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Mark Badyra CEO at Appital
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...
08 October 2020 /startups /markets
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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...
27 August 2020 /security /cloud
Ivy Schmerken Editorial Director at FlexTrade Systems
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...
21 August 2020 /regulation /markets
Simon Barnby CMO at Archax
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...
20 August 2020 /crypto /markets
Matthew Ruoss CEO at Scorpeo UK
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...
05 August 2020 /regulation /wealth
Gary Linieres CEO & Co-founder at Wealth Dynamix
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...
30 July 2020 /wealth /covid-19
Ben Grant Commercial Director at Aronova
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 ...
22 July 2020 /markets
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...
21 July 2020 /markets /covid-19
Yassamin Issapour CFO & Co-Founder at agora Digital Capital Markets (DDCM Ltd)
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...
10 June 2020 /startups /covid-19
Joris Lochy Product Manager at Intix | Co-founder at Capilever
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...
09 June 2020 /wealth /retail
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