Standard & Poor’s has appointed Elisabeth Nygren associate director of marketing, Europe. Elisabeth joins S&P from The Mergermarket Group, the mergers and acquisitions news and intelligence service, where she was global head of communications.
Interest in Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) investment has exploded in recent years, bringing with it regulation and a requirement for buy-side firms to develop ESG strategies and meet disclosure obligations. The sell-side can help here by integrating ESG data with traditional financial information, although the compliance burden remains with asset managers. The EU Sustainable...
Following on from an announcement at the end of last year, a consortium of IT vendors has published a white paper outlining a reference stack for high performance trading applications, and has documented a set of benchmarks conducted on commercial and open source FIX engines to demonstrate different performance characteristics of the stack. As it...
Now in its 3rd year, the AI in Capital Markets Summit returns with a focus on the practicalities of onboarding AI enterprise wide for business value creation. Whilst AI offers huge potential to revolutionise capital markets operations many are struggling to move beyond pilot phase to generate substantial value from AI.
At the same time, the growth of high frequency and event-driven trading techniques is spurring demand for direct feed services sourced from exchanges and other trading venues, including alternative trading systems and multilateral trading facilities. Handling these high-speed data feeds its presenting market data managers and their infrastructure teams with a challenge: how to manage...