Agency execution specialist Liquidnet has released in the U.S. a new algorithm for its equities platform. Dubbed SmartDark, the algorithm is intended to help institutional traders prioritize “routing to venues with larger execution sizes and better price stability,” officials say. “SmartDark incorporates a variety of yield and quality metrics to give traders an optimal blend… Read More >>
AI Applied to Unstructured Data Holds ‘Tremendous Potential’
(Editor’s note: The Boston-based indico Data Solutions offers machine learning algorithms for text and image analysis, which are then presented as web services. The goal is to automate “meaningful insight” from unstructured data that can be applied to sentiment analysis, social media monitoring, content filtering, content classification, recommendation, and personalization. FTF News spoke to Vishal… Read More >>