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Andrew Miller

Managing Director at Net Effect Ltd

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Bio An experienced board level leader, strategist, influencer and coach, providing 'whole business' consulting from conception to realisation in the arena of real-time financial market data, trading software and network technology. Focusing on best practice, pragmatic quality processes and the human a Career History CEO Arcontech plc (market data and trading systems) Founder and Director Arcontech pte (Singapore) Director Cognita Director KTS Solutions Ltd MD Arcontech Ltd Founder Net Effect Ltd Head of Systems Thomson Financial IFR CASE, IDEC, British Aerospace

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JPMorgan introduces mandatory coding courses

David's point on inventory and change control is spot-on. If only more banks had a handle on their exposure in this area. There's much talk but little action re Basel's concern over EUC risk, while there are firms out there with great tools to help construct not only the application inventory but also the data paths between the applications. The financial sense, if only in reduction of the capital adequacy haircut seems obvious.

10 Oct 2018 Reply Read article

JPMorgan introduces mandatory coding courses

An interesting approach, quite the reverse of the classic (but seldom adequately actioned) ploy of teaching coders to understand the business. I sure JPM isn't guilty, but how many man hours (years?) have been wasted trying to untangle systems created with no quality or change control by various business experts who 'dabbled' with complex cross-linked spreadsheets and access databases. A little knowledge can be a dangerous thing?

09 Oct 2018 Reply Read article

Blockchain is an enabler, not a disruptor

So good to see the word "enabler", a positive thing, rather than "disruptor", generally perceived as negative. In these times where collaboration is almost essential, disruption sets the wrong tone. The purpose of innovation is at least one (or all) of three things: (1) reduce cost of the basics; (2) force basic suppliers up the value chain; (3) enable stuff that's not been possible before. These are only disruptive if incumbents fail to act on these points.

15 Oct 2016 Reply Read article

Xignite raises $20.5m

I think this is an interesting and promising move. A suitable cloud infrastructure and well-defined APIs that allow integration with incumbant and alternative platforms (including contributions and, hopefully, peer-to-peer sharing) could do well as a global initiative.

08 Feb 2016 Reply Read article