Ben Grant Commercial Director at Aronova
Improvements in working capital management will enable all organisations to create value and enhance the way they operate. According to PWC, there is €1.2tr of excess working capital tied up on balance sheets. Those who release the blockages which hide this capital will be able to boost growth and create more potential for investment. Evaluating ...
22 July 2020 /markets Capital Markets Technology
Alan McIntyre Transaction Reporting SME at Strait Downstream Ltd
As we slowly emerge from our socially distanced bubbles and contemplate the view beyond our own back garden towards the wider world again, we thought to cast our eyes stateside. More specifically, towards the North American regulatory reporting landscape. So why is that piquing our interest in particular? Well, pre-lockdown, quite a lot happened to...
22 July 2020 /regulation /markets
Ivy Schmerken Editorial Director at FlexTrade Systems
An increasing number of capital markets firms are adopting machine learning and other artificial intelligence techniques to build algorithmic trading systems that learn from data without relying on rules-based systems. With the hiring of data scientists, advances in cloud computing, and access to open source frameworks for training machine learni...
21 July 2020 /markets /covid-19 Capital Markets Technology
Joris Lochy Product Manager at Intix | Co-founder at Capilever
Marketplaces are on the rise! A digital marketplace is an online platform, where different third-parties connect and supply and demand can be matched. This supply/demand can be a specific product or service, but can also facilitate a full customer journey, by matching products and services of multiple vendors for each step of the journey (e.g. a c...
19 July 2020 /startups /markets Innovation in Financial Services
Oliver Kroll Managing Director at Scorable (part of the BondIT Global Group)
As lockdowns following the Covid-19 outbreak are easing, we see some cautious optimism about a beginning economic recovery. But there’s no doubt that this crisis will take its toll on growth in 2020 and beyond. In a report released last month, the OECD outlined two equally probable - and equally gloomy - scenarios for the world economy. In the “
15 July 2020 /markets /covid-19 Financial Risk Management
Anna Monteiro Global Head of Business and Product Development at www.solutions-atlantic.com
It’s July, so naturally, things are starting to heat up here in the northeastern part of the US. Taking a look back at the first half of the year, regulatory organizations were also heating up. I’ve previously written about the need for automation to support global shareholding disclosure obligations due to changes in short position reporting, and...
14 July 2020 /regulation /markets Financial Services Regulation
Daire Ferguson CEO at AvaTrade
Over recent years, unpredictable political and social events have given way to high levels of volatility in the foreign exchange (FX) market. From Brexit to the coronavirus pandemic, the past four years alone have seen strong and frequent market reactions. For instance, 2016 was fraught with political disruption, with both Brexit and Donald Trump’...
08 July 2020 /markets Fintech
Retired Member
Since the implementation Mifid1 in 2007, there has been a lot of talk about a pan-European consolidated tape, whether it would benefit the market, how it might operate and why it has not come about without regulatory pressure. Post 2007 when stocks when allowed to trade on multiple exchanges, market participants who wanted to see the full history a...
07 July 2020 /regulation /markets Financial Services Regulation
Marketplaces are hip and trendy on the internet and will likely evolve even more in the near future. In some markets (like food delivery, transportation, commerce, holiday…) they already represent double digit market shares (e.g. in 2018 $1.86 trillion was spent globally on the top 100 online marketplaces), but for the financial services sector, ...
30 June 2020 /devops /markets Open Banking
Antonio Ferre IT Manager at Plastic Forte
Recently, the European Parliament has included the Functional Size concept (base for IT strategic information such as Productivy, Quality or PDR, in spite of low level development methods, tools, trends, ...) as Transversal Engineering Framework in the European Agency for the operational management of large-scale IT Systems in the Area of Freedo
25 June 2020 /people /markets IT Metrics
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