MiFiD2 will have global impacts With MifiD2 fast approaching and low likelihood that the regulatory changes will be postponed, the impacts on global market participants continue to loom large. Rarely does a week go by that the various issues and changes from MifiD2 are not mentioned in financial industry news. The topic that gains the […]
MIFID II’s research unbundling requirements begin to take full effect in 2018 and global asset management firms are responding by standardizing their approach across regions. As these global firms continue to adapt to the ever changing regulatory environment; Greenwich Associates recent report covered by The Trade “found large buy-side firms with a presence in multiple […]
“The unbundling of research and execution entailed by MiFID2 is going to overhaul the whole research industry…” – Guillaume Andreu In the timely and insightful article on LinkedIn “Unbundling of research and execution induced by MiFID2 spawns the rise of FinTechs on the research market” by Guillaume Andreu, FinTech firms in the research arena as well […]
Relevancy and accuracy are not necessarily conjoined twins of reporting or news curation as we have learned over the last month in the U.S. Between calls for only real news to be provided on Facebook to new reports that there may be a liberal bias to Google’s search results – the issue of what is real […]
Researchers, and large corporations (IBM, Google, Facebook) are all searching for the holy grail in machine learning – understanding and responding to the basics of language. A deep learning algorithm created by Google has already been able to learn from their extensive technical support logs and through this learning is now able to create responses […]
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) in the UK is challenging the status quo for research in the equities markets around the world. The buy-side (an analog for the individual or retail investor in the institutional money management space) is needing to re-think how they pay for research to aid them in their investment decision making […]