Fintech Limeglass has launched to'atomise' research by using technology to tag reports in real-time so that they can be easily and quickly searched by the recipient at a granular level. Rowland Park, chief executive and co-founder of Limeglass, said in a report this week that the research market needs innovation as the majority of reports are still being consumed by the buy side as multiple page PDF and HTML documents sent by email, despite advances in technology. Park has more than 30 years' experience in the research industry and founded and grew start-ups IDEA Global and 4CAST, which focused on macroeconomics, policy and financial markets intelligence. Park wrote in the report that financial decision making rests on a three-legged stool – market data; breaking news; and research, which provides wider context for decision making. "The development of tools to better handle market data and breaking news have transformed, and continue to transform, the way activity in the financial markets is conducted," he added.

Fund managers are leaving returns on the table by not involving their … to harness more data sources, artificial intelligence and machine learning.

Dark pools are electronic trading platforms that have emerged in the past decade in advanced markets. They allow traders to buy or sell large blocks of shares without having to disclose their identities, the volumes or prices, unlike traditional exchanges. They are popular with asset-management companies, pension funds and insurance firms which need to conduct a lot of large transactions, because they are cheaper and easier to carry out via electronic trading platforms. Merrin founded Liquidnet in 2001 in the US and later expanded into Europe and Asia-Pacific. The platform has seen trading volume in Asia-Pacific of US$42 billion so far this year, up 57 per cent from a year earlier.