Steve Wilcockson Product Marketing at Quantexa
It is rare to see quants talk about trading systems and strategies so publicly. Recently Avi Palley, Lead Quantitative Strategist in eFX Trading at Wells Fargo and Carlos Zendejas, also a one-time Quant and now CEO and co-founder of Digital Q did just that,in the Deep Q Cast series about building AI-Ready trading systems. Their conversation is co...
07 March 2023 /devops /markets Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services
Nowhere is cloud use being more dynamically adopted at the moment than in finance - just ask any cloud vendor, from hyperscaler to cloud service provider to SaaS provider, about how strategically important the sector is to them and their current growth. Big, massive, deals in financial services offer huge prestige when successful. Financial serv...
12 January 2023 /cloud /markets Banking Architecture
Think carefully, someone could be watching! Busy Regulators! Regulators have been busy. Organizations such as SMBC Nikko, JP Morgan, Atlantic Trading, Natwest, and Robinhood have all recently incurred one or more significant fines, reputational damage and criminal prosecution – courtesy of the power and tenacity of regulators. A particular reg...
23 August 2022 /regulation /crime Financial Risk Management
In this blog, I outline briefly: - Common Applications of Data Science - Definitions: Machine learning, deep learning, data engineering and data science - Why Java for data science workflows, for both production and research. Common Applications of Data Science The blogosphere is full of descriptions about how data science and “AI’ i...
30 April 2020 Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services
The March Tiobe Index is out. I follow Java (1, up short term), Python (3, continual rise), R (11, steady mid-term) MATLAB (15, down mid-term), SAS (21, steady-ish) and Julia (49, wildly down?) as my interests tend towards deployment of quant and data science models into production architectures. Some thoughts on these platforms are below. What do ...
13 March 2020 /ai /devops Capital Markets Technology
I have for some time been aware of companies increasingly submitting code to open source repositories, some quite openly like the hedge funds Man AHL and Two Sigma Investments. Others have jumped on the "cool open source" bandwagon. The subject is frequently discussed on the conference circuit and blogosphere, particularly in data scienc...
11 January 2020 /ai /devops Innovation in Financial Services
I work in financial services, typically quantitative technology applications. A recent employer of mine was an imagery company, providing satellite and drone-sourced data into finance and insurance. In this heady mix of finance and space, I worked with people from defence, aerospace, geospatial, surveying and satellite communications backgrounds w...
11 November 2019 /ai /devops Trends in Financial Services
There is a Youtube video on the collapse and causes of the collapse of the Mariana Dam disaster in 2015, specifically using satellite imagery to assess key elements before, during and after the Fundão Dam collapse. The Fundão Dam was a tailings dam, built to accommodate the waste resulting from the extraction of iron ore from the extensive Germano...
16 April 2019 Financial Risk Management
It's been a busy and fun Autumn on the London financial services conference circuit. I've been lucky enough to attend a healthy diversity of events with distinct though intersecting agendas. I've attended two alternative data events, both heady mixes of vendor/user speed-dating interspersed with panel discussions, one up-and-coming Quant event and...
11 December 2018 /regulation MiFID
In the quest for alpha, a growing number of portfolio managers have been exploring the esoteric world of alternative data. Some forms, such as sentiment data based on terabytes of news texts and social media, are well established and have matured to the point of securing devoted followings. Other forms, such as satellite imagery that sheds light on...
14 November 2018 Capital Markets Technology
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