manager could one day make its Textual Analytics tool, which reads millions of documents to derive insights, available to the market at large.
Wavelength Podcast Ep. 197: A Look at Innovation
Benjamin Quinlan, CEO and managing partner at Quinlan & Associates discusses innovation and technology hype.
Banks Need a Hybrid Approach to Cryptography in Face of Quantum Threat
Execs from Barclays, IBM & Post-Quantum discuss why financial firms have to start preparing today for the future of hacking and quantum computing.
MSCI Uses NLP to Measure Company Innovation
The global market index firm is quantifying innovative investments and mapping them to a company’s performance.
Start-Up Brings Video Game Design to Repo Trading, Regulatory Reporting
Hudson Fintech is leveraging the entity component system architecture as it looks to bring in sell-side firms and raise seed funding.
Eventus Systems Uses $10.5m Funding to Advance AI, Double Workforce
The trade surveillance technology provider plans to expand over the next 12 months.
S&P Global Market Intelligence Debuts Marketplace
The data provider has made its new data 'storefront' available after revealing plans to do so earlier this year.
Covid-19: A New Era for Trade Surveillance
As the boundaries between work and home blur, monitoring and privacy may be at odds.
FactSet Datasets Go Live on Snowflake Data Warehouse
FactSet is the first major data provider to make content available via the cloud-based data-warehousing platform.
DTCC: Future of Settlement Revamp Depends on Industry Appetite
Client feedback and priorities will drive the next phase of the market structure firm's project to modernize settlement.
Wavelength Podcast Ep. 196: Bloomberg’s Gerard Francis, Part 3
Bloomberg’s Gerard Francis is back on the podcast to discuss cloud computing and accessibility of data.
Trading Technologies Unveils New Futures Market Data Feed
As the fight over market data fees in the futures market heats up, the Chicago-based trading platform provider is rolling out a new platform that provides a free view of market order flow for TT platform users.
Isda to Release Definitions on Web-Based Platform
The platform will allow users to look up the latest definitions as they execute a trade, with the option to access code for certain definitions using functionality already developed in the Common Domain Model (CDM).
Machine Learning: A Math Problem or a Workflow Problem?
For good reason, machine learning has a highly technical focus. But less talked-about challenges lie in managing the human capital and workflows associated with the tech.
BT Radianz to Add Chinese Alt Datafeeds
Initially, BT Radianz is looking for datasets that could help forecast consumer demand, such as sentiment, consumption, and transactional data.