136 Results from 2021, /markets
Chris Jenkins Managing Director at TORA
According to a recent study from Greenwich Associates, around one third of US buy-side firms are now actively looking to outsource some or all of their front office trade execution activities to third parties. Outsourced trading has also become increasingly attractive to the buy side, and it’s not just smaller or start-up funds who are moving towa...
14 June 2021 /markets
Dmitry Dolgorukov CEO at GiniMachine
The previous year was one of great uncertainty. It exposed the vulnerabilities in society and fundamentally changed the way people did business. With many face-to-face services closed, the finance industry was driven to find innovative ways to connect with customers. The path ahead is full of challenges and opportunities. Let’s look at what this m...
10 June 2021 /markets /predictions Trends in Financial Services
Retired Member
Part 1 of this blog series looked at some of the top challenges that firms face to platform modernisation. This blog focuses on some of the disruptive technologies simplifying and accelerating the modernisation journey and a game-changing approach that is enabling firms to transform their technology stack one small step at a time. Shaping Modernis...
09 June 2021 /devops /markets Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
After nearly five years of experimentation, blockchain has reached an important milestone in financial services. This year, several distributed ledger technology platforms are either running live or preparing to launch. As the industry starts to transition from its initial stage of research and development to this new phase of operations and growt...
07 June 2021 /regulation /markets Fintech
Dmytro Spilka Director and Founder at Solvid, Coinprompter
It’s been a transformative year for fintech. As the COVID-19 pandemic has forced global payments to become increasingly digital, we’ve seen more companies within the industry generate highly successful years. This has led to something of a fintech IPO surge in recent months. Now, it’s the turn of Marqeta to launch an initial public offering ahea...
06 June 2021 /markets
I’ve worked with many different firms – banks and vendors on their platform modernisation journeys and have discovered that there are a number of common themes across the financial services industry in terms of the challenges they face, the technologies they use to modernise their IT systems and what the recipe for success looks like. I often get ...
04 June 2021 /devops /markets Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
Gregoire Haftman Global Head of Data Sales at Macrobond
“There is so much data out there, but I spend more time on reconciling, verifying and mapping it, rather than actually analysing it to enrich my decision-making process.” Sound familiar? Then you’re not alone. It’s one of the most common complaints I hear when I speak to customers. According to MongoDB, a leading cloud-based database software provi...
03 June 2021 /cloud /markets Data Management and Governance
Machine learning cab be used to design and understand problem and trying to derive solution using data. Being working as FinTech professional, I am seeing the change happening. I have extensively worked in Market Risk. As per definition, Market Risk is the risk of loss due to factors that affect an entire market or asset class. Market risk is also ...
02 June 2021 /regulation /markets Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services
Simon Gegen Financial cloud services and wallet solutions at Holla-Tech
Spread betting is a form of foreign exchange trading that involves speculating on changes in the movements of currencies without actually trading them. There are three main components to a spread betting strategy, which are the direction you expect the trade to move in, the size of your bet, and the spread of whatever you're speculating on. Th
02 June 2021 /wealth /markets Personal Finance
2021 has been a challenging year for the development of new technologies. Still operating in the shadows of the COVID-19 pandemic, any initial optimism for the development and launch of AR-enabled smart glasses by the end of the year has been quashed by experts - but despite this, AR-glasses specialists Vuzix has been gaining significant momentum ...
30 May 2021 /markets
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