Capital Markets Technology

Front Office Trading Trends and Technologies...

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A fool with a tool is still a fool

Machine Learning is getting a lot of buzz. I hear questions from our clients as we have successfully implemented it in our trading surveillance tool. We use machine learning to score the likelihood that trading activity is similar to known cases of spoofing, or layering. Did you catch that? We use Machine Learning for a specific business purpose. ...

25 May 2016 /startups

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A Transforming World for Broker Dealers

US Regulators are seeking a “Culture of Compliance” among trading firms. Global regulators are increasing their scrutiny of market manipulation. New regulations are requiring broker dealers to know more about technology use among their clients than ever before. Pre-Trade risk controls are actively being monitored. Capital requirements are growing...

12 April 2016

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Of Broker Dealers, Machine Learning, Capital Utilization, and Profitability

Over the past couple of years I have had the good fortune to discuss the need for improved understand of profitability and capital utilization in broker dealers. Frustrations abound. Discussions on the need to find the right clients to meet the balance sheet utilization mix meander with no clear end in sight. Investment managers are moving their b...

18 March 2016

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Algorithmic Trading, Agile, and Continuous Delivery

The Agile development methodology and Continuous Delivery has delivered on many promises. We have all seen Faster development cycles Faster IT reaction times Better prioritization of business objectives Easier balancing of technical and business objectives Regulations New regulations, for example the Regulation Algorithmic Trading by the CFTC, h...

17 February 2016 /regulation

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FINTECH from Chicago

FINTECH, market exchange access, electronic trading, pre-trade risk controls, and compliance especially related to the Futures & Options Markets

12 February 2016 /regulation

Ed Daniel Senior Consultant, getting old you know ;-) at esdaniel.com

A Grid too far?

It's quite something isn't it - grid technology - the concept of a super computer at your disposal, able to provide high performance computing resources to your entire IT estate. However, rather than hark on about latency and proximity concerns that also challenge grid deployments many IT managers are discovering there is the spectre of significan...

05 October 2007

Ed Daniel Senior Consultant, getting old you know ;-) at esdaniel.com

Enterprise code management innovations

Noting Chris has been posting on innovation & techie musings at his blog I thought as a change from strategic debate one might observe some tactics that are going on and share these with you... I just got finished reading an article on a company that has inspired this post. Krugle has built a product delivering a service using open source t...

28 September 2007

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The Dealing Room of the Future?

Interested in peoples thoughts on this topic - how will the typical trading desk be look in the next 5-15 years? Some themes to start the ball rolling... Will traders (in the human sense) be actually involved or will they finally have been replaced by a rack of servers? To me this is a real possibility on some flow desks.What about the physical i...

08 June 2007

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The Hunt for Speed

I was recently at the Dealing With Technology (DWT) conference in London, in fact I had the enviable (or unenviable should I say after standing for seven hours straight!) task of manning our companies stand for the day, never hurts to get closer to the customer I thought. One of the key themes of the event, looking around the exhibitors and the se...

23 May 2007