781 Results from /markets
Hirander Misra Chairman and CEO at GMEX Group
While the COVID-19 pandemic poses a significant threat to mainstream industry and commerce, it will be even more devastating to Small-to-Medium Enterprises (‘SMEs’), as a large number may not survive the economic impact of the crisis. This issue affects SME activity worldwide, however it is especially pronounced in emerging markets, where access t...
28 April 2020 /markets /covid-19 Trends in Financial Services
Retired Member
Around this time last week, one of the main global-oil-price benchmarks, the West Texas Intermediate (WTI) exchange-traded future, traded below zero as the contract for May settlement approached expiry on Monday. This meant that sellers of the contract on that final day of trading were being forced into paying buyers to offload their positions, ra...
28 April 2020 /regulation /markets Capital Markets Technology
Saurabha Sahu Senior Solution Consultant at Wipro Limited
Humans are ready to spend a skyrocketing cost for their own health or even towards the near and dears. Today the Healthcare industry is plagued by exponentially rising the cost of hospitals, insufficient practices as well as breaching the patient data or records. These expensive problems are impelling towards an innovative, immutable solution. Re
27 April 2020 /crypto /markets Blockchain Observations
Matthew Cheung CEO at ipushpull
Firms embracing the latest communication, collaboration and workflow platforms have a significant advantage. Coronavirus has caused a dramatic shift in working practices globally, with particular challenges for front office workers in capital markets. Financial institutions have moved operations in differing ways but there has been a clear progres...
17 April 2020 /markets /covid-19 Capital Market Technology
Keith Stonell Managing Director, EMEA at Guidewire
The Future at Lloyd’s Blueprint One, the plan to transform the market, has been covered widely by City of London insurance pundits, but there is still a long way to go before we know what it looks like. The Blueprint represents a decisive moment in Lloyd’s of London’s history in that it is a break with previous attempts to modernise the London Mar...
14 April 2020 /markets Digital Insurance Trends
According to a Google search: “5G will support billions of connections” and “5G will have a tremendous effect on economy” and “5G solves problems we haven’t yet encountered”. In isolation, it almost sounds like 5G is a wizard that will solve all the problems of this world and perhaps even issues beyond our Earth. I’m not that optimistic, but after...
06 April 2020 /devops /markets 5G Payments Schemes and Strategies 2020 - 2035
Dane Thacker CEO at Toopotech
As restrictions on working from anywhere but home tighten trading operations are moving at different operational speeds with varying degrees of success. It was a very quick transition from office, to DR facility, to home. People had families, schooling, medical issues and all the other considerations we now know we need to live in isolation. Under...
02 April 2020 /cloud /markets Capital Markets Technology
Matthew Ruoss CEO at Scorpeo UK
Every year, hundreds of Scrip dividends are issued by companies. Managers must make a relatively straightforward decision: take a cash dividend or take additional shares. It’s the duty of the manager to select the option that proves most lucrative to their clients. Unfortunately, many managers and advisers either opt for the less profitable option ...
31 March 2020 /wealth /markets Post-Trade Forum
Are you still worrying whether or not we’re headed for a recession? Don’t. We’re there, and the long-term effects of this one are going to be seismic in scale. Your choices are to stop reading and go stock up on canned foods and toilet paper or join me in figuring out how to beat this thing so future generations don’t hate us as much as our childr...
27 March 2020 /markets /covid-19 Bigger than Technology
Chris Holmes Senior Vice President at KAE Consulting
The current pandemic sweeping through most of the world has wreaked havoc in most areas of the economy as well as our personal lives. As schools and businesses gradually shut down, governments plead for people to stay home to contain the spread of Covid-19. With the virus showing no sign of going away, countries could remain on lockdown for many m...
27 March 2020 /markets /covid-19 Trends in Financial Services
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