Last week I attended the sold-out Empire Startups FinTech conference in NYC. From the moment I walked in I realized this was not your typical stop on the conference circuit. The venue was Webster Hall – a downtown nightclub venue repurposed for...

In my first blog post on the evolving blockchain technology landscape I wrote about how, following the hype of 2015, this year would see technology companies and financial services firms explore different ways to use the blockchain technology in...

I recently participated in a great panel discussion with James Jockle from Numerix and Kazu Yokokawa from the Nomura Research Institute. I look forward to getting an update from Kazu on the POCs they are working on!    

Richard Johnson, Greenwich Associates vice president of market structure and technology, discusses the results of the firm's survey of 256 buy-side traders around the world. He speaks with Bloomberg's Alix Steel on Bloomberg Markets. Bloomberg...

The biggest FinTech story of last week was the announcement that not only had Digital Asset Holdings (DAH)  raised $52mm in funding, but had also secured a strategic contract to develop distributed ledger (blockchain) settlement solutions for...

There has been plenty of talk amongst the industry about the MiFID II rules aimed at bringing more transparency to dark pool trading venues across Europe.  Regulators claim the lack of transparency and details around transactions is dangerous...

US equity markets are always touted as the poster child for electronic trading, but our most recent electronic trading study results (see chart below) prove that view is somewhat misguided.  Driven primarily by new rules requiring index CDS...

A few weeks back I had a great conversation with Liquidnet’s head of Fixed Income trading and the head of InteractiveData’s evaluated pricing service. Both firms provide tools to the market that hope to improve transparency and ultimately lubricate...

Growing uncertainty about the future of operating systems and devices used by financial services firms is forcing technologists to consider technology-agnostic application development. Our latest research suggests that companies developing...

Excel is the biggest killer app of all time.  Yeah, web browsers are pretty useful and Instagram was sold for $1 billion, but when it comes to managing numbers nothing can touch Excel.  This is why global financial markets continue to...