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Informatica Accelerates Data Integration and Replication in Snowflake Ecosystem
Informatica has added three product capabilities to bring greater simplicity, speed, and performance to data integration and replication for customers in the Snowflake ecosystem. The products include Informatica Superpipe for Snowflake that delivers up to 3.5x faster ingestion and replication into Snowflake. Superpipe uses capabilities of Snowflake’s Snowpipe streaming and Informatica’s cloud data integration platform...
Bloomberg, MarketAxess, and Tradeweb Abandon Joint Fixed Income Consolidated Tape Venture
In a statement released on Friday, Bloomberg, MarketAxess, and Tradeweb jointly announced their decision to halt their plans around the establishment of a fixed income consolidate tape (CTP) in the EU and UK. Earlier this year, in a strategic move designed to improve the fixed income ecosystem, the three companies signed a joint venture agreement...
big xyt Partners with Baillie Gifford to Launch Portfolio Liquidity Analysis Solution for Dilution Levy Calculation
big xyt, the independent data and analytics solutions provider, has launched a new tool to automate the process of dilution. The Portfolio Liquidity Analysis solution, developed in collaboration with Baillie Gifford, is designed to enhance buy-side firms’ understanding of equity portfolio liquidity and to address the forthcoming industry guidance on the application of dilution levies....
Re-imagining the User Experience: LSEG’s Workspace Strategy
Earlier this year, the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) announced that it was on track to transition all Refinitiv Eikon clients to Workspace, LSEG’s next generation workflow platform, by the end of 2024, and that it intended to shut down Eikon in 2025. Over 50% of clients have now been migrated to the new platform,...
The Impact of The Move to T+1: What to Look Out for
By Sandeep Sabnani, Head of Equities Product Strategy and Growth at ION Markets. The shift to T+1 settlement over the past few years has occupied the minds of front office and trading desks across equity markets globally. Earlier this year, India became the first major economy to fully introduce T+1, following a phased approach, while...
Basel Committee to Seek More Data Under Climate-Risk Disclosure Proposal
Banks may be expected to disclose detailed data on their exposure to climate risks under new proposals by the banking standards-setter, despite its expressed concern over the suitability of current datasets. The Bank of International Settlements’ Basel Committee has published its outline approach to protecting lenders and investors from the channelling of funds to potentially...
2023 in Review: The Rise of the Machines
Artificial intelligence (AI) seemed to take on a life of its own in 2023. ChatGPT, the large language model-based (LLM) generative AI (GenAI), grabbed headlines with horror stories of hallucinations and doomy sci-fi predictions of lost jobs and machines running wild over humanity. Most ignored the fact that AI in its various forms had been...
CUSIP Global Services Partners BeZero to Create Unique Identifiers for Carbon Credits
CUSIP Global Services, a provider of securities identification across capital markets, has partnered ratings agency BeZero Carbon to create identifiers for carbon credits. Unique CUSIP identifiers will be assigned to carbon credit projects listed on the major registries across the voluntary carbon market (VCM). This will make carbon credit trading more efficient as the market...
Moody’s Gen AI Research Assistant Offers New Insights from Research, Data and Analytics
Moody’s has released Moody’s Research Assistant, a search and analytical tool powered by generative AI and using the company’s proprietary content and the latest large language models (LLMs) to help customers generate new insights from its credit research, data, and analytics. The research assistant synthesises vast amounts of information allowing users to assess lending or...
As Good as it Looks: Why UI/UX Design Has Become a Crucial Ingredient in Retail Platforms’ Success
By Matt Barrett, CEO of Adaptive. We are told not to judge a book by its cover. Yet we are naturally drawn to content and platforms that, on the surface, stand out from the crowd. When quality design is the norm, as is increasingly the case in our digital world, customers’ expectations of exceptional user experience...