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Ivy Schmerken Editorial Director at FlexTrade Systems
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...
01 March 2018 /ai
Patrick Chambeau Director of Marketing at IPC
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...
17 January 2018
Vishwanath Thanalapatti Analytics at Temenos
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...
16 January 2018 /ai
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...
19 December 2017 /regulation
Brian Collings CEO at Torstone Technology Ltd
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...
14 December 2017 /regulation
Ben Marsh CEO at iMeta Technologies
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...
24 November 2017
Retired Member
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 ...
21 November 2017 /wholesale
Richard Miller Product Owner at RegDefy (MV37)
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 ...
23 October 2017 /ai
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...
17 October 2017 /ai
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...
26 July 2017 /regulation
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