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Mark Badyra

Mark Badyra CEO at Appital

How to access a rebound market of small and mid-cap stocks

Small and mid-cap companies are due for a rebound, according to Barclays who screened nearly 400 of its small- and mid-cap stocks in late July. Even though small and mid-cap companies with typically weaker credit profiles have generally taken a harder hit by the Covid pandemic, the bank nonetheless found a number of high-conviction names with imp...

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What does a successful enterprise cloud solution look like?

Ten years ago, when cloud-native apps started appearing, the on-prem versus cloud discussion was a legitimate debate. Now, the new question is: which cloud technology will best serve the purposes of your business? How can enterprises hedge the risk of becoming dependent on one cloud provider? The cloud journey so far A decade ago when cloud techno...

/security /cloud

Ivy Schmerken

Ivy Schmerken Editorial Director at FlexTrade Systems

The Buy Side's Hunt for Bond Liquidity

Fixed-income traders reflecting on the bond liquidity crisis and volatile markets caused by the global pandemic in March and April are pushing ahead with more automation to solve the liquidity and data-quality issues they faced. Citing the value of aggregation tools to bring in direct pricing streams, portfolio trading, and all-to-all trading proto...

/regulation /markets

Simon Barnby

Simon Barnby CMO at Archax

Disrupting Financial Markets 1 - The Issuer

There has and continues to be much talk around digital securities or security tokens, which are securities represented digitally on a blockchain. Many advantages are talked about on how they will disrupt financial services and democratise capital markets for everyone. But to what extent are the advantages down to the technology, a renewed way of t...

/crypto /markets

Matthew Ruoss

Matthew Ruoss CEO at Scorpeo UK

For asset managers, good stewardship is good business

ESG screens are common among asset managers today, in response to growing client demand for investments that align with their values. Much of the buzz has focused on the ‘E’ and ‘S’ of ESG, as managers dumping fossil fuels and other ‘vice’ stocks have grabbed headlines. And while early studies are pointing towards the potential outperformance of ES...

/regulation /wealth

Gary Linieres

Gary Linieres CEO & Co-founder at Wealth Dynamix

Beyond onboarding: pitfalls and potential during a pandemic

Coming into 2020, many wealth management firms were beginning to realise that their continued focus on the digital transformation of onboarding, at the expense of other wraparound processes, was putting their business at risk. In January we released an e-book my colleague spoke to them about the need to see client lifecycle management (CLM) for wh...

/wealth /covid-19

Ben Grant

Ben Grant Commercial Director at Aronova

Increasing the profitability of working capital programmes

Improvements in working capital management will enable all organisations to create value and enhance the way they operate. According to PWC, there is €1.2tr of excess working capital tied up on balance sheets. Those who release the blockages which hide this capital will be able to boost growth and create more potential for investment. Evaluating ...

/markets

Ivy Schmerken

Ivy Schmerken Editorial Director at FlexTrade Systems

AI and Machine Learning Gain Momentum with Algo Trading & ATS Amid Volatility

An increasing number of capital markets firms are adopting machine learning and other artificial intelligence techniques to build algorithmic trading systems that learn from data without relying on rules-based systems. With the hiring of data scientists, advances in cloud computing, and access to open source frameworks for training machine learni...

/markets /covid-19

Yassamin Issapour

Yassamin Issapour CFO & Co-Founder at agora Digital Capital Markets (DDCM Ltd)

Distributed Ledger Technology x Capital Markets - an Unbeatable Combination for Success

When non-tech people think of blockchain, they don’t think of traditional asset classes, they think of cryptocurrencies or other B2C products. That is a mistake; core distributed ledger technology (“DLT”) is now an integral part of the technical development and improvement to client service in the finance industry and B2B space. JP Morgan’s 2019 r...

/startups /covid-19

Joris Lochy

Joris Lochy Product Manager at Intix | Co-founder at Capilever

A demographic shift changing the financial landscape forever

The Baby Boomer generation (i.e. the generation born between 1946 and 1964 - so between 55-75 years old) is retiring in record numbers. In the US alone, about 10.000 baby boomers will retire every day. Such an enormous retirement wave will have enormous impacts on the economy: An enormous amount of jobs will need to be replaced, resulting in a va...

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