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Front Office Trading Trends and Technologies...
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...
When the world last confronted a global crisis, it's fair to say that banks were at the center of the problem. This time around, the industry is doing all it can to form a big part of the solution. An...
Around this time last week, one of the main global-oil-price benchmarks, the West Texas Intermediate (WTI) exchange-traded future, traded below zero as the contract for May settlement approached expir...
The wealth management sector is facing unprecedented challenges due to the outbreak of the global pandemic. As the coronavirus spreads, wealth managers’ business continuity plans need to include more ...
As restrictions on working from anywhere but home tighten trading operations are moving at different operational speeds with varying degrees of success. It was a very quick transition from office, to...
With on-demand services and faster decisions, digital lending platforms are changing the face of commercial lending. But digital approaches differ – and as banks transform their operations to keep up ...
The March Tiobe Index is out. I follow Java (1, up short term), Python (3, continual rise), R (11, steady mid-term) MATLAB (15, down mid-term), SAS (21, steady-ish) and Julia (49, wildly down?) as my ...
With the proliferation of algorithms in currency markets and regulatory pressure to prove best execution, buy-side trading desks are adopting algorithms to source liquidity and lower trading costs in ...
With mountains of market data, historical prices, and transactions data stored in disparate systems, securities and investment firms are shifting from a focus on collecting data to extracting value fr...
Financial firms are increasingly leveraging digital technologies such as artificial intelligence, cloud and intelligent automation to hyper-personalize wealth management offerings. Our numerous intera...
Change is brewing in the way that sell-side order routing data is reported to institutional customers. Broker-dealers will begin collecting vast amounts of data on January 1st for compliance with the ...
Background With the European Union’s Securities Financing Transaction Regulation (SFTR) countdown clock ticking, the industry is awaiting the official publication by International Organization for Sta...