I keynoted at the Deutsche Bourse’s annual IT Open Day yesterday, for the second year running. It’s an interesting event, full of discussions about speeds and feeds, connectivity and interoperability, risk and alpha. Funnily enough, some of the big news of the day is that the markets haven’t moved that far. For example, last year…
The BBC recently reported that Sumo Wrestlers were to be given iPads as it makes them easier to use: “Fat-fingered sumo wrestlers, unable to tap the keys on a standard mobile phone, are being given iPads to help improve communication.” Maybe they should do the same with traders as, at the end of August, the…
The news yesterday that Santander has messed up the conversion of Alliance & Leicester’s core systems to their Partenon platform is really disappointing. It’s disappointing because the bank should by now be well versed in smooth migrations after many mergers and acquisitions, and it’s disappointing because they messed up just as badly when they tried…
Gawd, I hate acronymns and look at that! Three in one blog entry title!!! Anyways, for the nerdy-nerd equities guys, this will grab their attention. It's all to do with trading in European and American stocks and shares using High Frequency Trading (HFT) systems, and the regulations therein with EU MiFID rules applying over here…
Just got a really interesting survey from Deloitte looking at the future of financial services. The document is based upon a survey of 200 industry execs, and garners their views across a broad brush of areas. Interestingly 89% of those surveyed believe their firm survived the crisis as expected or better than expected. I expect…
Yet another blog posting on stats, and this one was inspired by Wikipedia of all places. I was looking for some stats on High Frequency (HFT) and Algorithmic trading, and stumbled across a great range of facts and figures. First, we need to just say that HFT and Algo Trading are different. Algorithmic trading just…
No one could have missed the markets flash drop in May. On 6th May, US markets fell into a trillion dollar freefall. Accenture’s shares fell from $41 at 2:30 that afternoon to just one cent each by 2:47 whilst Apple’s shares soared 40,000 per cent to reach $100,000 each during the same twenty minute period….
At the conference in Santander, I was particularly taken with a presentation by Jorge Yzaguirre from the Bolsas y Mercados Españoles (BME). BME is the Spanish company that deals with all of the organisational aspects of the Spanish stock exchanges and financial markets, as well as providing clearing and settlement and technology consulting in 23…
As usual, some good stuff in Wired Magazine this month. One article stood out for me in particular, which is about the rivalry between Foursquare and Gowalla. I’d heard of Foursquare but not much about Gowallla, and now see the next rise of web usage in more clarity. Both sites are about checking in with…
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