Prasoon Mukherjee Director | Head of Securities Services | GSC-India at Societe Generale Bank
Is blockchain capitalist or socialist? Libertarian or collectivist? Leftwing or rightwing? The answers to the above questions are neither or both, as we shall find out in this article, scraping through the past 2500 odd years of human thoughts in shaping societies, culture, commerce, and thereby relating it to the root paradigm that this technolog...
08 September 2020 /crypto /markets Blockchain Observations
Amita Choudhary Marketing Manager at Princeton Growth Accelerator
The link between finances and technology has grown so strong that the rise of fintech as its own field happened very quickly and almost without disrupting the market at first. Today, fintech is one of the most actively growing fields, and it provides lots of opportunities for investment and development. Both take significant skills to take proper ...
27 August 2020 /markets Fintech
Retired Member
Cable started this week with little volatility, slightly edging down below the local support at 1.3090 on Monday. However, a major pullback through the 1.3127 resistance on Tuesday left the GBP/USD pair at 1.3151 at session’s close. With next to no data from the UK in this week’s first two days and positive home sales in the US on Monday, the upwa...
26 August 2020 /markets
Gold has been in a peculiar state on the market for quite some time now, and many investors seem to believe that the trend is going to continue in full force in the coming months and even years. It’s nothing new under the sun for those who’ve been following the markets closely, and it’s something definitely worth paying attention to for those with...
25 August 2020 /markets Finance 2.0
Ivy Schmerken Editorial Director at FlexTrade Systems
Fixed-income traders reflecting on the bond liquidity crisis and volatile markets caused by the global pandemic in March and April are pushing ahead with more automation to solve the liquidity and data-quality issues they faced. Citing the value of aggregation tools to bring in direct pricing streams, portfolio trading, and all-to-all trading proto...
21 August 2020 /regulation /markets Capital Markets Technology
Simon Barnby CMO at Archax
There has and continues to be much talk around digital securities or security tokens, which are securities represented digitally on a blockchain. Many advantages are talked about on how they will disrupt financial services and democratise capital markets for everyone. But to what extent are the advantages down to the technology, a renewed way of t...
20 August 2020 /crypto /markets Capital Markets Technology
Reghunathan Sukumara Pillai Consultant at Infosys
Chat bots or chat engine are an efficient way of communicating with the end consumer. Towards the last few years, chat bots or chat engine has become popular with many B2C establishments – ecommerce shops, Banks, insurance, health care services, online retail etc. Each of these chat engines provide unique features while responding to the customer ...
18 August 2020 /markets Bigger than Technology
Kirston Winters MD, MarkitSERV at IHS Markit
In the latest development in the IBOR transition, on the weekend of July 25th, we saw the major CCPs perform the much-anticipated Euro discounting and price alignment transition from using EONIA to EuroSTR (a.k.a. €STR) for all Euro OTC interest rate products. We understand that all compensation payments have now settled. The question market watch...
06 August 2020 /regulation /markets Financial Services Regulation
Joris Lochy Product Manager at Intix | Co-founder at Capilever
Marketplaces are emerging in every sector and the financial sector is no exception to this trend. For every product or service, for which multiple parties interact, marketplaces unfold to better match the supply and demand and improve the cooperation between the involved parties. Marketplaces have however unique dynamics, due to their multi-facial...
02 August 2020 /startups /markets Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
Since Boris Johnson became the Prime Minister, Britain has in every possible way demonstrated a lack of fear towards a tough deal with the European Union. Over the years of its presence in the European space, Britain has successfully resisted imposition of labor market standards, subordination to the economic and political institutions of the EU, ...
24 July 2020 /people /markets
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