Financial Technologies International has hired Fritz McCormick as a competitive research analyst, dealing with marketing and strategic policy. Formerly an analyst at Boston-based Celent Communications he will be working out of FTI’s Boston and New York offices.
Intelligent machine readable news is a powerful tool in the arsenals of trading and investment firms seeking competitive advantage. It turns unstructured data into actionable insight and can be used, for example, to uncover market trends, identify correlations and evaluate sentiment. In turn, it can inform quant strategies and predictive models. While machine readable news...
In order to ensure that downstream departments remain in synch with central data management projects, firms must adopt an incremental and practical approach to data integration, agreed FIMA’s panel on the practicalities of managing a golden copy repository. Peter Giordano, executive director of institutional equities at Oppenheimer & Co, recommended that firms roll out the...
Buy AND Build: The Future of Capital Markets Technology London examines the latest changes and innovations in trading technology and explores how technology is being deployed to create an edge in sell side and buy side capital markets financial institutions.
The Global LEI System – or GLEIS – has been in development since the middle of last year. Development has been patchy at times, but much has been done, leaving fewer outstanding issues, but also raising new questions. What’s emerging is a structure for the GLEIS going forward, complete with a mechanism for registering and...
