Big Data

This article is the first in a 3 part series that talks about the business issues faced by large trading desks in Capital Markets space and the agile architectures that…

I hadn’t originally planned on writing this post but couldn’t resist as it is at the confluence of two passions of mine – information technology and the financial markets. For those…

“You better start swimming, or you’ll sink like a stone. Because the Time’s they are a-changing.” – Bob Dylan (from the song) I have long been an advocate of enterprise organizations giving…

One of the questions I get a lot from clients is “We do not have massive sizes of data to justify incorporating Hadoop into our legacy business application(s) or application…

Risk management is not just a defensive business imperative but the best managed banks deploy their capital to obtain the best possible business outcomes. The last few posts have more…

The previous post makes it clear that the series of market events that led to the Great Financial Crisis of 2008 was as a result of poor Risk Management practices in…

It is widely recognized that the series of market events that led to the Great Financial Crisis of 2008 was as a result of poor risk management practices in the banking system.…

“Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.” – John F. Kennedy A relatively new term that has entered the lexicon of modern IT is Web-scale systems.…

“The lesson is, we all need to expose ourselves to the winds of change.” – Andy Grove  “Information is the oil of the 21st century, and analytics is the combustion…

The term ‘Data In Motion’ is widely used to represent the speed at which large volumes of data are moving into corporate applications in a broad range of industries. Big…