While there has been a lot of hype over disruptive technologies and trends, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) could have the biggest impacts upon securities operations, according to a survey of asset managers, conducted by vendor Eagle Investment Systems and the Hegarty Group, a market research firm. The report’s authors acknowledge that while… Read More >>
RJF Bolsters Mobile Proxy Voting via Broadridge’s API
Raymond James Financial (RJF) has jolted its mobile shareholder voting by via an enhanced application programming interface (API) and web services from Broadridge Financial Solutions — all to drive higher rates of shareholder voting. The firm is applying the API and web services support to advance the shareholder voting experience. RJF has been applying Broadridge’s… Read More >>
Merrill Lynch Unit Selects FactSet’s Market Data Wares
Merrill Lynch’s wealth management group will be changing market data providers after a two-year review of its data needs, which will mean a move away from the offerings of Thomson Reuters to the deployment of FactSet’s market data products. The agreement is an expansion of a previous relationship between Merrill Lynch and FactSet, a provider… Read More >>
Exchange Data International to Offer Key Content via QuantHouse
Exchange Data International (EDI) will be offering its securities reference data and end of day pricing through the QuantHouse hub of services accessed via application programming interfaces (APIs), which is intended to help a quant trader’s decision-making, among other operations. The London-based EDI has a content database that covers major markets, particularly emerging and frontier… Read More >>
Bloomberg Launches Website and API for Instrument Identifiers
Bloomberg is targeting exchanges, data providers and custodians with an online utility and mapping tools that help to identify, map and request instruments that conform to the vendor’s global, open standard for identifying financial instruments, the Financial Instrument Global Identifier (FIGI) Bloomberg recently launched OpenFIGI.com and the OpenFIGI API (application programming interface) to further the… Read More >>
Bitcoin Exchange Using FIX API
Coinsetter, a low latency bitcoin exchange and electronic communication network (ECN), is the first such company to launch an application programming interface (API) for the Financial Information eXchange (FIX) electronic trading communications protocol, according to a Coinsetter statement. Coinsetter’s FIX 4.4 API allows its customers to connect existing trading systems to a consolidated source of… Read More >>
