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There is still uncertainty around the fate of the Order Protection Rule, a key rule governing U.S. stock trading that has led to more complexity, speed and order types, but also protects retail invest...
Most organisations aspire to be on good terms with their suppliers; indeed, collaboration has become something of a buzzword amongst supply chain professionals. Still, there is a problem: the nature o...
GLG Partners has hired a head of machine learning. Financial News reports that this is a new role entirely. The article points out that the volume of data that GLG is utilizing is growing. A similar ...
2016 was punctuated by a large number of banks announcing their intentions to cut costs. In the UK we saw efficiency drives from the like of HSBC and Lloyds Banking Group, with the latter publicly tar...
It’s crunch time for the Big Data crunchers. Having lavished millions of dollars on data scientists to search for patterns in a deluge of digital information, banks and financial institutions need to ...
Whilst there’s little denying that AI, machine learning and automation are some of the most important developing technologies, headlines that announce: “The robots are taking our jobs!” may be a littl...
There is big change afoot in the world of retail banking. Over the past few weeks, the rollout of the much-discussed Open Banking Standard has begun. The new recommendations for the way banks share da...
As the FCA publishes its near final rules on MiFID II and fines a former investment banker for sharing confidential information over WhatsApp, now is a good time to look at why firms need to be able t...
I am quite fascinated with the European Central Bank’s (ECB’s) AnaCredit Regulation that came into effect on 18th May 2016 – A regulation that requires granular credit data sets from the national cent...
Mobile technology is a form of technology that is mostly used in cellular communication and other related aspects. It uses a form of platform where by many transmitters have the ability to send data a...
If you knew that you were wasting 15% of your IT development budget, how much effort would you put into solving the problem? I’m guessing you’d move mountains to eradicate that level of waste in your ...
When the SEC, last month, announced the proposal from Winklevoss Bitcoin Trust was declined, they made a clear statement to the cryptocurrency community: more security is needed. In their terms, they ...