Month: May 2019

Citigroup Launches Markets Acceleration Lab to „Create a Pipeline of Unique (Trading/Tech/AI) Talent“

Back in 2009, Citigroup started its series of Global Innovation Labs, in Dublin – followed by Israel, Singapore, Mexico, and London, with a few hundred technologists globally to focus on more rapid research, tactical experimentation and prototyping of next-generation client solutions. Moreover, the labs are a way to plug into local innovation ecosystems and, via …

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IBM and Thomson Reuters Launch AI-powered Real-Time RegTech Compliance Solution

In a new collaboration, IBM and Thomson Reuters will offer financial institutions access to an AI-Powered RegTech Solution. According to a press release, the service will be delivered through the IBM Cloud with real-time financial data from thousands of sources, backed by domain knowledge from IBM consulting subsidiary Promontory Financial Group. Promontory was founded in …

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Citadel Hires Morgan Stanley Quant Veteran in Battle for ML/AI/Quant Talent

Glen Popick, for two decades the Global Head of Fixed-Income Strats at Morgan Stanley’s Investment Bank, just joined the $30 billion hedge fund Citadel as Head of their Fixed Income, Currencies and Commodities (FICC) Business. Han Lee, a PhD in Theoretical Physics and former Global Head of Quant Analytics for RBS, is taking over Popick’s …

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VC firms are becoming RIAs to invest more broadly and in bigger buckets – blurring the lines of demarcation for investing in the age of ML/AI

Andreessen Horowitz last month filed papers to turn the 10-year-old VC firm into a registered investment advisor, RIA, to invest more broadly and more flexibly. Forbes in a feature called it “Andreesen Horowitz is blowing up the venture capital model (again)”. a16z, as the firm is also known, was one of the AI/tech investing pioneers, …

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