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Fintech Innovation, Improvisation and Kelly's Heroes

on December 17, 2017

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Web Assembly & Streaming Data for Financial Markets (HTML5, OMS, EMS, Market Data): proof-of-concept

on December 03, 2017

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Web Assembly & Streaming Data for Financial Markets (HTML5, OMS, EMS, Market Data)

on December 01, 2017

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MacOS High Sierra 10.13.1, Bootcamp, APFS and Windows 10 Build 1709 problem

on November 28, 2017

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Fixed Income Electronic Trading, MiFID2 and Jarvis Cocker

on November 04, 2017

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Fixed Income Leaders Summit Amsterdam 2017

on November 04, 2017

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KYB – know your broker vs the order routing enigma

on October 22, 2017

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Australia FIX Trading Conference, 19th October 2017, Midday. "Technology Innovation: Finding the Next Game Changers"

on October 13, 2017

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Big data methodology for the buy-side

on September 11, 2017

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VirtualBox: After upgrading guest Windows OS, reinstall GuestAdditions

on September 09, 2017

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OMS - functional deficiencies as a driver for change?

on August 18, 2017

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Github for MacOS desktop

on August 02, 2017

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Scala

on August 02, 2017

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Fixed Income Leaders Summit 2017, Amsterdam

on July 28, 2017

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Disaster Recovery, von Moltke and Schrödinger

on June 16, 2017

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FIX, Electronic Trading and Disaster Recovery

on June 09, 2017

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Visual Studio for Mac

on May 27, 2017

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Fintech: What is an OMS?

on May 24, 2017

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Blackberry KEYone: Where are the USB drivers?

on May 06, 2017

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Apple: How not to do eCommerce - sell me the cable I want!!!

on May 01, 2017

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FIX Networks: Small is beautiful

on April 30, 2017

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TradeTech 2017 Paris Day 2, Wednesday 26th April

on April 04, 2017

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FIGI - 24% of Asset Managers?

on March 25, 2017

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Exchanges and their matching engines

on February 20, 2017

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FIX Orchestra: RC1 out now - next steps and looking ahead

on January 04, 2017

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FIX: Co-located onboarding?

on January 03, 2017

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Revolution #9

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

How many Fixed Income trading venues are there? [182] Last update 3rd January 2025] A simple question came up recently in a conversation – how many new Fixed Income trading venues are there? I could not think of anywhere that maintained a comprehensive list, so I decided to try and put something together. A global list of Fixed Income Trading Venues with a change log

Excel RTD Server implementation in C#......Part 1

I have not written much C# recently but I've had two conversations recently on the topic of RTD Server implementations so I thought I'd try and refresh my memory.

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.

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

Windows equivalent of UNIX "touch" command

A fairly standard operation in *nix world is the command touch. Touch changes file dates, so it's an easy way to kick off backup jobs or similar that use file modification times. Windows doesn't have an exact analogue, but a functionally similar feature exists within PowerShell.

Controversial viewpoint: As a fintech start-up you don't need or want a marquee client

Over the years this has been a big topic which has been bounced back and forth. In response to this debate, some thoughts… If you have a fintech start-up do you need a marquee client?

Middleware: RESTful interfaces ActiveMQ vs RabbitMQ vs Solace Systems

One use-case for Message Oriented Middleware is to provide a RESTful endpoint. This post looks at some options for how to do this for a specific use case:

Fintech Interview: Thomas Kim - CEO, Enfusion

A slight change of pace, a series of interviews with interesting people within the Fintech space. First up, Thomas Kim of Enfusion...

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.

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