by CDO Review Staff | Mar 25, 2019 | Asset Management and Trading
For two decades David Harding and the Winton Group tallied returns of at least 19% by employing algorithms that used a “trend-following” strategy. But those algorithms don’t work anymore and at age 57, Harding is trying to devise new algorithms that can turn in the...
by CDO Review Staff | Mar 18, 2019 | Asset Management and Trading
The first-ever API streaming service for the FX market will launch in the second quarter of 2019. This was announced last March 17 by EBS which operates the EBS Quant Analytics platform that serves as the FX market’s largest and most comprehensive community based...
by CDO Review Staff | Mar 18, 2019 | Asset Management and Trading
Global regulators are cracking down on financial institutions with leaky supervision over their own employees’ trading activities. SteelEye changes the game with a surveillance system that integrates data from such varied sources as employee behaviour tracking, voice...
by CDO Review Staff | Mar 18, 2019 | Asset Management and Trading
Franklin Templeton, one of the biggest US investment firms with over $714 billion in assets under management, has turned to data analytics to create value for its clients. Randy Bean describes the changes made by Franklin Templeton in this article from Forbes: To...
by CDO Review Staff | Mar 18, 2019 | Asset Management and Trading
Just six months after he joined Barclay’s as chief data scientist in the UK, John Tang is pulling up stakes and throwing in with Cerberus Capital Management. Before his short stint with Barclay’s, Tang was employed by JP Morgan as head of analytics in corporate and...
by CDO Review Staff | Mar 15, 2019 | Asset Management and Trading
Data management firm Confluence has announced the appointment of Jory Wheeler as the company’s new Senior Vice President for Engineering. Wheeler will be responsible for the development of Confluence’s data management products. More on Wheeler’s new appointment was...