Metzler AM Taps Visible Alpha for Mifid II Research Compliance
Frankfurt-based Metzler Asset Management has rolled out New York-based research platform vendor Visible Alpha’s ONEaccess Platform to identify, monitor and value investment research for compliance with...
View ArticleRaymond James Enlists Red Deer for Mifid II Research
Raymond James, a provider of investment banking, asset management and financial planning services, has chosen financial technology and data discovery provider Red Deer Systems to manage its Mifid II...
View ArticleVanguard Pilots Blockchain for Index Data Management
Last month, US asset manager Vanguard revealed it had partnered on a blockchain project with the Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP) and blockchain technology vendor Symbiont to create a...
View ArticleBMO InvestorLine Adds OTC Markets Data for Canadian Investors
Canadian Broker BMO InvestorLine has begun distributing real-time market data from New York-based over-the-counter stock market OTC Markets Group to its clients, to help them find new trading...
View ArticleData Head Jones Departs BarCap
Amanda Jones, global head of market data at Barclays Capital, has left the bank after almost 12 years.
View ArticleBalyasny AM Hoists Antenna for Evaluating Alternative Datasets
Chicago-based Balyasny Asset Management has rolled out a service for analyzing third-party alternative datasets faster than traditional evaluations, to determine whether they can deliver better returns...
View ArticleBNY Mellon Taps Barr for CDO
Former HSBC and Bridgewater Associates data executive Gary Barr joined BNY Mellon in January as chief data officer.
View ArticleGuardian Taps NeoXam for Data Management
New York-based Guardian Life Company of America is to deploy French financial technology vendor NeoXam’s DataHub data management platform to support its investment reporting functions, investment book...
View ArticleSocGen Taps Big XYT for Liquidity Analytics
Société Générale Corporate and Investment Bank has signed up to use Frankfurt-based data-as-a-service provider Big XYT’s Liquidity Cockpit service, which will provide additional analytics and insight...
View ArticleGoldman Builds Team to Sell In-House Alt Data
Goldman Sachs is in the early stages of building a team of quantitative researchers within its securities division, to identify internal sources of “alternative data” that might be valuable to clients...
View ArticleGermany’s RSU Taps GoldenSource for Shared Landesbank Data Service
Enterprise data management platform vendor GoldenSource has begun rolling out its Market Data Solution at RSU Rating Service Unit, a credit rating agency and provider of IT services to German...
View ArticleMorgan Stanley Moves Beaton to Head US Trade and Transaction Reporting
Morgan Stanley has promoted Joshua Beaton—previously program manager for the bank’s work towards the SEC-mandated Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT) and head of US regulatory reporting—to the role of head...
View ArticleOrient Express: Accelerating the Rise of the CDO in Asia
Chief data officers have become well established at a global level within many large international financial firms, driven in part by the regulatory onslaught that followed the 2008 financial crisis....
View ArticleTOFIS Panel: Data Linkages Pose Key Challenges to Alt Data Use
Alternative data is delivering benefits to financial firms in the form of new types of analytics, but also brings its own set of challenges, according to panelists who spoke at this year’s Toronto...
View ArticleTOFIS Keynote: National Bank of Canada Uses AI to ‘Brew’ a Richer Blend of...
Artificial intelligence offers banks the opportunity to create more value from data and rewrite the way they interact with and deliver that value to clients, said Alexis Gouslisty, head of data...
View ArticleJP Morgan Data Scientist Eyes Insights from Internal Data
The use of new data types is all the rage among investment firms. But JP Morgan Asset Management is not solely relying on offerings such as aerial photos of shopping mall parking lots for a steer on...
View ArticleFool’s Gold: Data Mining Digs Up Explosive Errors
Empirical science is reeling. In the past five years, in fields from biomedicine to social psychology, top academic journals have upended canonical studies by showing their results cannot be reproduced.
View ArticleOpen Platform: How Financial Firms Can Minimize GDPR Risk
GDPR is now in force, and financial firms that are not yet compliant face hefty fines. Greg Sparrow, SVP and general manager at compliance, security and privacy services and software vendor...
View ArticleState Street Exec: Data Quality Poses Challenges for ESG-Conscious Investors
State Street Global Exchange’s head of research says investors still struggle to measure ESG impact on their portfolios, despite growing demand for ESG insights.
View ArticleTwo Sigma Offloads Data ‘Wrangling’ to Crux
By offloading its data processing to Crux, Two Sigma will be able to accelerate data acquisition efforts.
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