Briefly outline your professional background and current role / responsibilities at BlackRock. I started as a programmer analyst developing trading systems at Goldman Sachs more than 29 years ago.

Information lies at the heart of investing and trading — information on companies and how they’re performing, the prices of individual stocks and how other investors are playing the market In light of ...

Market data is the lifeblood of trading firms, powering everything from algorithmic strategies to risk management and regulatory compliance. However, it may often be inefficiently managed due to high ...

While trading volumes and profits are soaring, trading jobs appear to be few and far between. There’s always been a tech war within the trading industry. Our firm prioritizes human insight over ...

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Time has always mattered on the trading floor. A delay of a few seconds could cost millions. Now, with the emergence of generative AI (gen AI), it’s the power of real-time that matters most. Together, ...

Welcome to Data Spotlight, our series showcasing insights derived from Bloomberg’s 8,000+ enterprise datasets available on data.bloomberg.com via Data License. In this edition we take a look at ...

The surge in market data prices in recent times has now reached an untenable level, wherein costs have now overtaken firms’ budgets, according to a joint whitepaper released by Substantive Research ...

When prop trading firm and crypto market-maker Jump Trading launched the decentralized Pyth Network in 2021, it had competition with Chainlink, Universal Market Access, and others. But Daniel ...

How do you decide what to pay an employee? This is a simple and important question with a complex answer. With a volatile labor market, global inflation, and the continued rise of distributed work, it ...