Philippine Stock Exchange Halts Trading Indefinitely On March 17, the Philippine Stock Exchange suspended trading until further notice as a safety measure for traders and employees throughout the coronavirus outbreak. The decision came after Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte placed the island of Luzon under “enhanced community quarantine,” said Ramon Monzon, president and CEO of the exchange, in a memo. IBM Cloud Texas Data Center Disrupted IBM Cloud’s Dallas, Texas, data center

After acquiring AI specialist Kensho Technologies almost two years ago, S&P Global is keen to leverage Kensho’s skillsets across its business silos. S&P Global Market Intelligence, which provides Kensho with market data, began by using Kensho to build out its Global Marketplace. This will serve as a “storefront” for the data provider. Now the company is expanding Kensho’s focus to S&P Global Platts, a source of benchmark price assessments for the commodities market. Platts is using Kensho’s

When it comes to digital transformations, WatersTechnology has traditionally broached the subject by detailing what banks and other financial institutions have told us about their own efforts and initiatives. This time, we spoke with Jay Finkelman, professor and chair of industrial-organizational business psychology at the Chicago School of Professional Psychology, about the effects digital transformations have on financial institutions’ very-much-still-human employees, who are often thrown...

Knoema, an end-to-end data and knowledge management platform, has acquired Adaptive Management, an alternative data aggregator and solutions provider, for an undisclosed amount. Adaptive brings 1,300 alternative datasets into Knoema’s global time-series database. The addition of Adaptive brings Knoema’s total number of datasets and data sources up to more than 30,000 and roughly 1,700, respectively. Charles Poliacof, Knoema CEO, says the pairing will offer a user experience with a heavy

S&P Global Market Intelligence is working on a new platform, dubbed S&P Global Marketplace, which will serve as a “storefront” for the data provider. The goal is to provide clients with an easier way to explore and discover datasets from across the organization, says Warren Breakstone, S&P Global’s chief product officer of data management solutions. The launch target is set for this spring. Through Marketplace, clients will be able to access data documentation, sample data, data dictionaries