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Ivy Schmerken

Ivy Schmerken Editorial Director at FlexTrade Systems

Artificial Intelligence Gains Momentum: From Machine Learning to Deep Learning

Artificial intelligence has quickly evolved from science fiction to digital assistants such as Alexa and Siri learning about our daily lives. A.I. applications are interpreting MRIs and will soon be operating self-driving cars. In personal finance, many of us interact with chat boxes on bank web sites. And in the investing world, robo-advisors ar...

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Patrick Chambeau

Patrick Chambeau Director of Marketing at IPC

How Capital Markets Infrastructure Providers are transforming the industry

Over the last 10 years, I have seen significant changes in global capital markets. Faced with technological disruption and regulatory forces, buy-side and sell-side participants, custodians, and market infrastructure and financial technology providers have all been forced to readdress their business strategies. With this in mind, I wanted to share...

Vishwanath Thanalapatti

Vishwanath Thanalapatti Analytics at Temenos

Quo Vadis? Artificial Intelligence

In recent times the terms 'Artificial Intelligence' (AI), 'Machine Learning' (ML), 'Deep Learning' (DL) has gained much currency and established itself firmly in the context of 'Big Data' and 'Analytics'. Primarily these are software programs that analyse information and make decisions. Collectively let us call it the 'Brain'. That is how these ar...

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Ivy Schmerken

Ivy Schmerken Editorial Director at FlexTrade Systems

Wrestling with OMS and EMS Decisions

Many asset managers are wrestling with the decision on whether to keep the order management system (OMS) and execution management system (EMS) as two separate best-of-breed systems, or switch to a single unified platform known as the OEMS. Buy-side firms have been demanding tighter integration between their order management and execution management...

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Brian Collings

Brian Collings CEO at Torstone Technology Ltd

GDPR: Next stop in the 2018 compliance race

For those who believe that “go-live” is merely the beginning of the end of the compliance journey, next year will mark yet another milestone for major regulatory implementation. 2018 starts with the long-anticipated go-live of the revised Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II) on 3 January, followed four months later on 25 May, by t...

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Ben Marsh

Ben Marsh CEO at iMeta Technologies

Configurable CLM; Consider Yourself One of Us

As we noted in our recent ‘Brexit’ blog, the need for managing cross-border complexity in the Client On-boarding and Lifecycle management domain now, more than ever, requires software that can provide flexible workflow and readily configurable rules. In case we have been distracted by the present focus on Brexit in recent months, let’s not forget...

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Retired Member 

Can you cut it? Costs that is

Nobody ever said it would be easy 2017 has seen the rules change, the financial services sector will never be the same again. Competition is rife, regulation is overwhelming, and customer attitudes are fickle, emerging technologies are now presenting incredible opportunities and if you’re willing to step outside your comfort zone then the benefits ...

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Richard Miller

Richard Miller Product Owner at RegDefy (MV37)

Has the new technology boat sailed and left you behind?

A very large number of articles on technology at the moment begin by saying, “[x] technology is one of the industry’s hottest topics right now” or “changes in [y] technology are accelerating ever faster”. This is as a result of living through a ‘technology purple patch’ where there is a step change not only in what the technology can do, but also ...

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Richard Miller

Richard Miller Product Owner at RegDefy (MV37)

Applying some intelligence to Artificial Intelligence

Navigating the turbulent waters of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) can seem like a daunting task to the uninitiated. In fact even the question of how AI relates to ML is answered differently depending on who you ask, as evidenced by the numerous articles about on these topics. In this area, confusion abounds – for example wi...

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Panama Papers and Ultimate Beneficial Ownership: One Year On

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...

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