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...
by Ian Green | Aug 26, 2014 | Blog |
I’m returning from a great week’s vacation in Skye and someone commented to me that I’m now “back to the rat race”. Even in the previous jobs that I enjoyed most, the first day back to work following a return from holiday usually felt...
