It is, perhaps, the biggest catch that comes with all financial software, but you’ll need to maintain it if you wish to ensure it always runs at optimum efficiency… Now, you may choose to do all that development and maintenance in-house, though that is often pricier than paying a licence fee for an enterprise solution....
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...
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...
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...
In life, we all look to the past as an indicative measure of the future. The same can be said for investments, where many financial managers conduct backtests to use past events to gain experience and make better choices in the future. But then, why does every investment sheet contain the same words of warning:...
For a solution to be truly worth its salt, it must be holistic in its benefits and approach. If we take something as simple and as crucial as reading glasses, they wouldn’t be of much use if they weren’t comfortable to wear, designed to go unnoticed by the reader, and small enough to be carried...
Last week, we explored how our collaboration with TIBCO™ has allowed us to create faster financial software development, with a turn-around time that’s at least 50% quicker. As we explained, this is down to several key factors, including that TIBCO™ has turned complex code into components that can be easily moved around to create an...
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