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The Race is on – Corvil’s Next-Generation Trade Execution Analytics Offer Competitive Advantage
Trade execution analytics are taking a leap forward with the application of machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) to machine-time data. Ultimate results could include the ability to understand, evidentially, the relationship between trading systems performance and trade outcomes. Corvil has been working for about two years to develop machine learning algos that can identify…
Fenergo Offers Client Onboarding Efficiencies with API-based Digital Client Orchestration
Fenergo continues to innovate with Digital Client Orchestration, a suite of customer lifecycle management (CLM) tools the company claims can enable efficiencies of up to 82% in client onboarding. The solution uses APIs to allow Fenergo functionality to be plugged into any front, middle or back office system including customer relationship management applications, such as…
ChartIQ to Expand Finsemble Sales on Back of Citi Investment
ChartIQ, a Virginia-based player in the so-called ‘smart desktop’ segment, has received a strategic investment from client Citi, with specific focus on its Finsemble desktop interoperability offering. The company says it will use the Citi cash – which comes hot on the heels of a $17 million series B funding – to expand its sales…
GLEIF Partners XBRL to Offer Benefits of Embedding LEIs in Machine-Readable Financial Documents
The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) continues to add use cases of the LEI beyond regulatory compliance, this time through a partnership with XBRL International that allows LEIs to be embedded in digital, machine-readable financial documents. Demonstrating the partnership, the GLEIF has published its 2018 annual report in human and machine-readable Inline XBRL and…
Bloomberg Puts Stead in App Portal as Desktop Wars Heat Up
As the war for control over the trader desktop heats up, Bloomberg has been steadily diversifying the third-party applications available via its Bloomberg App Portal, an AppStore-like facility that allows users to access third-party data and applications through the Bloomberg Terminal. The Bloomberg App Portal isn’t new, it was launched with much fanfare (and some…
Banks will be Kicking Themselves if They Don’t Start CSDR Preparations Now
By Kerril Burke, CEO of Meritsoft (a Cognizant company). Football is by no means the only industry where the word ‘penalties’ puts fear and panic into those involved. As football players prepare for the difficulties that penalty shootouts throw up in the latter stages of the UEFA Champions League, the banking sector also finds itself…
Ex HSBC Data Officer William Cohee Joins Greenwich Analytica to Head Financial Services Practice
Greenwich Analytica, a privately-owned data consultancy, has appointed William Cohee as executive director of financial services. Cohee joins the firm after spending three years in the chief data office at HSBC. Prior to HSBC, he held senior leadership positions at UBS, BNP Paribas, Deutsche Bank, and JPMorgan Chase. Greenwich Analytica is a progressive analytics firm…
smartTrade Teams with NTT Data to Build Precious Metals Trading Platform for Asahi Pretec
French trading systems specialist smartTrade Technologies has teamed up with Japanese systems integrator NTT Data to deliver a next-generation precious metals trading platform for Asahi Pretec, a precious metals recycling company based in Tokyo. The Asahi Pretec contract builds on smartTrade’s recent success at Mizuho Japan, which selected the company’s LiquidityFX platform as the basis…
Don’t Believe the Hype
Wading through the hysteria to find an intelligent approach to AI By: Andrew Kouloumbrides, CEO of Xceptor. Having started its humble beginnings as a device to denote either a utopian dream or a dystopian nightmare in Sci-Fi novels, artificial intelligence (AI) is now well and truly finding practical applications and showing no signs of abating….
Thasos Adds QStreams Alternative Data Covering Visitation Metrics Across 480 Companies’ Locations
Thasos, an alternative data intelligence firm that transforms location data into actionable insights, has released a real-time foot traffic product, QStreams. The product has been developed specifically for quantitative hedge funds and is in beta testing. QStreams is a superset of Thasos products, providing subscribers with daily customer visitation and other fundamental metrics for every…