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Isda 'Create' Marks Important First Step Toward Smart Contracts
WatersTechnology goes inside Isda Create to see how the organization is aiming to bridge the gap between the worlds of paper contracts and legal data.
Waters Wrap: Snowflake Makes its Move (And Ref Data Headaches & Data-Sourcing-as-a-Service)
Anthony explores how Snowflake is trying to win over business in the cap markets, talks about the reference data space, and examines a new breed of data vendors.
Numbering Agency Calls for Experts
The Derivatives Service Bureau is looking for new members on its technical advisory committee, after its designation as the UPI service provider.
SteelEye Unveils Tool to Slash Trade Reconstruction Timeframes
Officials say the new product will enable firms to aggregate and correlate the data required to fulfill trade reconstruction obligations within seconds.
IHS Markit to Add About 1 Million Analyst Reports to its Data Lake
IHS Markit uses Google’s transformer-based model BERT and a combination of classification and extraction techniques to determine what the documents mean and summarize them.
TipRanks Builds Financial News Service to Highlight Analyst Ratings Data
The vendor provides ratings of research analysts, bloggers, and other stock tipsters.
Waters Wrap: What’s This ‘ESG’ You Speak Of? (And Thoughts on Cybersec & Cloud Delivery)
As ESG becomes more popular, Tony believes that a great decoupling needs to happen.
Future of Operations Hinges on Tech Approach, Industry Collaboration
ISITC's Lisa Iagatta explains why the industry will need to come together to tackle new challenges facing the world of operations.
This Week: CAT, SS&C, Nasdaq, SmartStream, OpenFin, OpenDoor & More
A summary of some of the past week’s financial technology news.
UnaVista Rolls Out Reporting Analytics for Performance and Market Surveillance
The regulatory business is developing enhanced analytics to improve reporting accuracy and identify signs of market manipulation.
LEI Foundation Pilots Blockchain-Based Credentials Solution
GLEIF has partnered with vendor Evernym to create digital wallets that link employees’ identities and roles with companies' identifying codes.
Fuzzy Data Stalls ESG Alpha Hunt
Quants searching for ESG signals have reached very different conclusions. Mostly they blame the data.
Hedge Funds Use Shopping Center Cameras in Hunt for Alpha
Buy-side firms in search of alternative insights to drive returns are turning to sentiment analysis to fine-tune their strategies.
LEI on the Edge: What Needs to Happen for Wider Adoption?
The financial industry is losing faith in the LEI initiative as regulatory mandates remain patchy, but some see hope in SFTR’s unique-issuer LEI. By Mariella Reason
TRG Screen Buys Partner MDI to Boost Managed Data Services
The deal will allow MDI to provide other TRG offerings as fully managed services, and to benefit from being part of a larger company.
TREP’s Tipping Point? An Examination of Refinitiv’s Market Data Platform
Refinitiv—and by extension, TREP—has experienced a fair amount of disruption over the last two years. Competitors are lining up to cut into the platform's market share.
ICE Looks to Bolster ESG Service as Investors Grapple with Lack of Standards
ICE Data Services says investors can access its reference data subscription later this year to build out their ESG strategies.
IMD/IRD Awards 2018: Winners' Review - A Level Playing Field
It used to be the case that many of the Inside Market Data and Inside Reference Data Awards would be taken home by a small number of the largest data providers. This year, it was a much closer race, with a greater variety of winners and only three…
EDM Council Forms Data Women’s Group
The new interest group will help provide collaboration, networking, and mentoring opportunities for women seeking to advance their careers in the data industry.
LSEG Building New Algo-Testing Tool
The exchange group is developing new regtech products while looking to move these offerings to the cloud in 2020.
Due North: Inside TMX Group's Bold Data Audit Overhaul
Toronto's TMX Group is looking to revolutionize the way that it conducts data audits with users. While the early feedback is positive, will others follow suit?
Banks Team Up for “Ion Replacement” Project
Consortium weighs building fixed-income software in potential threat to Ion, the dominant vendor
SmartStream Goes to Market With Fresh Air
Sibos 2019 was a significant event for SmartStream Technologies, marking the official launch of SmartStream Air, the firm’s cloud-native, AI-enabled reconciliations platform that is set to shake up the reconciliations industry. Victor Anderson caught up…