In this webinar, we will review the latest trends on how exchanges, trading systems and data providers use cloud and AI to produce data insights for their own consumption. First, David Easthope will provide an overview about insights derived from a recent Coalition Greenwich and Google Cloud white paper on the topic. This will be followed by a fireside chat of industry leaders.

Topics covered will include: Current focus areas – internal insight workloads (e.g., data transmission, processing, analysis and long-term storage) vs. internal services (e.g., monitoring and surveillance). Planned public cloud workloads for the next 12 months – data mining, data insights, advanced analytics, and building a multicloud foundation on public cloud AI/ML plans for the next 12 months – faster analytics, risk reviews, and data quality maintenance

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We used to say “news moves markets.” But can you fill in the idea-generation gaps when there is no news, or economic releases? Is Alt Data in Asia/Pacific maturing to the point where one can process events – regularly – with a high degree of success (alpha)? Who in the region is providing Alt Data and the associated curation technology, how is the data sourced; what’s the take-up been like?

What’s the performance track record for Alt Data in Asia/Pacific? Who’s using it?
How has COVID-19 impacted Alt Data? Are Alt Data consumer spending products collecting e-commerce transactions?
Curation and processing alternatives: what is provided “as a Service”; can it be combined with other KPI data – easily?
Can Alt Data providers generate “panic indexes”?
Where can APAC Alt Data be acquired: Alt Data “boutiques”, Data Vendors, Data Marketplaces(DMs)?

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On August 6, the US SEC unveiled a timetable for the new consolidated tape plan. What will it take to get the new plan operational in a year? In a separate order, the regulator has also opened the door for competing consolidators. This session will address: Briefly, what is the new consolidated tape plan? How does it differ from the current plan? Is the timeline realistic? Is it genuine or aspirational? What do market participants need to do to prepare? How did the SROs arrive at this plan? What were their considerations? Do they still have concerns? Who should care about competing consolidators? Just HFTs? What effect will decentralized consolidators have on latency, best execution, and commercial arrangements?

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No pre-requisite knowledge of cloud required to join this primer. Hear from both data providers distributing data and data consumers ingesting data how distribution and consumption patterns are changing, and understand some of the considerations that go into shifting the evaluation, procurement, and use of data in the cloud. In this webinar, you’ll learn:

What are the primary distribution methods being used to distribute data in the cloud?
What new distribution patterns are evolving given cloud-based services and tools?
What types of financial or alternative data lend themselves well to cloud-based distribution/analysis?
Why are firms shifting to cloud-based data distribution/consumption, looking at scale, security, ease of use?
Why are data providers and consumers increasingly using data marketplaces?

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New Member Briefing: Barchart
Speaker: Mark Wator, Head of Sales – Financial & Media, Barchart

Fireside Chat: Decentralized Finance – A New Data Frontier
Interviewer: Kirsten Wegner, CEO, Modern Markets Initiative
Speaker: Jim Greco, Head of Quantitative Trading, Radkl (a GTS company)
Crypto currencies are rapidly changing the face of trading, investing and data. In this fireside chat, hear from two experts on the front lines of digital assets discuss the future – and impact – of DeFi, data access and regulatory challenges. Moderator Kirsten Wegner, the CEO of the Modern Markets Initiative, will interview Jim Greco, head of quantitative trading at Radkl, a new and exciting crypto trading firm launched by global market maker GTS and funded in part by Steven Cohen of Point72.

Google vs. Oracle Supreme Court Decision – Effect on Financial Services Industry
Speaker: Joel Wolfson, Associate General Counsel, Bank of America Merrill Lynch
The U.S. Supreme Court decision in the Google v. Oracle case concerns what API computer code can be protected by copyright law. But the decision is about the copyright “fair use” doctrine in a broader context, and so has much to say to those in the financial industry.

New Member Briefing: Crizit
Speaker: Ethan Shen, Managing Partner, Crizit

FISD Update

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