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More than a few computing luminaries have sadly passed over recently, unsurprising given many pioneers from the fifties, sixties, and seventies reaching end of life. One who caught my eye was Niklaus ...
2023 was a troublesome year for many on our planet – wars, violence, population displacement, catastrophes, extremism, higher costs of living and poverty. Folks working in our industry were comparativ...
I was at an “all things data and analytics benchmarking” event last week. It was fabulous, most major banks were represented, also the hottest of hot hedge funds, a chunk of exchanges, and some of not...
What is RAG? Here's the simple 30 second definition, A deeper dive will follow. RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) is the buzziest word on the GenAI internet right now, more jargon to confuse the un...
A certain research agency, one that runs big conferences and captures a ton of CIO mindshare, recently offered guidance on (analyst jargon speak ahead!) a decision framework for assessing and realizin...
I recently wrote a Finextra piece entitled 3 GenAI Use Cases for Capital Markets; The Power of the Vector. In it, I discussed the increasing importance of the so-called vector database and vectors mo...
The goalposts moved in capital markets with the launch of ChatGPT. I'm not the first to say that, and some will say I'm a hype monkey. However, I believe it and events like this don't happen everyday....
Time data is primal. It has always been thus for modern computing, mathematics and, now, artificial intelligence. From the founding grandparents of modern computing and AI – Ada Lovelace’s “analytical...
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 Qua...
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 impo...
Businesses around the world have arrived at a new frontier of data management and analytics. We’re entering the era of super-fast data, where big ideas are fuelled by insights gleaned from time series...
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 inc...