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 …