S&P Global Market Intelligence
S&P buys ChartIQ to bolster charting, analytics capabilities
ChartIQ’s former owner, Finsemble, will continue to focus on building out its desktop integration business.
BST Awards 2022 Winner's Interview: Cappitech
Cappitech won the best buy-side compliance product (regulatory reporting) category in this year's Buy-Side Technology Awards.
Four years on, S&P's Kensho buy yields new automation tools, saving decades of manual data analysis
S&P-owned AI tool Kensho is leveraging its parent's massive datasets with its own machine learning to release a series of tools for analysts.
Waters Rankings 2022 Winner's Interview: S&P Global Market Intelligence (Cloud-based Application Provider)
S&P Global Market Intelligence won the best cloud-based application provider category in this year’s Waters Rankings.
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 Rankings 2022 Winner's Interview: S&P Global Market Intelligence (Performance and Attribution)
S&P Global Market Intelligence won the best performance measurement and attribution system provider category in this year’s Waters Rankings.
The Emir Refit: Technology and operational implications
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…
IMD & IRD Awards 2022 Winner's Interview: S&P Global Market Intelligence (reference data)
S&P Global Market Intelligence won the best reference data provider category in this year’s IMD & IRD Awards thanks to its Business Entity Cross Reference Solution.
IMD & IRD Awards 2022 winner's interview: S&P Global Market Intelligence (research provider)
S&P Global Market Intelligence won the best research provider category in this year's Inside Market Data & Inside Reference Data Awards.
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.
Waters Wrap: Questions raised by Cusip lawsuit
An investment bank and an asset manager have filed a class-action lawsuit against Cusip Global Services, S&P Global, the ABA and FactSet. Anthony explores some of the questions that such a suit raises.
Class-action lawsuit takes aim at Cusip, S&P, FactSet & ABA
A complaint filed March 4 seeks judgement on whether Cusip Global Services, S&P Global, the American Bankers Association, and (now) FactSet have violated copyright laws as well as the Sherman Antitrust Act by charging hefty licensing fees to use the…
Cusip finds new home at FactSet as industry watches warily
Though the standard has always been operated by a private entity, industry sources say its new operator could create a perception issue for FactSet. For its part, the vendor says the purchase (for a “stunning” total of nearly $2 billion) is meant to…
Meme stocks, Reddit, and QAnon: A postcard from the origin of the metaverse
Join WatersTechnology for a look back at the most absurd stories of the year—Reddit/GameStop, the advent of meme stocks, and QAnon—and what they mean for you.
Disrupting data delivery: AWS Data Exchange gains ground with addition of FactSet content
Leveraging AWS’s presence on Wall Street, Data Exchange has the potential to shake up traditional financial data delivery and contracts, if it can add relevant content and overcome challenges like real-time streaming and connectivity in the cloud.
EC ends S&P’s 53-year era as Cusip’s "cash-cow" operator
Sources ID Ice and DTCC as suitors, but new owners may not bring relief to users paying millions.
Waters Wrap: The expanding battle over reference data identifiers
Bloomberg, Broadridge, and Finra have all recently made news in the world of standards and identifiers. Anthony looks at some of the questions the reporters at WatersTechnology will be asking going forward.