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Technology strategy for the front-office. Software development, FIX Orchestra, Cryptocurrency, data-analytics, OMS, EMS, TCA, FIX and global electronic trading. Fixed income, equities, FX, ETD and OTC. Buy-side, sell-side, hedge funds, exchanges and execution venues. And MQTT and Internet-of-Things...

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Fintech Explainer: Anti-Patterns and Job Titles

on December 06, 2020

Anti-Patterns FinTech Patterns

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Fintech Interview: Matthew Reid, Product Manager, SimCorp

on November 27, 2020

Buy-Side OMS cloud FinTech FIX IBOR innovation management Product Management

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Fintech Interview: Andy Mahoney, Managing Director UK, FlexTrade

on November 20, 2020

Buy-Side OMS EMS FinTech innovation management Product Management

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Fintech Interview: Thomas Kim - CEO, Enfusion

on November 17, 2020

Buy-Side OMS EMS FinTech innovation management Strategy

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CentOS 8 and CodeGen

on October 19, 2020

centos FOSS VirtualBox virtualisation

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Fintech: Forget MVP, MCP is what your would-be clients want...

on October 06, 2020

buy vs build FinTech MCP MVP Technical Debt trading

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RAML...Atom...CentOS

on October 02, 2020

API HTML5 JavaScript RAML

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Fintech explainer: Why your fintech is not twitter

on October 01, 2020

business model buy vs build FinTech monetisation Product Management

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Fintech Explainer: Pricing (part two)

on September 29, 2020

Economics FinTech Product Management

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Fintech Explainer: Pricing

on September 24, 2020

Economics FinTech

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MQTT 5.0 analytics platform, greenfield project build, part nine (Workflow)

on September 24, 2020

FIX FIXP MQTT SBE Workflow

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MQTT 5.0 analytics platform, greenfield project build, part eight (Payload)

on September 21, 2020

Java kdb MQTT SBE

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Why I like DuckDuckGo and Bing and not Google

on September 18, 2020

bonds Fixed Income list of fixed income trading venues

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Fintech explainer: What is a smart order router?

on September 18, 2020

best execution digital asset equities exchange trading fx forward fx spot

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Rust - hello world!

on September 13, 2020

centos FIX Rust Rustlang

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MQTT 5.0 analytics platform, greenfield project build, part seven (Using Gradle - why?)

on September 08, 2020

Gradle Java MQTT Patterns

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MQTT 5.0 analytics platform, greenfield project build, part six (Java vs MQTT datatypes and interoperation)

on September 08, 2020

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Code that writes code (creating kdb+ q and Java from XML and XSD)

on September 02, 2020

Agile Apache API C++ Doing IT right FinTech FOSS Internet of things IoT ITCH/OUCH Java JSON MQTT REST SBE SOFH

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Meta-Programming == code that writes code (creating Java code from XML and XSD)

on September 01, 2020

API FIX Java kdb Meta-Programming MQTT Python SBE Shakti

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Why I love Apache Velocity

on August 31, 2020

Apache API FOSS Meta-Programming MQTT SBE Shakti

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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 .

Matching Engines: An overview

Matching engines are at the core of electronic trading. In many cases the actual software is old and written using techniques, patterns and languages from the past. We've considered some enhancements to matching engines before " Matching engine for corporate bonds? ".

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:

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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