Banks
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.
LSEG’s Refinitiv to deliver Real-Time Full Tick data on the cloud in 2023
The data vendor has 19 points of presence from where it will provide co-located access to the new managed services by Q2 2023.
LiquidityBook looks to displace Fidessa as sell-side OMS of choice
What began as a small buy-side technology offering, now has ambitions to oust Fidessa in the sell-side OMS space. LiquidityBook, now armed with a handful of ex-Fidessa employees, has secured the product expertise. Can it secure the clients?
BMO CIO: Open source boosts internal risk platform performance
The bank’s proprietary solution uses Apache Spark to calculate forward-looking loss scenarios in its loan portfolios.
Is disruption finally coming for the index business?
Regulatory developments and startups gaining some ground may—one day—threaten the incumbent providers in this space.
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.”
TransFicc builds its own datacenters to cut outsourcing costs
The Ion competitor is looking for better control, lower latency, and improved redundancy.
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.
People Moves: EDM Council, Jacobi Asset Management, Versana, SIIA, and more
A look at some of the key "people moves" from this week, including Linda Avery (pictured), who joins the EDM Council's board of directors.
People Moves: Tradeweb, Ion, Burton-Taylor, HKEx, and more
A look at some of the key people moves from this week, including Thomas Pluta (pictured), who joins Tradeweb as president-elect.
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.
Project Octopus becomes Octaura, killing BofA’s Instinct platform and Citi Velocity trading protocol
Backed by the banks in the Project Octopus consortium, the new, independent company will launch this year with a focus on new trading protocols and integrated data analytics. At the same time, Bank of America will sunset its single-dealer loan trading…
This Week: Microsoft/CaixaBank, Bloomberg, Cboe/Morningstar & More
A summary of the latest financial technology news.
Symphony brings Web3 to KYC with new ID service pilot
Symphony Communication Services is piloting an experimental ID service that uses Web3 and DeFi concepts to automate and reduce the burden of tasks like know-your-customer, onboarding, and reporting.
LSEG-MayStreet: From direct feeds revamp to reg tools, industry sources outline rationale for deal
The acquisition of the 10-year-old vendor will give the exchange group high-quality market data, low-latency direct feeds, and packet-capture capabilities, experts say.
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.
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.
This Week: Goldman Sachs, MSCI/MarketAxess, Cboe/ErisX, & more
A summary of the latest financial technology news.
This Week: Ice, SS&C/Morningstar, Deutsche Börse/DataBP, RBC & More
A summary of the latest financial technology news.
Trumid, SGX Asia bonds JV faces uncertain future
Costly delays to launch of exchange sees backers slash headcount
This Week: FIS/Microsoft, Bloomberg/MSCI, Higo/Tora, & more
A summary of the latest financial technology news.
This Week: Cboe, Ice, ABN AMRO/Temenos & more
A summary of the latest financial technology news.
People Moves: Saxo Bank, Eventus Systems, TickSmith, and more
A look at some of the key "people moves" from this week, including Barry Raskin (pictured), who joins TickSmith as head of the vendor’s data practice.