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The Realization Group wrote a new blog post titled Raising the Bar: Responding to the RegTech data management challenge
Banks and brokers might feel they are being pushed and pulled in different directions by multiple post-crisis regulatory reforms, but a common requirement across the new rules is for more detailed and timely data of known quality and provenance. To meet regulators’ expectations, banks must store, access, and process data on a scale never previously anticipated. As such, their technology executives are re-examining their operating infrastructures to ensure they have the storage and compute capabilities to operate effectively in the new, but still emerging, environment, looking not only...
8 days ago,(2017/09/11)
The Realization Group wrote a new blog post titled For trading infrastructure, the buy-build question increasingly favours buy
In this article, Mike O’Hara and Adam Cox of The Realization Group look at the trend of financial firms – on both the sell side and the buy side – outsourcing their trading infrastructure to specialist providers at co-located data centres. The prospect of outsourcing such a vital part of a trading firm’s operations has enormous implications, from cost to performance to business models. Mike and Adam hear from Stéphane Tyč, Co-founder of McKay Brothers, Ken Barnes, Senior Vice President of Options Technology and Bill Fenick, Strategy and Marketing Director at...
8 days ago,(2017/09/11)
The Realization Group wrote a new blog post titled Smarter Operations: Why Middle Office needs to become the New Front Office
In this article, Mike O’Hara and Adam Cox of The Realization Group look at the future of middle-office systems for banks and trading firms. Many of these companies are now relying on hodgepodge solutions, systems that essentially rest upon legacy technology and have been in need of modernisation for years. It’s hardly an optimum state of affairs and the impact can be enormous. To give a simple example: If a firm needs to overcompensate because its overnight collateral calculations may be ever so slightly off, it can result in millions of dollars’ worth of extra collateral...
8 days ago,(2017/09/11)
The Realization Group wrote a new blog post titled Roundtable Report - FX Flows to the East
Future growth in foreign exchange is widely expected to come from Asia rather than traditional western hubs. Financial Institutions and infrastructure providers need to make sure they are ready.
Magnetic fields cannot be seen by the human eye, but they create complex, powerful forces that can pull large materials together and push others apart with equal strength. Similar forces are at work in the foreign exchange market, where a range of factors appear to be drawing increased trading to eastern hubs such as Hong Kong, Singapore and Shanghai.
Speaking at an executive discussion in London on...
39 days ago,(2017/08/11)
The Realization Group uploaded a media item titled Testing - Sasha McDonald
75 days ago,(2017/07/06)
The Realization Group wrote a new blog post titled Software Testing in Financial Services – is the price of success paid for in advance?
In this paper, Mike O’Hara and Dan Barnes of The Realization Group investigate the trends and dynamics that are reframing the way that testing is viewed and managed within financial services, in conversation with Sascha McDonald, Founding Director of CloudLoad.io; Graham Perry, Manager for the UK & Ireland at Neotys; Rob Jacobs, Director of Engineering Operations at Worldpay; Matt Roberts, Lead Consultant at Cake Solutions; and Darren Stocks, Head of Testing & Quality Assurance at change management consultancy Certeco.
Introduction
Banks are advocating earlier...
75 days ago,(2017/07/06)
The Realization Group wrote a new blog post titled Naturally Intelligent: Embedding operational AI in financial services
How to make artificial intelligence work in a live environment
In this paper, Dan Barnes and Mike O’Hara of The Realization Group investigate the real-world applications of AI within financial business today, taking use cases from experts in the field and exploring the choices firms need to face in order to overcome hurdles in implementation. Speaking with Rael Cline of MediaGamma, Jonty Field at Quantitative Brokers, Chuck Ocheret at NEX Optimisation, Massimi Morini at Banca IMI Intesa San Paolo and Software AG’s Michael Zeller and Charles Platt, we have built a picture...
102 days ago,(2017/06/09)
The Realization Group uploaded a media item titled Powering Up - Lewis Tucker
112 days ago,(2017/05/30)
The Realization Group uploaded a media item titled Powering Up - Leon Lobo
112 days ago,(2017/05/30)
The Realization Group uploaded a media item titled Powering Up - Robin Mess
112 days ago,(2017/05/30)
