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Databricks Extends Capabilities of Lakehouse Data and AI Platform
Databricks, provider of the Lakehouse data and AI platform, has extended the platform’s capabilities with the addition of advanced data warehousing and governance, data sharing innovations including an analytics marketplace and data clean rooms for data collaboration, automatic cost optimisation for ETL operations, and machine learning (ML) lifecycle improvements. The company, founded by the creators…
ING Makes Strategic Investment in OpenFin
ING Ventures, the venture capital arm of ING, has made a $10m strategic investment in OpenFin, the operating system of enterprise productivity, becoming the 7th major financial institution to not only buy OpenFin but also become a strategic partner. ING adopted OpenFin’s technology in 2021 to accelerate the bank’s desktop transformation strategy. Employees now have…
Russia Sanctions Pose Challenges for Regulated Entities
By Martin Cheek, Managing Director, SmartSearch As fears of renewed Russian offensives put Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine back on the news agenda, the sanctions against Putin and Russia which followed the war have never gone away. Before the invasion, Russia was already subject to about 2,700 sanctions. Within two weeks of the attack, that…
GoldenSource Releases Cloud Data Services Designed to Improve Data Management in Data Lakes and Warehouses
GoldenSource has made its first move since being acquired in May 2022 by Gemspring Capital with the release of cloud data services designed to help financial institutions improve data management in data lakes and warehouses. The company notes increasing use of cloud data platforms and warehouses, and the ease of data access, but also the…
Natural Language Processing, the Shift from Surveilling Traders to Supporting Them
By Oliver Rooney, VoxSmart. Natural Language Processing (NLP), although not a new concept, is increasingly being discussed within Financial Markets. Despite its tenure in everyday services such as chat boxes, Alexa and Hey Google amongst others, the way in which it is being utilised in financial markets is changing for the better with firms set…
Optimising High Performance Infrastructure for Growing Market Data Volumes
As market data volumes continue to grow, firms across the industry – both market participants and their service providers – are having to think strategically about what kind of infrastructure they need in order to accommodate this growth, particularly under peak loads, whilst optimising for high performance. Given the rising volume, what kind of decisions…
How Accelerator Frameworks and Low Code/No Code Can Be Used to Enhance Post-Trade Operations
By Kenan Maciel, Director of Strategy, Lab49. The Covid-19 pandemic instigated significant shocks to firms across capital markets. As a result, the need for technology platforms enabling efficient trading experiences skyrocketed. What’s more, the volatile start to this year has simply reaffirmed this notion for organizations operating in the sector. As traders seek how best…
How Can Firms Prepare for the CFTC Rewrite?
By Leo Labeis, CEO, REGnosys. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) rewrite of swaps reporting rules – known as the ‘CFTC Rewrite’ – is one of several upcoming changes to global trade reporting regimes. Earlier this year, it extended the deadline for financial institutions to comply from May 25, 2022, to December 5, 2022. The…
ION Launches Fixed Income Execution Management System
ION, the trading, analytics, treasury, and risk management solutions vendor, has launched FI EMS, a new fixed income execution management system for both buy and sell-side fixed income traders. The new product, which expands ION’s market-making solution, is designed to ease challenges around selecting counterparties and sourcing liquidity in fixed income, by digitalising the entire…
Webinar Preview: ESG Data Needs Proper Governance to Avoid Greenwashing
Organisations must resist the temptation to take a relaxed view of their ESG data in the absence of written governance rules, a data management expert has warned. As investors and regulators put more pressure on financial institutions and companies to get their ESG processes in order, the risk of reputational and financial damage has risen…