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FIA EPTA Stresses Need to Take Urgent Action to Improve EU Capital Markets Competitiveness
The Futures Industry Association European Principal Traders Association (FIA EPTA), representing Europe’s leading Principal Trading Firms, has emphasised the urgent need for the EU to strengthen capital markets liquidity, to be more competitive and achieve its strategic objectives for a safer, greener, and more prosperous future. The association outlines its policy recommendations for 2024-29 under…
Axoni Updates and Rebrands Replication Software Enhancing Flexibility
Capital markets technology provider Axoni has retooled and rebranded its data replication software to give clients greater flexibility in distributing their data to end users and lowering the cost of keeping databases updated. The US-based company’s former AxCore product has been renamed HYDRA. The name is derived from the multi-headed creature of Greek mythology, which grows two new…
Augmented Data Quality Webinar: Improving Data With AI
Financial institutions are testing the capabilities of artificial intelligence (AI) and its application to their operational workflows. For many of their use cases, AI is a yet-to-be-proven technology for both their third-party and in-house applications. In its application to data management, however, the stakes are higher: the success of AI in automating processes related to…
Using AI to Bridge the Data Management Skills Gap
There’s little disagreement over the vital role played by data management in getting the most value of artificial intelligence (AI) applications. Without good data, there will be no good outcomes; or, as the popular saying goes: if you put garbage in, you’ll get garbage out. It’s a principle to which Peter Ku, vice-president and chief…
Why Artificial Intelligence isn’t Always a Clever Solution
James Maxfield, Chief Product Officer at Duco. It’s an exciting time for technology. There are some seriously powerful AI tools on the market, solving real issues that capital markets firms have been battling with for years, if not decades. Undoubtedly, this is just the start. Yet at the same time there’s a noticeable trend to…
Unstructured Data Webinar: Taming the New Frontier of Data Management
How can institutions get an edge from their data when much of the information they use has become commoditised? That’s one of the questions driving efforts to extract the most meaning and value from unstructured sources of data, pools of information that have until recently been largely out of reach for all but the biggest…
The Nuts and Bolts of a Modern Data Management System According to Arcesium
The past 12 months have been busy ones for data management and technology provider Arcesium. Winning the award for Most Innovative North American Data Management Provider in A-Team Group’s Data Management Insight Awards USA 2023 and opening a new office in Portugal were among the highlights of a year that also saw the New York-headquartered company expand…
TurinTech Deploys GenAI to Accelerate Financial Software
The costs associated with poor quality software coding are startling. In dollar terms alone, companies in the US incurred a US$2.4 trillion hit from the direct impacts and cost of correcting poor coding, according to a 2022 survey by the Consortium for Information and Software Quality (CISQ). That’s before indirect costs such as reputational and…
Rich Talent Pool Lures Arcesium to Portugal
Portugal’s combination of high-quality expertise in technology and finance was the key driver behind Arcesium’s decision to locate its first continental European office in Lisbon, the data management provider has revealed. The Atlantic coastal city of 3 million people came out as the top pick from a list of 50 European cities considered by the…
Asset Managers Can Learn Lessons from New Government’s Cost Pressures
By Thomas McHugh, CEO and Co-founder of FINBOURNE Technology. Any new government brings the inevitable “change” message, but one thing never changes regardless of who has the keys to the treasury – seeking out departmental cost savings wherever humanly possible. With unprotected departments facing cuts of up to 2.9% according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies,…