Resources

Numerix and Hyper Rig Publish White Paper on the Framework for Real –Time Risk Aggregation Study outlines how to get the information required to understand risks and opportunities in a format and timeframe that enables effective decision making. New York, NY and London, UK, March 14, 2011 – Numerix, the leading provider of cross-asset... read more

A comprehensive platform for derivatives & structured products—Numerix helps institutions keep pace with today’s rapid changes in regulatory requirements and financial innovation, providing best-of-breed analytics for managing a wide range of OTC instruments. With Numerix’s transparent deal-definition framework and modeling capabilities,... read more

By Wil Cunningham, head of WilPower IT Consulting. An ex-RBS senior IT manager and now a contractor with Lloyds Banking Group and other banks. Wil Cunningham, an independent technology consultant who oversaw RBS’s Data Centre Optimisation (EDCO) programme  in Scotland and has spent the last two years as a senior contractor... read more

Performance Tester empowers T24 testers to automatically execute virtual load tests, to validate capacity and response times reducing testing resources by 80%. It improves response times, application availability and overall reliability of T24 projects. It is fully integrated with Functional and Regression Testing, which means the test cases... read more

By David Flower, VP EMEA, Compuware Gomez The American Bankers Association conducted research last summer to establish how people in the US like to do their banking. It discovered that 62 per cent of US adults see online banking as their preferred banking method, compared to 36 per cent in 2010.The findings emphasise the growing importance... read more

By Marc Alvarez, senior director for reference data infrastructure, Interactive Data It’s a phrase that’s been hard to avoid over the last year: ‘big data’. But what exactly does it mean? Big data describes a phenomenon that is becoming increasingly difficult for firms across a wide range of industries to manage. In... read more

By Fabian Samaniego, a senior consultant to TCS Financial Solutions and ex-COO of HSBC Brokerage and managing director of global operations at ICM Capital Markets (additional contributors: Danny Garcia and Gary Schwartzberg) The current post-crash landscape in the financial services industry is driving broker-dealers to evolve at a much... read more

This technical paper details the optimal analytics platform architecture needed to support today’s derivatives markets. Historically trade details and modelling techniques were often combined however today’s increasingly sophisticated analytics demand a different approach. By separating what is being valued from how it is being valued, a... read more

The inaugural Mobey Day, organised by the bank-led Mobey Forum industry association, which also includes handset manufacturers, vendors and others, was held at CosmoCaixa in Barcelona on 21 March where more than 250 senior level technologists and industry players attempted to map out the future of mobile financial services. Ron van Wezel,... read more

The majority of banking will eventually be done on the mobile channel, believes David Urbano director of mobile and social media, at La Caixa bank in Spain, and the shift is already underway he told Neil Ainger at the recent Mobey Day event in Barcelona on 21 March at CosmoCaxia. The day when we see the majority of banking being done on the... read more