When most people think of cryptocurrencies, they probably think of bitcoin. And a few might also think of Ether, the cryptocurrency that powers the Ethereum blockchain. Their next thought though, might be about one of the many scandals that have...

Over the last decade we've seen the talent pool for trading and space exploration become increasingly overlapped.  Science-based PhDs can now either send a man to Mars or help make markets in US Government Bonds.  But that's not actually...

Blockchain technology, now often referred to as Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT), is taking financial services by storm. Recent work by Greenwich Associates shows that financial services companies are investing heavily in bringing the technology...

The majority of startups fail.  A little googling told me that over 90% fail within three years.  Despite the fact that the cost of starting a company has decreased considerably via cloud computing and open source technology, taking into...

The financial services sector first started paying attention to bitcoin in 2014, but quickly decided that it was the underlying technology – the blockchain – that interested them most. There are many reasons large banks give to explain why they will...

From a fund type perspective, it should come as no surprise that hedge funds - nearly 90% of those in our study - use derivatives, above the roughly 60% of asset managers that do the same.  Their leveraged approach to investing coupled with...

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...