Acadian Taps Microsoft for Predictive Signals
For Acadian Asset Management, the hunt for new opportunities arising from alternative datasets is nothing new. Ryan Stever, director of global macro quantitative research at Acadian, says the firm has...
View ArticleAsian Insurer AIA Hatches Eagle for Data Consolidation, IBOR
Pan-Asian insurance company AIA Group is to roll out Eagle Investment Systems’ data management platform with managed services, and Eagle Access secure private cloud, to support the firm’s consolidation...
View ArticleIntesa Sanpaolo Taps Bloomberg for IFRS 9 SPPI Compliance Data
Italian banking group Intesa Sanpaolo has begun using Bloomberg’s securities instrument data and SPPI (Solely Payments of Principal and Interest) security assessment service to meet the International...
View ArticleWall Street Horizon Serves Whole Enchilada to Interactive Brokers Workstation...
Institutional and retail electronic brokerage Interactive Brokers has incorporated all the event data types provided by Boston-based event data vendor Wall Street Horizon into its IB Trader Workstation...
View ArticleVidaCaixa Taps SimCorp for Data Management, Compliance, Risk Management
Spanish insurance company VidaCaixa is rolling out SimCorp’s Dimension product as its new front and middle office platform, to provide data management, IBOR (investment book of record), compliance,...
View ArticleAn Engineer of Change: State Street CDO James Hardy
James Hardy’s career began with a baptism by fire. On his first full day on the job—Oct. 19, 1987—building computer systems for London’s banks at BIS Banking Systems, the global stock markets crashed,...
View ArticleCapital Group Taps Bloomberg for Muni Evaluations
Los Angeles-based asset manager Capital Group is to roll out Bloomberg’s BVAL evaluated pricing service to benchmark and validate end-of-day values for municipal bond positions.
View ArticleHSBC Taps Fenergo for Client Compliance Management
HSBC has rolled out regulatory onboarding and entity data management software vendor Fenergo’s Client Lifecycle Management platform across its Global Banking and Markets business.
View ArticleOppenheimer Expands GoldenSource Deal to Hosted Services for KYC, AML
New York-based investment bank and fund manager Oppenheimer & Co has begun using hosted data management services from enterprise data management platform provider GoldenSource in conjunction with...
View ArticleStanChart to Join Thomson Reuters African KYC Service
Standard Chartered Bank has confirmed it will join Thomson Reuters’ African KYC managed service, which provides Know Your Customer due diligence for firms in South Africa, after completing a review and...
View ArticleCredit Agricole Singapore Employs AxiomSL’s Regulatory Data Solution
The Singaporean unit of Credit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank is implementing AxiomSL’s regulatory data management solution to support compliance with reporting mandates from the Monetary...
View ArticleColchis, Alcova Tap AQMetrics for Risk, Reg Reporting
San Francisco-based investment manager Colchis Capital Management has selected Dublin-based regulatory risk and compliance technology provider AQMetrics to help the firm meet its regulatory and...
View ArticleNAFIS 2017: Firms Dip Their Toes into Data Lakes for Analytics
As the amount of data captured by financial firms continues to grow, making sense of it and utilizing analytics effectively is becoming more important, prompting firms to consider building “data...
View ArticleGlenmede Taps IHS Markit for Data Management
Philadelphia-based investment and wealth manager Glenmede Trust Company has selected data and technology provider IHS Markit’s Enterprise Data Management Platform and EDM Warehouse for its data...
View ArticleAussie Gov Fund QIC Sics Eagle on Data Management, Performance
Australian investment manager QIC (the Queensland Investment Corporation) has rolled out Eagle Investment Systems’ enterprise data management and performance and attribution tools, hosted on the Eagle...
View ArticleNZFMA Taps Bloomberg’s B-Pipe Feed for Rates Pricing
The New Zealand Financial Markets Association (NZFMA), the professional body of the country’s institutional banking profession, has struck a deal to use Bloomberg’s B-Pipe consolidated market data feed...
View ArticleCLSA Taps Symphony for Internal Data-Sharing, Client Communications
Hong Kong-based broker and investment firm CLSA has rolled out secure messaging provider Symphony Communication Services’ collaboration platform as its primary workflow tool, vendor officials say.
View ArticleSantander Picks Fenergo for Client Lifecycle Management
Santander Global Corporate Banking will implement Fenergo’s client lifecycle management (CLM) platform in Europe, the Americas and Asia, across multiple business lines, starting with the UK.
View ArticleEC Taps Macrobond for Research Data
The Directorate General Economic and Financial Affairs (DG ECFIN), the department of the European Commission responsible for encouraging the development of Economic and Monetary Union within and...
View ArticleAcadian ‘Un-follows’ Microsoft Bing
Boston-based Acadian Asset Management has wound down the partnership it formed in March with Microsoft’s Bing Predicts social media data division. The $91 billion quantitative asset manager says it has...
View ArticleFormer Lime, Townsend CEO Wecker Returns to Goldman Sachs as CDO
Goldman Sachs has appointed veteran data and trading technology senior executive Jeff Wecker partner and chief data officer, responsible for data governance and architecture throughout the firm.
View ArticleBNP, Quincy Tap Enyx FPGA Handlers for Low-Latency Data
French bank BNP Paribas is to use New York-based hardware feed handler vendor Enyx’s nxFeed FPGA feed handlers for high-performance market access in the Americas, Europe and Asia, as part of a...
View ArticleQuantitative Brokers Taps Roth for CEO, Ascher as Chairman
New York-based broker-dealer and trading technology and analytics provider Quantitative Brokers has hired technology and data industry veteran Ralf Roth as CEO, and former ISE executive Thomas Ascher...
View ArticleING Sharpens ‘Katana’ for AI Bond Pricing Boost
Dutch banking group ING has introduced Katana, an artificial intelligence tool that uses data from hundreds of thousands of trades to help traders on ING’s emerging markets desk in London to price...
View ArticleWay Fund Managers Taps OTCFin-Morningstar Combo for Priips Compliance
Bournemouth, UK-based asset manager Way Fund Managers is to deploy a regulatory data and information management solution jointly operated by New York-based risk and regulatory data management and...
View ArticleCiti Pays $11.5M in Finra Fines and Compensation for Ratings Failings
US regulator Finra (the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority) has fined Citigroup $5.5 million and ordered the firm to pay $6 million in compensation to retail investors for displaying inaccurate...
View ArticleMetzler AM Taps Visible Alpha for Mifid II Research Compliance
Frankfurt-based Metzler Asset Management has rolled out New York-based research platform vendor Visible Alpha’s ONEaccess Platform to identify, monitor and value investment research for compliance with...
View ArticleRaymond James Enlists Red Deer for Mifid II Research
Raymond James, a provider of investment banking, asset management and financial planning services, has chosen financial technology and data discovery provider Red Deer Systems to manage its Mifid II...
View ArticleVanguard Pilots Blockchain for Index Data Management
Last month, US asset manager Vanguard revealed it had partnered on a blockchain project with the Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP) and blockchain technology vendor Symbiont to create a...
View ArticleBMO InvestorLine Adds OTC Markets Data for Canadian Investors
Canadian Broker BMO InvestorLine has begun distributing real-time market data from New York-based over-the-counter stock market OTC Markets Group to its clients, to help them find new trading...
View ArticleData Head Jones Departs BarCap
Amanda Jones, global head of market data at Barclays Capital, has left the bank after almost 12 years.
View ArticleBalyasny AM Hoists Antenna for Evaluating Alternative Datasets
Chicago-based Balyasny Asset Management has rolled out a service for analyzing third-party alternative datasets faster than traditional evaluations, to determine whether they can deliver better returns...
View ArticleBNY Mellon Taps Barr for CDO
Former HSBC and Bridgewater Associates data executive Gary Barr joined BNY Mellon in January as chief data officer.
View ArticleGuardian Taps NeoXam for Data Management
New York-based Guardian Life Company of America is to deploy French financial technology vendor NeoXam’s DataHub data management platform to support its investment reporting functions, investment book...
View ArticleSocGen Taps Big XYT for Liquidity Analytics
Société Générale Corporate and Investment Bank has signed up to use Frankfurt-based data-as-a-service provider Big XYT’s Liquidity Cockpit service, which will provide additional analytics and insight...
View ArticleGoldman Builds Team to Sell In-House Alt Data
Goldman Sachs is in the early stages of building a team of quantitative researchers within its securities division, to identify internal sources of “alternative data” that might be valuable to clients...
View ArticleGermany’s RSU Taps GoldenSource for Shared Landesbank Data Service
Enterprise data management platform vendor GoldenSource has begun rolling out its Market Data Solution at RSU Rating Service Unit, a credit rating agency and provider of IT services to German...
View ArticleMorgan Stanley Moves Beaton to Head US Trade and Transaction Reporting
Morgan Stanley has promoted Joshua Beaton—previously program manager for the bank’s work towards the SEC-mandated Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT) and head of US regulatory reporting—to the role of head...
View ArticleOrient Express: Accelerating the Rise of the CDO in Asia
Chief data officers have become well established at a global level within many large international financial firms, driven in part by the regulatory onslaught that followed the 2008 financial crisis....
View ArticleTOFIS Panel: Data Linkages Pose Key Challenges to Alt Data Use
Alternative data is delivering benefits to financial firms in the form of new types of analytics, but also brings its own set of challenges, according to panelists who spoke at this year’s Toronto...
View ArticleTOFIS Keynote: National Bank of Canada Uses AI to ‘Brew’ a Richer Blend of...
Artificial intelligence offers banks the opportunity to create more value from data and rewrite the way they interact with and deliver that value to clients, said Alexis Gouslisty, head of data...
View ArticleJP Morgan Data Scientist Eyes Insights from Internal Data
The use of new data types is all the rage among investment firms. But JP Morgan Asset Management is not solely relying on offerings such as aerial photos of shopping mall parking lots for a steer on...
View ArticleFool’s Gold: Data Mining Digs Up Explosive Errors
Empirical science is reeling. In the past five years, in fields from biomedicine to social psychology, top academic journals have upended canonical studies by showing their results cannot be reproduced.
View ArticleOpen Platform: How Financial Firms Can Minimize GDPR Risk
GDPR is now in force, and financial firms that are not yet compliant face hefty fines. Greg Sparrow, SVP and general manager at compliance, security and privacy services and software vendor...
View ArticleState Street Exec: Data Quality Poses Challenges for ESG-Conscious Investors
State Street Global Exchange’s head of research says investors still struggle to measure ESG impact on their portfolios, despite growing demand for ESG insights.
View ArticleTwo Sigma Offloads Data ‘Wrangling’ to Crux
By offloading its data processing to Crux, Two Sigma will be able to accelerate data acquisition efforts.
View ArticleSafra Names Brazil Exchange Vet Castro CIO
Castro has more than 25 years of experience in systems development, markets infrastructure technology and exchange market data.
View ArticleHSBC Expands Content, Reach of Research App on Symphony
The bank says its research app is already one of the most popular on Symphony's messaging platform.
View ArticleFor Buy Side, ESG, Alt Data Are Necessary Cost to ‘Recapture Alpha’
Alternative and ESG datasets hold the promise of delivering better and more predictable returns for investors, but are some firms underestimating the amount of work required to integrate these into...
View ArticleNasdaq, User Groups Fire Opening Salvoes in Looming Battle Over SIP Data Fees
As the SEC prepares to host a two-day event to tackle market data access and fee issues, industry user groups and Nasdaq have laid out their positions on SIP reform. Max Bowie reports.
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