We all know that designing and implementing software code requires time and money, but this is just one side of the coin. As a financial services company, you also need to factor in the costs of maintaining and keeping the service running, especially at times when your operations are decreasing or increasing. That’s why scalable...
There are many brilliant data scientists out there; people who know the financial markets, have deep maths knowledge, and understand what data means for their investment portfolio strategy. But in a world where electronic trading is taking over, the trick isn’t just in being able to read data, but also in collecting and processing it...
What is the job of a systematic manager? In a nutshell, we’d say it’s to develop a successful investment strategy, apply it, manage the regulated entity, raise the assets under management, and sort out the infrastructure of running the business. This is a huge role by any account, but it’s even harder for systematic investment...
Managing costs is an extremely important task for any company, but it is particularly so for financial services SMEs looking to grow. Growth, however, requires numerous steps and tools to be achieved. This includes the right software that can help you deal with ever-increasing data volumes and always-shrinking time to market. Over the past three...
In 1993, international tyre company Pirelli released an advert with the tagline, ‘power is nothing without control’. This rang true across all industries, including the financial services one. In fact, while choosing the right financial software is slightly more complicated than picking out new tyres for your car, the sentiment is the same because without...
As human beings, we are prone to bias against things that we perceive to be bad, or which go against our objectives. This is ingrained in all of us, and affects every area of our lives, including our work. In trading, that can mean the difference between a successful or unsuccessful investment, but there is...
We cross paths with CTOs in our day-to-day work, and most of them always have the same question: How do I build a more efficient process to help me deal with the sheer amount of financial data sources I get my data from? The answer to this question is software that can easily unify financial...
When it comes to investments, the only certainty is change, and you don’t just need to take our word for it. We are writing this during a crypto winter(1), which has seen billionaires lose practically all their assets. It’s also been a year during which equity and bond prices have gone down, but in which...
As traders, our dream is to buy securities at the lowest possible price and sell them at the absolute highest. While that may sound simple enough, the reality is that our job is far more complicated than that. So, when it comes to investment managers and data scientists who need to measure trading efficiency, the...
The financial world is a funny one: while we’ve all grown up hearing the old adage about history repeating itself, investment managers have to remind their clients that past performance is not indicative of future results. The reality is that neither concept is absolute and that the past can offer us an indication, which is...
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