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Karthikeyan Rengasamy Chief Architect and Research Scholar at TATA Consultancy Services
For almost half a century, scientists across the world have put significant efforts in building quantum computers and were looking at use cases for wider adoption. Quantum Computing is a parallel computing system in nature, so it is of no surprise that it is gaining traction in a wide variety of businesses, especially in the financial services se
27 June 2022 /wealth /markets
Willem Lambrechts Managing Director at Drebbel
What a day last Thursday! 2 years and 2 weeks elapsed since the last FIX EMEA trading conference in London! An absolute eternity! I felt excited like a schoolboy leaving home for the first day of the new school year… Who will be there again? Who switched classes? How did things go over the last 2 years? How well did it feel, getting on the Eurostar...
29 March 2022 /cloud /markets
Mohammad Abidi Vice President of Engineering at Baton Systems
While front-office technology has enabled trading in nanoseconds, post-trade processing remains manually intensive, opaque, restrictive and slow. Interoperable SaaS platforms can provide efficient, future-proof solutions allowing firms to achieve friction-free processing implemented with minimal disruption. Post-trade processing: time to refres...
18 March 2022 /wholesale /devops
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The pandemic has propelled us into an environment where geography has become secondary. The ubiquitous Microsoft Teams or Zoom calls do not differentiate location when they bring everyone together in a virtual room with limited visual cues of where people are based. Conversation starters such as ‘what’s the weather like there?’ and for east to wes...
28 September 2021 /markets
The ship has sailed. Remote working will remain, post-Covid, even in wealth and asset management. The debate now centres around the balance between remote and office working, and the long term effects of each. Schroders was the first London asset manager to take a stance, announcing its decision in August 2020 to offer long-term homeworking. There...
21 April 2021 /people /wealth
James Wooster COO at Glue42
In the prior two blogs of this series, we had introduced the fragmented desktop, and outlined the advantages of using a Desktop Integration Platform (DIP) to solve the problem. In this blog, we look at emerging standards in Desktop Integration and how vendor solutions provide advantages over homegrown solutions. We round out the conversation wit...
15 April 2021 /wealth /devops
Daniel Geddes Global Head of Product Management at Torstone Technology
Older technology is underperforming, as are the services built upon it. Where a financial institution has placed significant investment in a core system over many years there comes a point where the technology and architecture are no longer able meet the demands of the current business processes in many key areas. The system becomes legacy and its...
14 April 2021 /cloud /devops
In our prior blog, we had introduced desktop fragmentation, the problems posed by it, and how a Desktop Integration Platform (DIP) can solve them. In this blog we delve further into the architecture and structure of DIPs. Providing a seamless user experience to end-users such as traders, analysts, data scientists, etc. has long been a challenge ow...
13 April 2021 /wealth /devops
Wealth managers must master hyper-personalisation in order to retain revenues during the great wealth transfer. For wealth managers striving to achieve competitive advantage, the depth of client relationships heavily influences service quality, loyalty, share of wallet and – ultimately – profitability. Increasingly, wealth managers are reassessing...
23 March 2021 /wealth
Ivy Schmerken Editorial Director at FlexTrade Systems
With so many traders working from home, the pandemic is said to have accelerated the shift to electronic trading in U.S. Treasury bonds. Now industry leaders are debating the future of trading protocols in the world’s largest and most liquid market. On a recent industry webinar, bond experts said that supporting multiple trading protocols is key t...
11 December 2020 /regulation /markets
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