Financial Services

With each passing year, vertical industries seem to be discovering an increasing number of areas where Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) powered applications are delivering outstanding business value. These applications can…

The Buy Side is perhaps the biggest segment of Wall St & the financial markets – there are roughly 7,000+ mutual funds, thousands of hedge funds which invest across 40,000…

In 2018 we are rapidly entering what I would like to call ‘Big Data 3.0’. This is the age of ‘Converged Big Data’ where its various complementary technologies – Data…

Over the last three years, we have examined a succession of business issues in the various sectors of financial services on this blog. These have ranged from the mundane (Trading,…

After a decade of focusing on compliance with regulatory mandates, Banks are back at fixating on technology innovation. The reason is obvious – over the last five years, Silicon Valley majors…

The Global Payments Industry in 2018… In 2017, the Payments industry largely kept its promise of leading financial services – http://www.vamsitalkstech.com/?p=3425. This evidenced in two important categories – consumer adoption and…

“There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don’t know. But…

“We live in a world awash with data. Data is proliferating at an astonishing rate—we have more and more data all the time, and much of it was collected in order to improve decisions about some aspect…

This is the third in a series of blogs on Data Science that I am jointly authoring with Maleeha Qazi, (https://www.linkedin.com/in/maleehaqazi/). We have previously covered some of the inefficiencies that…

This blog has from time to time discussed issues around the defensive portion of financial services industry  (Banking, Payment Processing, and Insurance etc). Anti Money Laundering (AML) is a critical…