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A Brief (and highly simplified) History of Banking Data – Financial Services organizations are unique in their possessing the most diverse set of data for any industry vertical. Corporate IT organizations …

“Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.” — Goethe It is that time of the year again when the mavens at Gartner …

This article is the final installment in a two part series that covers one of the most critical issues facing the financial industry – Investor & Market Integrity Protection via Global Market Surveillance. While …

(Image Credit – Larry Putterman) “What Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook’s CEO) worries about the most is the lack of change, the lack of innovation, becoming the innovator’s dilemma company that gets …

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 …

Previous posts in this blog have commented on the financial services industry as increasingly undergoing a gradual makeover if not outright transformation – both from a business and IT perspective. …

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 …

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. …