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Fintech: Vendor Relationship Management: Follow the white rabbit...

on June 17, 2018

Activity Based Costing buy vs build vendor management

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Ah but... An (imaginary) rebuttal from Block Trading and Fixed Income Venues

on March 13, 2018

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Block Trading Venues and Fixed Income Trading Venues: Twins, separated at birth?

on March 12, 2018

Bloomberg bonds buy vs build Buy-Side OMS equities MarketAxess Tradeweb trading vendor management

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FIX Networks: Small is beautiful

on April 30, 2017

Activity Based Costing buy buy vs build Buy-Side OMS Doing IT right EMS FIX FIX Network FIX Orchestra FIXP sell-side vendor management

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Exchanges and their matching engines

on February 20, 2017

buy vs build equities exchange trading vendor management

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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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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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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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MIFID2: Is MIFID2 the new Y2K?

on June 13, 2016

buy vs build https://github.com/AlignmentSystems https://twitter.com/AlignmentSys MIFID2 Strategy vendor management

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OMS: Managing Drift

on May 29, 2016

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Technical Debt

on March 31, 2015

buy vs build Doing IT right https://twitter.com/AlignmentSys https://www.linkedin.com/company/alignment-systems middleware Strategy Technical Debt vendor management

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Vendor relationship management and "Orphan Technology" - what next?

on December 15, 2014

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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

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.

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

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.

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.

Fintech Interview: Kevin Mak, Co-Founder, Ironfly Technologies

Sixth interview with interesting folks within Fintech, this one with Kevin Mak of Ironfly Technologies .

Kill Switch

The kill switch is a requirement for a modern automated trading environment. The term is pretty generic and can include capabilities such as:

What does a 21st Century Exchange matching engine look like?

A regulated exchange is a big complicated way to facilitate one thing – bringing buyers and sellers together to trade in a legally and regulatory compliant manner. Behind that simple one line are a considerable number of other features that are required within the value chain (not necessarily within the same firm) For CSD based equities, a delivery-versus-payment mechanism to ensure that no-one loses all of their stock or cash. For a derivative exchange a clearing mechanism that can calculate IM and VM and ensure member margin accounts are maintained to a sufficient balance Market surveillance to ensure bad actors are kept out of the market FIX Connectivity for orders/executions FIX Connectivity “drop-copy” for post-trade workflow Binary market data over UDP/Multicast for latency sensitive firms Integrations with market data vendors such as Activ, Refinitiv, Bloomberg and many more Co-location offering KYC/AML/CFT processes to ensure regulatory compliance Persistent storage for instrum...

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...

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