MQTT versus SBE : Fight!

Recently we have completed phase one of a full stack MQTT framework. Client simulator, server, data repository and associated analytics stack.

MSDN : Blast from the past...

Having a clear-out of unused technology items - Blackberry Playbook anyone? And while doing so found this Microsoft MSDN case.

Fintech: Why you need thought leadership, not content-light marketing

Interesting article in The Economist of 27th June 2020 entitled "The New Admen".  One of the insights is 

"...the growing number of firms that only exist on the internet cannot easily cut online ads.  For them, digital advertising is "the new rent", says Mark Shmulik of Bernstein, a research firm. Online retailers save on physical shopfronts but must maintain a visible virtual presence, recession or not."

This is directly appropriate for Fintech firms. How many of them are on a cycle of spending money to win trade show awards, sponsoring conferences and paying for drinks receptions?

Yet surely the better way to market the firm is by publishing useful, actionable research that contributes to a body of knowledge within an industry vertical? Such as:

What's the difference between an EMS and an OMS?

Fixed Income Trading: New venues ( How many Fixed Income trading venues are there? )

Consider that these questions are asked on a daily basis, and answered by this blog.  Then consider: what questions are answered by the marketing material your firm produces? 

If you want some guidance, contact us enquire (at) alignment-systems.com

FIX Orchestra - throwback to 7th July 2017

July 7th 2017 this was posted to YouTube

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Still working on FIX Orchestra, slowly making progress.  If you want to get involved, get in touch...

Portfolio Management Processes: rebalancing index aware funds

When managing an index aware fund* one intellectual challenge is to know how often to rebalance the fund to the index and how to do this.

While working with a greenfield Fixed Income asset management client we established a multi-stage protocol for this process:

Shakti - replacement for kdb+ ? And MQTT

The main (very large) brain behind kdb+, Arthur Whitney, has been working on a new project since January 2019. The firm is called Shakti which is:

"Shakti is designed to manage streaming, in-memory and historical data in any format. Structured data, such as relational or time-series data can co-exist alongside, semi-structured and unstructured data creating a single platform for storage and analytics. Our technology takes advantage of the latest in hardware advancements from multi-core architectures, CPU cache, RAM, SSD and Intel® Optane™ technology all the way to cloud storage.

Policy frameworks for pandemics - part 5 - restarting the economy...

Once the virus is contained, how do we restart the economy?

Policy frameworks for pandemics - part 4 - incidence of costs versus incidence of benefits...

Every day we hear the news about the number of cases of people dying from Coronavirus.  These numbers are shocking and every death is a tragedy.  But not all deaths are equal. 

FIX Training Paris 2020

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FIX Training Johannesburg 2020

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