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Symphony Users Rejoice: TaDa Chatbot Provides Real-Time Reference Data directly to Users’ Devices
In today's fast-paced financial industry, time is money. Operations teams spend a significant amount of time manually retrieving and reconciling data, which can be both tedious and error-prone. To address these challenges, ETD has developed the TaDa chatbot on the Symphony platform. In this blog, we look at the many efficiencies chatbots are bringing to financial services businesses and how, by connecting ETD’s reference market data to them, they’re a game-changer for staff.
In today's fast-paced financial industry, time is money. Operations teams spend a significant amount of time manually retrieving and reconciling data, which can be both tedious and error-prone. To address these challenges, ETD has developed the TaDa chatbot on the Symphony platform. In this blog, we look at the many efficiencies chatbots are bringing to financial services businesses and how, by connecting ETD’s reference market data to them, they’re a game-changer for staff.
Simon Coughlan, ETD technology director and Matthew Cheung, CEO of ipushpull discuss the evolution of chatbots, the development of the TaDa chatbot, and where the technology will go from here.
As CFOs plan for the year ahead, here are three key FX trends that are likely to affect the way in which fund managers oversee their currency exposures in 2023.
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Over the last decade, new regulations have been introduced in an attempt to harmonise reporting.
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Forget the slow, error-prone email exchanges, spreadsheets and legacy systems that can see operations teams spending up to 50% of their time manually retrieving and reconciling data across disparate systems.
More than half of tier 2 & 3 banks have an inefficient derivatives reference data workflow, a study by ETD and Acuiti.io has found.
Firms need flexible access to the reference data required to ensure workflows can proceed without interruption. ‘One-size-fits-all’ bulk data licensing models are increasingly less fit for purpose.
Data has always been important to financial markets. In 1850 Paul Julius Reuter used pigeons to carry stock prices between Germany and Brussels because they were faster than trains. Now there are not enough pigeons to carry the amount of data being generated on a daily basis.
Is there a blueprint for delivering and handling market reference data which would allow firms to take advantage of new technologies without instigating massive change management programmes?
Mark Woolfenden and Jonathan Bloch discuss the challenges companies face to get timely corporate actions which are essential for markets to function properly and how they are coming together with a new solution.
MiFID II is part of a wider move towards the complete digitisation of financial services. As the reporting requirements placed on industry become more onerous, electronic trading and general digital transformation become more important.
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Part of a series of articles from our new whitepaper: The reference data revolution: How firms can leapfrog legacy technology
Part of a series of articles from our new whitepaper "The reference data revolution: How firms can leapfrog legacy technology"
Paradise Lost, John Milton's epic books of poems, concerns the biblical story of the Fall of Man: the temptation of Adam and Eve by the fallen angel Satan and their expulsion from the Garden of Eden. Take your pick as to which world financial market players align most with Milton's characters…
The dictionary entry for the word Utility defines it as a “the state of being useful, profitable, or beneficial”; we sort of knew and understood this but, to deliver all three in financial markets in a mutual, single proposition, is a challenge and the root cause holding back the industry from a big bang change to using utility services.
