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Data Monetisation: An Approach to Unlocking Data Opportunities
By: Sapient Consulting Data has become one of an organisation’s most valuable assets, although many struggle to turn it into a profitable asset. In addition to lacking specialist knowledge, as well as the right tools and experience, companies often face challenges with the availability and usability of their data, overcomplicated legacy technologies, and a shortage…
Colt Cuts Latency on Tokyo to London Link
Colt has reduced latency between Tokyo and London financial centres to less than 159 milliseconds. The network optimisation is part of the company’s ongoing investment in the Colt IQ Network and is designed to support trading strategies that rely on low latency infrastructure. Andrew Housden, vice president of capital markets at Colt, says: “We are…
Mizuho Securities Integrates Nomura Research AI to Monitor Communication
Mizuho Securities has implemented Nomura Research Institute’s (NRI) voice recognition and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to optimise the monitoring and analysis of communication between investors and sales reps that is tracked for both compliance and customer care purposes. The voice recognition and AI systems are based on NRI’s TRAINA VOICE Digest and have been customised…
Quant Insight Adds Analytics Dashboard to Trading Tools Portfolio
Quant Insight, a London based macro research firm providing discretionary managers with actionable investment ideas, has introduced the QI Analytics Dashboard that allows users to analyse and visualise patterns between asset prices and the macro forces driving them. The dashboard also provides tools to identify the best trading expression across all asset classes. Mahmood Noorani,…
ESMA Publishes Missing Pieces of Reference Data Crucial to MiFID II
To the relief of market participants subject to Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II), the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published the last missing pieces of reference data crucial to trading under the regulation – MiFID II and Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation (MiFIR) transitional transparency calculations (TTC) for equity and…
Kingland Extends AI Capability in Fourth-Generation Enterprise Software Platform
Kingland Systems continues to innovate with the fourth generation of its enterprise software platform. The platform provides artificial intelligence (AI) focused on data management, extended enterprise data management capabilities, new analytics, and cloud optimised DevOps software to support high performance software strategies. It also accelerates specific solution delivery by avoiding extensive customisation, providing 60% to…
UBS Leads Initiative to Reconcile LEI Data Using Ethereum Smart Contracts
A group of six banks and data vendors is working with Ethereum smart contracts to improve the quality of counterparty reference data through anonymous reconciliation. The blockchain initiative was borne out of the need to improve data quality for Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) and Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation (MiFIR), and…
Connectivity in Financial Markets: Are We Over the Need for Speed?
By: Michael Cooper, Chief Technology Officer, Radianz, Global Banking and Financial Markets, BT Around the world, automated systems trade equities, futures, currencies and contracts in fractions of seconds. Admired and feared in equal measure, this high frequency trading (HFT) is firmly embedded in financial markets. Although its share has been declining since the financial crisis…
Congratulations to the Winners of the 2017 A-Team Group DMR Awards
A-Team Group announced the winners of its Data Management Review (DMR) Awards at a well-attended ceremony at Merchant Taylors’ Hall today. The awards are designed to recognise leading players providing data management solutions and services to capital markets participants. See complete list of awards and winners below. The DMR awards are now in their fifth…
Eze Software Partners with MSCI to Roll Out Real-Time Factor Analysis
Investment management software provider Eze Software has teamed up with factor analytics specialist MSCI to enable investors to measure their exposure to risk in real time and adjust exposure as they trade throughout the day. Eze is integrating MSCI’s factor exposure data into its order management system (OMS), with MSCI providing coefficients of the Barra…