by Ian Green | Nov 5, 2018 | Blog |
It is generally wise to follow the principle of parsimony in development: do the least amount of new coding that you can without sacrificing competitive capability. In recent years the scope for parsimony has extended well beyond code reuse to the adoption of...
by Ian Green | May 2, 2017 | Blog |
There is a school of thought that wholesale and investment banking is immune to true disruption by financial technology – that the protective complexity of these businesses will give the incumbents time to assimilate new technologies. In a recent report, for example,...
by Ian Green | Mar 21, 2017 | Blog |
Staff turnover, regulation among five factors holding banks back Over the past decade the software industry has been revolutionised by a set of new technologies. They keep close company – where you find one you’ll often find several – and the firms that have played...
by Ian Green | Jan 27, 2016 | Blog |
When a “tech issue” becomes a management catastrophe Amidst all of the change and turbulence in the years since the financial crisis, one constant trend has been a continuing rise in the proportion of trades that are conducted electronically. This brings many...
by Gavin Warren | Feb 17, 2015 | Blog |
I’m eCo’s Chief Technology Officer. One of the reasons I do the job that I do is that I’m passionately interested in technology. I’ve always been particularly interested in parallel computing, since the days of the Transputer, so GPU...
by Ian Green | Nov 10, 2014 | Blog |
My first task at the first job I took in investment banking technology was to read a paper describing a new model for interest rates (Heath Jarrow Morton) and mine it for use in swaption pricing software. It was illustrative of the state of the art at the time: take...
