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Robo-brokers in the pipeline as AiX moves to upend IDBs with AI
Interdealer brokers are facing potential disruption after a new platform, AiX, announced its intention this week to compete for their fees with artificial intelligence technology that aims to replace some of the functions of human brokers.
06 Feb 2020 -
AI firm makes push into OTC interdealer markets
Robots are going up against humans in the OTC broking markets as AiX announced the launch of its natural language artificial intelligence broker platform this week.
05 Feb 2020 -
People moves in brief
Ex-Goldman's Weber joins Middle East boutique — Giancarlo turns up at Federal Housing Finance Agency — Ferdane takes over coverage job at BNP Paribas
16 Jan 2020 -
Morgan Stanley and compatriots raise the FICC bar
Morgan Stanley more than doubled its revenue from fixed income sales and trading in the fourth quarter of last year, completing a stellar set of earnings for US banks in that business after a year in which they appear to have cemented their dominance in Europe.
16 Jan 2020 -
CrossLend to play into Capital Markets Union drive
CrossLend’s securitization platform is designed to allow smaller firms to buy and sell debt portfolios more easily. It has been backed by Santander’s venture capital fund, which sees it as tapping into various trends in European capital markets.
13 Jan 2020 -
Ipreo has reached out to bond platform rivals as fintech competition heats up
Ipreo, whose system is used by banks, especially in Europe, for syndicating new bond issues, has reached out to two potential rivals about possibilities to collaborate. This suggests IHS Markit, which owns Ipreo, believes the alternative platforms could make headway.
18 Dec 2019 -
IMF: news tone beats VIX as equity guide
The way that financial and economic news is reported is a better guide to variance in global equity returns than VIX, the CBOE Volatility Index, according to research by the International Monetary Fund.
18 Dec 2019 -
Crunch time for DCM tech: let the best one win
This year GlobalCapital has reported extensively on the various debt capital markets technology platforms being developed by both the public and private sectors. But which will come out on top? We should get an answer in 2020.
18 Dec 2019 -
Northern Trust and AcadiaSoft prep collateral product
Northern Trust and AcadiaSoft are collaborating on a collateral management service for over-the-counter derivatives trading.
18 Dec 2019 -
Capital markets tech reaches tipping point
As it spawns innovations everywhere from new issues to collateral management, is blockchain the technological key to digitising capital markets? And if it is, will that be through public versions such as Ethereum or private confidential networks? Or is this focus on distributed ledgers missing the point and the real need just to automate antiquated manual and bilateral processes? Julian Lewis reports
13 Dec 2019
