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I’ve spent most of my career working in or running software integration businesses. It began with object brokers, then middleware, then ESBs and subsequently included all manner of adjacent technologi...
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Despite the view that MiFID II is a European regulation, US investment managers are experiencing disruption as they align their research payment and execution practices with the influential standard. ...
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SAAS users experience frequent UI changes. The sales order button suddenly moves from top left to bottom right of the screen. The funnel report disappears from the splash screen. I could go on and on ...
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As banks are busy digitalizing every corner of their firms to prepare for the "Fourth Industrial Revolution", many seem to be missing a key complement to their digital adoption strategy whic...
I’ve covered decentralization in my previous post. It is also important to understand another related fallacy – consensus. Consensus is the foundation of any blockchain protocol which makes the “decen...
Understandably, a lot of the buzz that resides around Open Banking disseminates from the belief that great opportunities await the everyday consumer. And I am not one to say this won’t come to fruitio...
SEPA, PSD2, GDPR etc where only the start. We need more EU and national regulation in the data economy. PSD2 means that there will be standardized access to money data for the application you empower....
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In today’s ever-evolving IT systems world the cloud & big data are no longer buzzwords, they drive strategy and an even heavy chunk of budgeting discussion. As big organizations gear up to invest ...