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Ivy Schmerken Editorial Director at FlexTrade Systems
Many asset managers are wrestling with the decision on whether to keep the order management system (OMS) and execution management system (EMS) as two separate best-of-breed systems, or switch to a single unified platform known as the OEMS. Buy-side firms have been demanding tighter integration between their order management and execution management...
19 December 2017 /regulation
Brian Collings CEO at Torstone Technology Ltd
For those who believe that “go-live” is merely the beginning of the end of the compliance journey, next year will mark yet another milestone for major regulatory implementation. 2018 starts with the long-anticipated go-live of the revised Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II) on 3 January, followed four months later on 25 May, by t...
14 December 2017 /regulation
Ben Marsh CEO at iMeta Technologies
As we noted in our recent ‘Brexit’ blog, the need for managing cross-border complexity in the Client On-boarding and Lifecycle management domain now, more than ever, requires software that can provide flexible workflow and readily configurable rules. In case we have been distracted by the present focus on Brexit in recent months, let’s not forget...
24 November 2017
Retired Member
Nobody ever said it would be easy 2017 has seen the rules change, the financial services sector will never be the same again. Competition is rife, regulation is overwhelming, and customer attitudes are fickle, emerging technologies are now presenting incredible opportunities and if you’re willing to step outside your comfort zone then the benefits ...
21 November 2017 /wholesale
Richard Miller Product Owner at RegDefy (MV37)
A very large number of articles on technology at the moment begin by saying, “[x] technology is one of the industry’s hottest topics right now” or “changes in [y] technology are accelerating ever faster”. This is as a result of living through a ‘technology purple patch’ where there is a step change not only in what the technology can do, but also ...
23 October 2017 /ai
Navigating the turbulent waters of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) can seem like a daunting task to the uninitiated. In fact even the question of how AI relates to ML is answered differently depending on who you ask, as evidenced by the numerous articles about on these topics. In this area, confusion abounds – for example wi...
17 October 2017 /ai
Over a year has passed since the publication of the Panama Papers, an unprecedented data leak of 11.5 million documents that revealed the secret financial dealings of over 214,488 offshore entities. This high-profile leak ultimately brought to the fore the lack of transparency surrounding shell companies. The records revealed the multitude of ways...
26 July 2017 /regulation
Charles Platt President, EMEA at SAP Fioneer
The Star Wars universe is filled with annoying robots; they are terrible workers, nervous, inattentive and sloppy. There is a good reason behind that. For George Lucas, it seems these flawed robots were created as a plot device to justify armies of human clones. Ironically, he had to give his robots “human” qualities to justify increasing headcoun...
18 July 2017
Keith Bear Vice President, Financial Markets at IBM
Last week’s announcement by the seven bank Digital Trade Chain Consortium is another strong indication that the “peak hype” discussions around blockchain are somewhat misplaced. This blockchain network, designed to deliver a trade finance solution across Europe to support small and medium businesses, stands out from the steady flow of other blockc...
05 July 2017
It’s crunch time for the Big Data crunchers. Having lavished millions of dollars on data scientists to search for patterns in a deluge of digital information, banks and financial institutions need to start doing something to make that newfound intel pay. The question is, what? Big Data - the bits and bytes of everyday life harvested from our increa...
25 April 2017
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