186 Results from 2024, /markets
Guy Melamed CEO at Exberry
Traditional financial infrastructure providers are increasingly considering upgrading their trading systems to align with modern times. This is both based upon strategic developments taking place over the past couple of years (Microsoft investing £1.5bn in LSEG, Nasdaq collaborating with Amazon for cloud infrastructure, and Google injecting $1bn i...
11 January 2024 /inclusion /markets Capital Market Technology
Retired Member
Introduction While credit unions have experienced a slight slowdown in growth, they have proven to be more resistant to market fluctuations compared to banks. Despite facing challenges, credit unions have managed to maintain their share and even make gains in specific sectors. This article explores the recent trends in credit unions' consumer loan...
11 January 2024 /payments /markets Banking
Steve Wilcockson Technical Product Marketing at Quantexa
More than a few computing luminaries have sadly passed over recently, unsurprising given many pioneers from the fifties, sixties, and seventies reaching end of life. One who caught my eye was Niklaus Wirth who departed this world on New Year's Day. He was a Swiss computer scientist, associated most with ETH Zurich, but he also had sixties Silicon V...
11 January 2024 /people /markets Capital Markets Technology
Janine Grainger CEO at Easy Crypto
Listening to the news, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)’s approval of a Bitcoin spot exchange traded fund (ETF) has widely been lauded as ‘the legitimisation’ of Bitcoin and other cryptos. One news outlet even referred to it as “The adults finally stepping into the room…” OR… is it simply a matter of them finally catching up? Bitc...
11 January 2024 /crypto /markets
John Bertrand MD at Tec 8 Limited
Brilliant start to the year with HSBC head of wealth announcing a new Foreign Exchange (Forex) app to take on Wise (1). The app is for existing and new customers wanting to make foreign exchange transactions instantly. This activity fully supports the 695th Lord Mayor of London Lecture on “Harnessing Entrepreneurship to Build a World-Class Economy...
05 January 2024 /payments /markets Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
2023 was a troublesome year for many on our planet – wars, violence, population displacement, catastrophes, extremism, higher costs of living and poverty. Folks working in our industry were comparatively lucky, some of us invigorated by the exciting GenerativeAI tornado. Just as HFT transformed the vocabulary of capital markets in the 2000s, and d...
03 January 2024 /regulation /markets Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services
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