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Evalueserve tames GenAI to boost client’s cyber underwriting

3 days ago | waterstechnology.com | Luke Clancy

Tweet Facebook LinkedIn Save this article Send to Print this page High-profile hacks are a clear and present danger, undermining business confidence as well as operability. For the financial industry, cyber risk is consistently the number one threat among operational risks. Against a backdrop of concerning levels of security breaches, new US disclosure rules could create more demand for cyber insurance.
Bloomberg, the SIPs, Broadridge, EDI, and more

1 week ago | waterstechnology.com | Max Bowie

I like to keep these introductions brief, so here goes…Announced this weekBloomberg expands IBVAL to emerging market bondsBloomberg has added coverage of emerging markets bonds to its Intraday BVAL (IBVAL) AI-powered pricing service, and is extending the pricing coverage to 22 hours a day, five days a week for the most actively traded bonds. The service now provides “near real-time” pricing for more than 95% of US dollar-denominated corporate and sovereign emerging market bonds, as well as those
Waters Wavelength Ep. 316: Finbourne Technology’s Toby Glaysher

1 week ago | waterstechnology.com | Rebecca Natale

Tweet Facebook LinkedIn Save this article Send to Print this page Follow Wei-Shen Wong, Asia editor, and Anthony Malakian, editor-in-chief of WatersTechnology, record a weekly podcast touching on the biggest stories in financial technology. To hear the full interview, listen in the player above, or you can click on the download button in the player above. You can also listen to us on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
State Street’s interop play for FX and the buy/build debate

1 week ago | waterstechnology.com | Anthony Malakian

Tweet Facebook LinkedIn Save this article Send to Print this page Having a stable of high-end trading platforms can be a blessing—and a curse. And while experience and familiarity are valuable, legacy systems eventually start to creak and crawl. Around 2019, State Street realized it had a problem as it looked to build upon and expand its suite of foreign exchange and cash solutions.
As costs rise, buy-side CIOs urge caution on AI

1 week ago | waterstechnology.com | Eliot Raman Jones

Tweet Facebook LinkedIn Save this article Send to Print this page On Wednesday morning at the Convene Sancroft, a venue flanked by St. Paul’s Cathedral and the London Stock Exchange, technology experts coolly calculated the costs of moving with the times.
XiNG: Inside Citi’s all-encompassing risk platform

1 week ago | waterstechnology.com | Max Bowie

Tweet Facebook LinkedIn Save this article Send to Print this page Voice of the CTOLast year, WatersTechnology spoke with eight senior technologists from eight different tier-one banks. Those interviews were conducted on background to get an honest understanding of the challenges they were facing. Nearly all of those challenges still exist today—you can find those articles here.
Demand for private markets data turns users into providers

1 week ago | waterstechnology.com | Eliot Raman Jones

Tweet Facebook LinkedIn Save this article Send to Print this page BlackRock’s acquisition of private markets data provider Preqin last year attracted significant attention not because of the deal itself—a large institution buying a boutique data provider is hardly novel—but for its price. At $3.2 billion, the deal was 13 times the vendor’s forecasted 2024 revenue, $240 million, but the premium was handwaved away by BlackRock CEO Larry Fink as a small price to pay.
LSEG-AWS extend partnership, Deutsche Bank’s AI plans, GenAI (and regular AI) concerns, and more

2 weeks ago | waterstechnology.com | Anthony Malakian

Everything below this intro has to do with capital markets technology and data—but if you’ll allow me, I wanna talk about the ponies. Tomorrow is the 151st running of the Kentucky Derby, America’s preeminent annual horse race. (I’ve always found England’s Grand National to be a bit barbaric, you know, because of all the death.)For me, I’ll always find inspiration in horse racing. These animals are majestic. While not human, they understand that they WANT to win. They know it’s a race. They have
From server farms to actual farms, ‘reuse and recycle’ is a winning strategy

2 weeks ago | waterstechnology.com | Max Bowie

Tweet Facebook LinkedIn Save this article Send to Print this page As a parent of two 10-year-olds, my “days off” are generally busier than my workdays. For example, I joined my daughters last weekend at an Earth Day celebration organized by one of their friends, where kids picked up litter, planted seeds, and held a march for nature and the environment. Mother Nature thanked the kids by delivering a frigid and windy afternoon, following a monsoon the previous evening.
Deutsche Bank delivers AI, client insights with ‘muscle memory’

2 weeks ago | waterstechnology.com | Wei-Shen Wong

Tweet Facebook LinkedIn Save this article Send to Print this page Voice of the CTOLast year, WatersTechnology spoke with eight senior technologists from eight different tier-one banks. Those interviews were conducted on background to get an honest understanding of the challenges they were facing. Nearly all of those challenges still exist today—you can find those articles here.