Fintech agile Sales, Marketing, Product Strategy and Devops model

Following on from an interesting conversation, this is an diagram depicting my view of the processes needed for a Fintech to thrive while bringing a product to market. 

Microservices and Daltrey, Townshend and McLaren

Prior to Microservices "being a thing" that spawned countless articles (ok, 1.87m for https://www.google.co.uk/#q=microservices) it was a pretty well understood design pattern.

Harking back to the late 90s a well known sell-side system (hint, think of where the McLaren cars are based) used to be (still is, but cloud deployed) based upon a microservice orientated model where each application module consisted of a number of services based upon a number of patterns:

OMS & FIX - a walled garden?

Interesting story from the trenches…

Excel REST API vs Ethercalc

https://dev.office.com/excel/rest

To-do: experiment!


NB - time for https://ethercalc.net/ to be refreshed??

Golang...

Nothing like running "hello, world"...

Fixed Income Liquidity: Sovereign Wealth funds to the rescue?

We've covered the topic of Fixed Income liquidity at length here before (a list of links follows this post).  We've discussed the possibility of non-bank financial institutions providing liquidity and we have see Virtu and JPMorgan sign an interesting deal 

Investment Banking and Innovation

“If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough.”

― Mario Andretti

4th Annual European Electronic Bond Trading Forum



This will be a great event...

13th September 2016

Jumeirah Carlton Tower Hotel, London

Barcelona Fixed Income Leaders Summit, 9th November 2016

This will be an interesting session, come hear about OMS and EMS. 
Or have a look on google instead

Openfigi+ cURL = ?

Having a look at Bloomberg/OMG OpenFigi again...

Blockchain: After the POC

Blockchain and associated distributed ledger technology is clearly a hot topic right now.   Many firms are engaging in projects to present "proof-of-concept" (POC) of the technologies.  Given the long standing interest of this blog in buy-side OMS, EMS, innovation, disruption, FIX and blockchain it's time for a proposal for the future...

TypeScript versus JavaScript for node.js development?

While developing with JavaScript and node.js I have found various issues with the language and the IDE. A suggestion from a friend has been to investigate the use of TypeScript as a replacement and/or complement to JavaScript. 

Hoisted by one's own petard, or, how not to debug JavaScript within Node.js

Original is from Hamlet...

When looking at a nasty bug in a complex, tangled, callbackhell infested piece of JavaScript within node.js I forgot about hoisting...

OMS: Broken business models

The march of SaaS is pretty relentless in the buy-side enterprise software market but it leaves an unanswered question..

Windows 10: Wireless hotspot problems

I use a wireless tethered mobile phone for connectivity for a Windows 10 laptop. If the tethered, connected phone is moved out of range of the laptop then the WiFi connection drops.