Strategy
State Street focuses on 6 data vendors for ESG analysis
State Street’s Chris Berry explains how the asset servicer winnowed 60 ESG data providers down to six, and why this strategy has proved to be effective.
Pictet Asset Management enlists Finsemble to overhaul fixed-income, FX workflows
The Swiss bank’s asset management division has been working with Cosaic for a bit over a year, and has used Finsemble to automate heavy workflows in FX pricing, money market yields, and credit.
LME overhauls tech, data stack amid calls for trading floor closure
The London-based commodities exchange has embarked on an ambitious technology and data infrastructure modernization strategy as it takes steps to close its open-outcry floor.
Wavelength Podcast Ep. 217: Citi Ventures’ Victor Alexiev on Problem Solving
Victor explains how Citi Ventures—Citibank’s corporate venture arm—and the D10X program approaches challenges.
People Moves: Exegy, Aquis Exchange, Xenomorph, and more
A look at some of the key "people moves" from this week, including Craig Meyer (pictured) who has been appointed VP of marketing at Exegy.
Deutsche Bank First Looks to Interop, Chatbot Projects After Partnering with Google
The bank will look to enhance existing capabilities and potentially introduce new solutions with Google’s help.
Manulife Refines ESG Methodology and Plugs Data Gaps with NLP
The asset manager has adopted materiality tools, industry handbooks, and NLP techniques to help navigate ESG data limitations.
Digital Rights Project for Data Usage Faces Legal, Operational Hurdles
Keen to trim the resources they expend on interpreting licenses, investment firms are exploring how they can turn data agreements into machine-readable code. Doing so is fraught with challenges.
This Week: IHS Markit, SGX/HSBC, LedgerX, TNS, TraditionData and more
A summary of some of the past week's financial technology news.
HKEx's Data Play Slowly Comes Together
The exchange is currently working on building its enterprise data bus for better internal data management, but Wei-Shen finds that the exchange is still short on long-term answers.
IPC Looks to Partner with Additional Transcription Service Providers
The comms and networking provider is expanding its service after partnering with OpenFin.
Bloomberg Adds New NLP Capabilities to TOMS
The tool allows traders to search their own data to find trade information specific to them.
After Acquisitions, Broadridge Looks to Expand Continental Europe Fund Comms Business
The financial services firm aims to branch out beyond the UK and Ireland with its fund communication solutions business.
Causality Link Building Next-Gen ESG Dashboard
The research provider will release a dashboard that decouples and drills down into the E, S, and G factors of ESG.
Lazard Asset Management Implements ESG Mapping Tool
The investment manager has developed frameworks to better understand how ESG issues impact individual company performance and sectors.
Boosted.ai Rolls Out New Models for Navigating Covid-Specific Risks
As Covid-19 impacted companies and markets in March, the machine-learning startup sought to help clients better manage risk exposures that couldn't be explained by traditional risk factors.
This Week: VMWare, Samsung and Salesforce; Wolters Kluwer; Verint, Cloud9; TP Icap; and more
A summary of some of the past week's financial technology news.
Wavelength Podcast Ep. 204: Nasdaq on Cloud Strategy
Nikolai Larbalestier, head of cloud strategy at Nasdaq, joins the podcast to talk about cloud computing and cloud adoption.
Finos Targets Retail Banking
The open-source nonprofit is looking to leverage its capital markets membership to expand its footprint.
Meet Cosaic, the New Name for ChartIQ and Finsemble
The move is intended to bridge clients' perception gap between its ChartIQ charting and Finsemble smart desktop integration businesses.
Lazard Asset Management Revamps Data Model to Reflect Covid-19 Reality
The firm developed a short-term data strategy to avoid the use of unreliable data and better understand the effects of the pandemic on the market as it evolves.
Data Integration, Interop Drive State Street’s Alpha Platform Strategy
The bank and Charles River are planning the next phase of enhancements to the Alpha trading platform.
Big xyt Readies New Liquidity & Trade Analytics Tools
The vendor is beta testing three new data and analytics tools that will give greater insight into their best options to liquidate positions quickly during volatile market conditions.
People Moves: CFTC; Eventus Systems, Rozetta, RJ O'Brien, Outset Global
Some of the key people moves from this week, including CFTC Chairman Heath Tarbert (pictured), who joins the Iosco board.