1026 Results from 2017
Retired Member
Algorithm trading (also called as Black Box Trading) is very advanced & sophisticated trading mechanism which uses complex mathematical formulas & models to make quick decisions & transactions in financial markets. According to Technavio, market research Company, algorithm trading is expected to grow at a CAGR of 10.3% globally by 2020...
29 July 2017
Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me
The term, or in this case the word “blackhat” in tech generally refers to a criminal hacker. The opposite of black is white and a “whitehat” is a security professional. These terms originate from the “spaghetti western” movies when the bad guy cowboy wore a black hat and the law wore white hats. Fun huh?! Blackhat is also the name of the largest c...
28 July 2017 /security
Chris Brown CTO at Trusek
There has been a huge amount written about PSD2 recently and much of it appears to be, with the greatest respect, over complicating the issue. Very fundamentally, to provide for all of the requirements of PSD2, we have three transaction types: balance, transaction list / statement and payment. Obviously, since these requests are coming from co...
28 July 2017 /payments Innovation in Financial Services
One of the biggest questions in modern banking is how branches can maintain their relevance in an increasingly digital age. Usage of mobile and internet banking has grown exponentially, but bank branches still have a relevant and important role to play. To keep winning customer’s hearts and minds however, they must continue to transform. Aware of...
28 July 2017 /retail
Stacey Small Business Development at The Glue
At the latest Apple Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) in San Jose, June 17 2017, Apple confirmed the rumours that they will create their own payments service which will be linked with Apple’s mobile wallet, Apple Pay. This will allow users to send money directly to their contacts via iMessage. Currently Apple Pay only allows users to load thei...
28 July 2017 /retail Innovation in Financial Services
As the deadline for the implementation MiFID II fast approaches, financial firms are under growing pressure to take steps to ensure they’re fully compliant. A common issue, however, is that many organisations are still unclear about the full impact MiFID II will have on their organisation. According to recent research conducted by IPC, while 77 pe...
27 July 2017 /regulation Financial Services Regulation
Ivy Schmerken Editorial Director at FlexTrade Systems
Last week, SEC Chairman Jay Clayton said he asked the staff to develop a plan for creating a Fixed Income Market Structure Committee to advise the SEC on regulatory issues in the fixed-income markets. Clayton said the fixed income committee would be modeled after the Equity Market Structure Committee (EMSAC), and would be comprised of a diverse gr...
27 July 2017 /regulation
Willem Lambrechts Managing Director at Drebbel
As a financial technology broker, we have the privilege of operating in the heart of the financial technology eco-system. From this position we observe a quite odd but stunning anomaly within financial institutions. Every single day in the financial press we read about financial institutions investing vast amounts of money in emerging technologies ...
27 July 2017 /regulation MiFID
Over a year has passed since the publication of the Panama Papers, an unprecedented data leak of 11.5 million documents that revealed the secret financial dealings of over 214,488 offshore entities. This high-profile leak ultimately brought to the fore the lack of transparency surrounding shell companies. The records revealed the multitude of ways...
26 July 2017 /regulation Capital Markets Technology
Recent conversations around the healthcare reform have piqued my interest and prompted me to ask the question that politicians often do not ask, which is “What do you want from a certain regulation?” and apply it to my industry, “What do you want from FinTech innovation”? Let’s take the case of Obamacare. If the question was asked by fair-minded p...
26 July 2017
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