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Intelligent Trading Summit (ITS) London, February 2nd 2017, Hilton Tower Bridge

on December 24, 2016

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Australia Super funds OMS EMS

on December 24, 2016

Australia Buy-Side OMS EMS OEMS vendor management

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SQL Server on Linux

on November 24, 2016

Linux Microsoft SQL

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FX Trading: New venues

on November 22, 2016

fx forward fx spot fx swap https://twitter.com/AlignmentSys NDF trading

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Bloomberg, again

on November 20, 2016

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OMS and EMS: Next moves?

on November 15, 2016

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Orchestra - the full-stop at the end of FIX...

on October 18, 2016

FIX FIX Orchestra FIX Testing and Certification FIXP management Strategy vendor management

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FIX, FIX Engines and RHCP

on October 18, 2016

FIX FIXP management marketing Strategy

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Fintech agile Sales, Marketing, Product Strategy and Devops model

on August 22, 2016

DevOps FinTech innovation management marketing Strategy

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Microservices and Daltrey, Townshend and McLaren

on August 16, 2016

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OMS & FIX - a walled garden?

on August 14, 2016

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Excel REST API vs Ethercalc

on August 08, 2016

Excel Excel Industrialisation Microsoft

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Golang...

on August 08, 2016

blockchain buy vs build FIXChain geek Golang https://github.com/AlignmentSystems

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Fixed Income Liquidity: Sovereign Wealth funds to the rescue?

on August 08, 2016

bonds buy vs build innovation liquidity sell-side trading

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Investment Banking and Innovation

on August 08, 2016

Agile buy vs build digital FinTech innovation Strategy

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4th Annual European Electronic Bond Trading Forum

on August 03, 2016

Activity Based Costing bonds conferences liquidity Market data trading

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Barcelona Fixed Income Leaders Summit, 9th November 2016

on August 02, 2016

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Openfigi+ cURL = ?

on July 24, 2016

Bloomberg disruption FinTech https://github.com/AlignmentSystems https://twitter.com/AlignmentSys Symbology

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Blockchain: After the POC

on July 08, 2016

blockchain buy vs build Buy-Side OMS disruption EMS FIX FIXChain FIXP innovation

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TypeScript versus JavaScript for node.js development?

on July 05, 2016

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

on July 04, 2016

Doing IT right JavaScript node.js Technical Debt

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OMS: Broken business models

on June 29, 2016

Activity Based Costing buy vs build Buy-Side OMS Doing IT right https://twitter.com/AlignmentSys Technical Debt vendor management

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Windows 10: Wireless hotspot problems

on June 27, 2016

geek https://github.com/AlignmentSystems https://twitter.com/AlignmentSys Microsoft

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SQL Server 2016 + R

on June 24, 2016

Buy-Side Analytics quant R SQL

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Thomson Reuters, Redi, CRD and TradingScreen

on June 18, 2016

Bloomberg buy vs build Buy-Side OMS EMS Strategy thomsonreuters

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Maximum effort, minimum code

on June 17, 2016

buy vs build DevOps Doing IT right https://github.com/AlignmentSystems https://twitter.com/AlignmentSys

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MIFID2: Is MIFID2 the new Y2K?

on June 13, 2016

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Investment Banking: Digital Transformation

on June 13, 2016

buy vs build digital disruption https://github.com/AlignmentSystems https://twitter.com/AlignmentSys sell-side Strategy trading

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Node.js: Which IDE?

on May 29, 2016

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OMS: Managing Drift

on May 29, 2016

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Node.js: Logging

on May 28, 2016

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Blockchain: Voting

on May 08, 2016

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EMS: Staging is not an EMS

on May 08, 2016

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OMS and EMS: market update

on May 06, 2016

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EMS: Consolidation?

on May 02, 2016

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https://twitter.com/AlignmentSys

on May 02, 2016

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Starting MongoDB with Powershell and a UTC timestamp dated log file

on May 01, 2016

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MIFID 2, Timestamps and Rudyard Kipling

on April 30, 2016

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Marshmallow on Blackberry PRIV

on April 26, 2016

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What project risk for a tick-data project?

on April 20, 2016

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kdb+ versus MongoDB versus McObject versus OneTick versus...

on April 17, 2016

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Investment Banks and Robocop

on April 03, 2016

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Australia Bond Trading: Westpac and ANZ on Tradeweb

on March 26, 2016

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Banks and Car companies

on February 13, 2016

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Microsoft R Open and Microsoft R Server

on January 30, 2016

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Kill Switch

on January 20, 2016

compliance EMS exchange trading https://twitter.com/AlignmentSys https://www.linkedin.com/company/alignment-systems management risk trading

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Blackberry Bold 9900 to Blackberry PRIV migration

on January 17, 2016

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Normal service will be resumed

on January 13, 2016

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The market data product that the global financial services industry really wants....

On a number of projects I have had to work with numerous datasets.

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

Suggestion: it’s directional, asset-class and/or execution style related… If you got here from google - try also OMS and EMS

Banks and Car companies

Readers of this blog will probably be aware of the author's love of an analogy, technology, finance and cars.

What is a FIX engine? [Updated]

In a number of consulting roles over the years I've been asked this question. It's something that I still get asked so I'll describe my view. First, some history on the firms in the FIX engine market sector, then some narrative.

Middleware, an appreciation….

Throughout my working life the role of middleware has played a crucial part. For many people it’s something of a dark art that is not well understood. This post will set out a description of some use cases, some solutions offered by middleware, a taxonomy of different types of middleware and a forward looking analysis.

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