Financial Services

This article is the first installment in a four part series that talks about the ongoing digital disruption across financial services. This first post sets the stage for the entire market. Subsequent posts…

(Image Credit – rappler.com) The first in this two post series examines Facebook’s corporate philosophy in architecting systems for web scale. Part two will look at their technology stack in more depth.  Last…

(Image Credit – SAS) “Without big data analytics, companies are blind and deaf, wandering out onto the web like deer on a freeway.” – Geoffrey Moore Much has already been…

The first post in this two part series focused on the competitive dynamics in the financial exchange landscape.For established institutions that have huge early mover advantage, the ability to compete with innovative…

A vital cog in the world’s financial industry – financial exchanges have always been an interesting segment within the broader capital markets ecosystem. They primarily serve as a vehicle for household…

(Photo Credit – EconomyDecoded) This article is the final installment in a three part series that talks about the business issues being faced by firms in the Capital Markets space.…

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…

                      Google just announced a few days ago [1] that they are joining the OpenStack foundation as a sponsor member…

“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…