How can Instagram help hedge funds make better trades?
Quandl supplies financial, economic and alternative data to a select clientele of professional investors.
Blockchain 'Atomic Ledger' experiment records 20 million timestamped stock trades
The experiment involved the National Physical Laboratory, the Toronto Stock Exchange (TMX), and Z/Yen.
Coinsilium to launch Terrastream for Gibraltar's blockchain regulatory framework
Gibraltar is expected to become the first jurisdiction globally to develop a regulatory framework for blockchains.
Ethereum identity system uPort working with Brazil's Ministry of Planning
uPort is a self-sovereign identity system that allows people to own their identity and control the flow of their personal information.
IBM enlists Walmart, Nestlé, Unilever, Dole for food safety blockchain
The IBM Blockchain Platform solution also includes Golden State Foods, Kroger, McCormick and Company and more.
R3 and Synechron collaborate on phase 2 of corporate KYC
The LEIA 2 project includes 12 banks and follows on from the KYC work already carried out by R3 with its members.
FlexTrade launches best execution platform with MiFID II in mind
MiFID II's 3 January 2018 implementation date is looming.
Deep learning can read the tea leaves in market data
Former professor of nuclear science Henri Waelbroeck discusses the inner workings of the Portware Brain.
'Hello World': Blockstream Satellite to broadcast Bitcoin to the entire planet
Blockstream Satellite offers a low-cost way for anyone, anywhere to operate and maintain Bitcoin nodes.
SWIFT provides instant payments in the US
US banks will have the option to connect to new TCH real-time payments system via SWIFT gateway.
Enterprise Ethereum Alliance launches Legal Industry Working Group
Some 14 law firms and institutions have joined EEA's group to establish the legal status of smart contracts.
What have Manchester United, HFT and deep learning got in common?
Gaurav Chakravorty, co-founder of AI investment advisors qplum, compares sport to trading.
Russia's central securities depository and Waves building blockchain platform
Russia's National Settlement Depository (NSD) has kickstarted a crypto assets platform with the Waves team.
Synereo launches WildSpark to reward content creation with cryptocurrency
Incentives on WildSpark are facilitated by AMP, the cryptocurrency token issued by Synereo in 2015.
HSBC and IBM develop cognitive intelligence solution to digitise global trade
IBM helps HSBC to automate processing of millions of documents used daily in international commerce.
Blockchain, big data and the value of global trade
Blockchain and data science experts talk about the hidden value of distributed ledger technology.
Neudata releases version 2 of its 'Scout' alternative data platform
Neudata provides hedge funds with metadata about the vast array of alternative data sets.
Solidum Partners completes first catastrophe bond on a blockchain
$148m of notes were settled using the ILSBlockchain.
Eleven banks develop trade finance app on R3's Corda DLT platform
App built following twelve months of development and testing, holds potential to improve trade flows, particularly for SMEs in developing economies.
Hard forks and contract hacks – Tezos aims to solve blockchain's problems
Tezos is a smart contract blockchain platform that recently raised $232m.
Filecoin laments shutting out crypto supporters to meet SEC regulations
IPFS creator Juan Benet talks about Filecoin, which has already gathered $52m from investors.
MultiChain 1.0 released: Gideon Greenspan muses on blockchain privacy and smart contract languages
MultiChain's partner programme includes the likes of Accenture, Cognizant and Medici Ventures.
Canada's ETHWaterloo to be world's largest Ethereum hackathon
Ethereum chief scientist Vitalik Buterin dropped out of University of Waterloo, Ontario.
Alex Tapscott launches digital asset investment firm NextBlock Global with $20m financing
NextBlock Global will immediately give investors diversified exposure to the most promising investments.
Quantopian ensures the alpha never runs out
Quantitative trading is a production problem because quantitative strategies don't last forever.
R3's Richard Brown: IBM should adopt Corda
Richard Gendal Brown, chief technology officer at R3, was previously executive architect for banking and financial markets at IBM.
Accord Project joins Hyperledger to push standards for smart contracts
Hyperledger welcomed 10 new members in total.
There is no 'but it's blockchain' exemption in US Securities law
Stephen D. Palley, a lawyer in the Washington D.C. office of Anderson Kill, talks about token sales.
Nasdaq to acquire surveillance specialist Sybenetix
Sybenetix combines behavioral analytics and cognitive computing with financial markets expertise.
Newsweek hosts second AI and Data Science in Capital Markets event in New York City
An expanded programme will include HFT, quantum computing, plus a series of data science classroom seminars.
