BondWave, a fixed income technology solutions provider, will be expanding its fixed income data and analytics platform, dubbed Effi, via the acquisition of the fixed income data analytics business unit of Bitvore, an artificial intelligence (A.I.) company offering insights from unstructured data, officials say. BondWave will not be acquiring the rest of Bitvore and will… Read More >>
Disruptive IT Takes Aim at Corporate Actions’ Problems
Corporate action processing, including problematic data issues, is interacting with disruptive technologies, and that might be good for the securities industry. A recently launched pilot shows how artificial intelligence (A.I.), blockchains, and other cutting-edge technologies may lead to a breakthrough. Chainlink, an Ethereum-based provider of decentralized “oracle” networks, is leading the pilot. Oracles are key… Read More >>
NICE Actimize Applies Generative A.I. to New Solutions
NICE Actimize, a provider of financial crime, risk, and compliance solutions, has embraced generative artificial intelligence (A.I.) for three new solutions that target financial crime in ways intended to help overwhelmed financial crime and fraud teams at financial services firms, officials say. Generative A.I. are algorithms “that can be used to create new content, including… Read More >>
CFTC Asks for Input on A.I. & Derivatives
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) wants input from derivatives industry participants about the ways artificial intelligence (A.I.) might impact them. The regulator’s Divisions of Market Oversight, Clearing and Risk, Market Participants, and Data and the Office of Technology Innovation sent out a request for comment (RFC) “to better inform them on the current and… Read More >>
Broadridge’s NYFIX Links to Linedata OMS & Other News
Broadridge Expands Partnership with Linedata The NYFIX Matching solution from Broadridge Financial Solutions will be integrated with the Longview order management system (OMS) from Linedata to provide more automation for NYFIX’s middle- and back-office functions, officials say. To make more automation possible, Broadridge expanded its partnership with Linedata, a provider of asset management and credit… Read More >>
Time to Rethink A.I.?
You don’t need artificial intelligence (A.I.) to predict what the economy is up to, or the perils of global climate change, or even what the local weather will be like next weekend. But that does appear to be where we are headed. Don’t just take it from FTF News. Ask Jamie Dimon, the chief executive… Read More >>
StanChart Uses A.I. for Onboarding Funds & Other News
Standard Chartered Joins the Saphyre Platform Standard Chartered’s capital markets division is using a platform that applies artificial intelligence (A.I.) to the onboarding process for new funds and for the maintenance of those funds, say officials at Saphyre, which is the name of the platform and the financial technology vendor that created it. The patent-approved… Read More >>
FIS Uses Machine Learning to Fight Financial Crime
FIS Partners With C3 AI for New Solutions Financial technology systems and software provide FIS has unveiled the first in a series of solutions that uses artificial intelligence (A.I.) to help capital markets firms fight the increasing threat of financial crime, officials say. FIS developed these new offerings with C3 AI, and the AML Compliance… Read More >>