Surveillance
Nasdaq rolls out new fixed-income trade surveillance alerts
The vendor is introducing additional alerts for trade surveillance to help tailor its solution for OTC fixed income.
Vendors push voice data across the trade lifecycle
Through partnerships and acquisitions, communications vendors are integrating voice data into different parts of the trade lifecycle to offer more sophisticated analytics and easier user interfaces.
People Moves: SteelEye, Northern Trust, LPA, Tora, and more
A look at some of the key "people moves" from this week, including Brian Lynch (pictured), who joins SteelEye as president of US operations.
From burst to bust: What happens when cloud runs dry?
After years of initial resistance, the capital markets have come to depend heavily on the compute capacity of the public cloud. But increasing market volumes are rapidly outpacing the cloud capacity that organizations thought would be sufficient for…
People Moves: Baton, Broadridge, BNY Mellon, Eventus, and more
A look at some of the key "people moves" from this week, including Mike Johnson (pictured), who joins Broadridge as VP and global product manager of derivatives clearing.
This Week: Bloomberg, VoxSmart–GreenKey, EDM Council, Northern Trust, Anna-DSB, and more
A summary of some of the past week’s financial technology news.
This Week: Macrobond/FactSet, Tradweb, Bloomberg, DTCC, and more
A summary of some of the past week’s financial technology news.
People Moves: FactSet, AFMA, Finos, Tradeweb and more
A look at some of the key "people moves" from this week, including Linda Huber (pictured), who joins FactSet as chief financial officer.
Waters Wrap: Cloud, AI, Interop: The evolutions driving fixed-income progress
Anthony believes these advancements will provide the opening for Big Tech firms to created outsized influence that will change financial technology forever.
Rimes shutters market surveillance business amid strategy overhaul
The data management firm is undergoing a multi-year program to unravel its surveillance business, as it looks to throw its weight behind its flagship data offerings.
Now that Oats is scrapped, regulators will have to (Cat)ch up
Retiring Oats is a milestone on the long and winding road to Cat implementation, but the SEC must make some major decisions in a very short timeframe before the Cat journey is over.
Farewell, Oats: Finra announces retirement date
Finra has told firms to stop reporting trades to the Oats tape from September 1, as the SEC's Cat becomes the definitive audit trail for US securities markets activity.
Waters Wrap: ‘Exponential technologies’ & the changing face of trading (And interop)
Evolutions in the realms of cloud, AI, and surveillance/encryption are making the possibility of a decentralized trading ecosystem more real. Anthony looks at how progress in these areas—as well as the interoperability push—will forever change the…
Oats retirement imminent as Cat maintains data quality, Finra says
Oats reporting could be fully migrated to the Consolidated Audit Trail and the Oats system retired as early as June 30.
Video surveillance data: Useful or not?
While some technology vendors say video communication surveillance can help monitor serious compliance breaches, others see such data as a source of additional contextual information.
This Week: Bloomberg, Ice, DTCC, & More
A summary of some of the past week's financial technology news.
Vendors add surveillance support for WhatsApp alternatives
Concerns about data leakage have driven some users to rival privacy-focused messaging apps like Telegram and Signal, as WhatsApp policy changes come into force on May 15.
People Moves: HSBC AM, Trumid, SIX, and more
A look at some of the key "people moves" from this week, including Paul Griffiths (pictured) who has been appointed global head of institutional business at HSBC Asset Management.
Bloomberg’s new data retention policy vexes buy-side firms
Impacted users will have to pay extra costs to retain communications data for longer than two years.
Engineers tap machine learning to improve graph analytics
Augmenting graph analytics with AI can detect more complicated anomalies, vendors say.
SEC attorney defends personal information in the Cat
Regulators will need biographical information to get the most out of the Consolidated Audit Trail, advisor said, as broker-dealers and exchanges argue over liability for breaches.
This Week: SGX/Trumid/Hillhouse, Northern Trust/IHS Markit, LME, Six, and more
A summary of some of the past week’s financial technology news.
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EU firms face operational burdens if UK denied data protection adequacy
A no-adequacy decision could create new logistical issues for compliance teams and data managers operating across the UK and the EEA.
Crunch Time for Covid-Era Tech
Covid culture is set to continue this year, as are the associated changes to working practices in the financial markets and the technologies that support them. Max wonders what the new ‘virtual’ reality will look like in 2021 and beyond.