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A summary of the latest financial technology news.
Thomson Reuters Embarks on Cloud Content Strategy to Boost Data Access
Enhancing its Elektron Data Platform to include data on the cloud and embedding data into SAP’s Market Rates Management platform are the first steps of Thomson Reuters’ cloud strategy.
ION's Openlink Acquisition Shows Deeper Strategic Moves at Work
The Openlink deal is the latest in a string of acquisitions by ION as it consolidates power in treasury, derivatives and commodities, with the help of Carlyle Group.
Best Enterprise Data Management Vendor: SAP
IMD/IRD Awards 2016
Bussmann Departs as CIO of UBS, Lehmann to Temporarily Replace
Social media and blockchain advocate resigns from Swiss bank to pursue external opportunities.
Zurich Insurance Completes Two-Year Data Migration Effort
Project reduces cost and complexity at global insurance firm
Digitization's Second Wave Finds Buy Side Seeking Wisdom From Within
Buy-side digitization has traditionally focused on making the client-facing portal right, often spending years and millions of dollars in the process of perfecting a front end. While that still remains a priority, technologists tell Tim Bourgaize Murray…
Misys Names Simon Paris as President and Chief Sales Officer
Simon Paris, former global head of financial services at SAP’s Industry Cloud, has joined Misys as the firm's president and chief sales officer.
The #CIO: UBS Group CIO Oliver Bussmann
How the Swiss giant's information chief derives value in 140 characters or less
Rimes Promotes Larzillière to President, France
Benchmark and economic data provider Rimes Technologies has appointed Renaud Larzillière the new president of its Paris office.
SAP Connects Apps to Interactive Data
Interactive Data's users can now plug their applications straight into the data provider's database
SAP Makes a Push in Financial Services
SAP operates across 25 industries. Four years ago, according to a representative of the German software giant, financial services was the 16th most significant of those, squeezing just in between chemical and footwear and apparel.
Rimes Appoints New French Head
Renaud Larzilliere has been appointed director general for the French operations of the managed data services vendor, after four years at the company
Wainwright to Head SAP Financial Biz
Data management and analytics technology provider SAP has named Ross Wainwright global head of financial services industries in Chicago, responsible for the vendor's banking, insurance and capital markets clients worldwide.
Wainwright Takes Over Financial Services Business at SAP
SAP, the Walldorf, Germany-based software company, today announced the appointment of Ross Wainwright as its global head of financial services industries.
Risk Management: Time to Get Real
It wasn’t long ago that it was acceptable for capital markets firms to manage their risk on an overnight basis, computing their various measures through lengthy batch processes while the markets slept. But that all changed with the 2008 credit crisis as…
Real-Time Risk Management webcast
Waters gathered leading industry experts for a webcast on June 26, 2013 to discuss how financial trading firms are looking to aggregate their risk exposure on a real-time basis and the challenges they face.
SAP Unifies Cloud Under HANA
SAP has announced that it will bring its portfolio of cloud offerings into alignment with the HANA platform, giving a single point for cloud-based technology from the vendor.
Key challenges in data architecture
Complex, dated and unwieldy data infrastructure is not uncommon among even the most progressive companies in the world of finance. As financial regulations continue to expand and new markets produce a growing influx of data for companies to collect,…