At FIA Expo 2019, Bikram Singh, the founder and CEO of EZOPS, talked with JLN about his company’s mission to apply machine learning in the post-trade process. Machine learning has been used in the front office for a while, but he says EZOPS uses it to maximize operational efficiencies to help the C-Suite minimize the time and resources spend dealing with reconciliation and managing data quality and correct “bad” data at its source.
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Fintech in 2019: The Year Cloud Computing Hype Gets Realized
We’ve been hearing the same buzzwords year after year - machine learning, big data, blockchain, cloud computing. In this video from STAC’s 93rd Annual Midwinter Meeting, USAM Group CEO Feargal O’Sullivan talks about why this is the year that...
Predictive Analytics: Finding the Right Patterns
Can we predict the future? Or at least have a better conception of potential outcomes? PreData is on the case. In this video, PreData CEO Hazem Dawani discusses how his firm approaches predictive analytics. (Hint: there's a lot of...
AI is changing this industry. Now what?
I spent last week listening to experts in artificial intelligence talk about what AI can and will bring to the markets and the broader world. What is patently clear is that AI is here now and is only going to expand. As Jay Biondo,...
TT’s Biondo Says AI Can Tackle Spoofing And More
It's been eight months since Trading Technologies purchased AI-driven regulatory software firm Neurensic. Since then the firm has integrated the software into the TT platform and rebranded the service as TT Score. Jay Biondo, product...
Italian market chaos; Vix-mageddon revisited
Observations & Insight The Spread - Week of 5/21 to 5/25 JohnLothianNews.com Reviews of "The Spread" are in! "You look better in blue." - Host's mom "I guess I like it - I just don't understand what you're talking about." - Old...
Revamping Nasdaq’s Tech Approach – Lars Ottersgård, Nasdaq
After Adena Friedman became Nasdaq’s CEO at the end of 2016, the exchange group’s management team evaluated where would be best to invest moving forward. One decision out of that process was to shift to becoming more of a fully...
CME Record International ADV; Martin Act Opposition; Nasdaq Completes Media/PR Sale
First Read Hits & Takes JLN Staff Congratulations to the World Federation of Exchanges on its IOMA Clearing & Derivatives Conference, concluded on Friday. The event, as usual, attracted exchange, clearing and market...
Riding the Regtech Wave with Voice Tech – Nader Shwayhat, GreenKey Technologies
There are a number of angles playing into the evolution of GreenKey Technologies’ voice recognition business over the past year. The consumer sector saw the continued rise of voice assistants - who doesn’t know Alexa? Advancements in...
Myths and Misconceptions Surrounding Artificial Intelligence
“We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.” -Alan Turing in 1950’s seminal “Computing Machinery and Intelligence” While it feels like only recently that company after company, in...
50 Cent Big Buyer of March VIX Calls; New Japanese Flex Options; Currency Volumes
Lead Stories '50 Cent' Is Buying Up Big on March VIX Calls Luke Kawa - Bloomberg Just as the rapper Curtis Jackson III captures attention for realizing he's made millions on Bitcoin, the buyer of volatility options that shares his moniker is a window shopper in VIX...
Trump to tap Powell for Fed; UK fintechs eating banks marketshare; Regulators warning about robots
First Read Hits & Takes By JLN Staff Congratulations to CME Group employees who supported October Pink for a Purpose campaign. Their efforts brought in more than $50,000. When you include CME's corporate donations, more than $175,000 will go to @BeBrightPink and...
How AI Is Reshaping ISVs: TT’s Rick Lane Looks at AI for Everything from Compliance to Finding Trading Opportunities
Trading Technologies announced yesterday the acquisition of Neurensic, an artificial intelligence regulation and compliance firm (terms were not disclosed). The deal brings Neurensic's AI technology into TT and provides a new...
Nasdaq Launches New Machine Learning Technology for Surveillance Efforts on Nordic Markets
First Read Hits & Takes By JLN Staff Nasdaq, a technology company spawned from the exchange space, has announced the first machine learning implementation in market surveillance. The system is part of their SMARTS, which is enjoying tremendous growth since Nasdaq...
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First Read $31,126/$300,000 (10.4%) Ajay Jain ++++ Hits & Takes John Lothian & JLN Staff Welcome to International Women's Day 2021. The theme for this year's International Women's Day is "Choose To Challenge." The WFE says there are over 100 women today...
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Wall Street’s ‘fear index’ surges to highest level in about 5 weeks as Treasury-yield spike sparks stock-market selloff; A new era of volatility begins, but equity inflows continue: BofA
Wall Street’s ‘fear index’ surges to highest level in about 5 weeks as Treasury-yield spike sparks stock-market selloff; A new era of volatility begins, but equity inflows continue: BofA
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