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Brian Sentance - Xenomorph - London | 18/11/2010 | 2211 views

People, Payments and Cars in the US of A

I have had a busy summer as having moved to the New York area with my family. Whilst we had to do a lot of preparation with going to the US embassy etc for visas, the move finally became "real" for me when all of the furniture in our house was removed for shipping to the US, and we ended up effectively camping in our own home for a few weeks. The d... Tags: Payments, Risk & regulationGroup: Data Management 101

Brian Sentance - Xenomorph - London | 04/06/2010 | 1997 views

A Crisis Needs a Utility?

I heard Francis Gross of the ECB speak at one of the panel events at the XTrakter Conference last week, and found that I couldn't avoid asking him whether the aims of the "Data Utility" initiative by the ECB could be better separated from the means by which the ECB proposes to solve them. At the moment, reference data issues for the industry and th... Tags: Risk & regulation, Wholesale bankingGroup: Data Management 101

Brian Sentance - Xenomorph - London | 08/12/2009 | 4942 views

The Failure of Risk Models

Avinash Persaud of Intelligence Capital gave the opening talk of the morning at RiskMinds (see first of set of posts from last year here) and put forward a lot of the very good ideas that he has contributed to in the recent Warwick Commission Report. Main points that Avinash made: Regulators were admirably quick in working out where past regulat... Tags: Risk & regulation, Wholesale bankingGroup: Data Management 101

Brian Sentance - Xenomorph - London | 05/12/2009 | 4649 views

Maths to Money - Quantitative Investment

I attended the Quant Invest 2009 event for the first time last week in Paris. The event is all about quantitative investment strategies with an institutional asset manager and hedge fund focus - so not so much about ultra-high frequency trading (although some present) but more about using quantitative techniques to manage investment decisions and a... Tags: Risk & regulation, Wholesale bankingGroup: Innovation in Financial Services

Brian Sentance - Xenomorph - London | 13/11/2009 | 3183 views

It's in the news...

I went along to the Forum on News Analytics over in Canary Wharf on Monday evening, organised by Professor Gautam Mitra from OptiRisk / Carisma at Brunel University. I guess we are in the early days of transforming news articles into quantifiable/machine-readable data so that it can be processed automatically/systematically in trading and risk mana... Tags: Dealing rooms, Risk & regulationGroup: Data Management 101