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Stephane Rio CEO at Opensee
Regulatory reporting requirements and time-sensitive business data demands are forcing financial institutions to confront the challenges of defining their global data journey strategy. At stake is constant access to aggregate or run impact simulations on heterogeneous sets of data that get larger every day. Institutions face demands from regulator...
24 October 2022 /regulation /markets
Guy Melamed CEO at Exberry
Introduction: The Changing Trading and Investment Landscape The investment world, which previously relied on fund managers or advisors and was only accessible to high-net-worth individuals, has evolved with many alternative investment options now available to individual investors. A new wave of investors is also entering the alternative investment...
24 October 2022 /cloud /markets
Exchange marketplaces will experience several challenges during a recession, just like every other business. While cutting costs is prudent, failing to keep up with changes can jeopardize the long-term performance of any business, which is true for exchange marketplaces as well. Whether it be establishing a new marketplace or expanding an existing...
20 July 2022 /markets
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
Retired Member
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
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