Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)’s Asset Management Market Study

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)’s recently published the results of its Asset Management Market Study and announced the package of remedies it will take forward to address the concerns identified in its interim report into the sector. Andrew Bailey, Chief Executive at the FCA said: “The asset management sector is important to the economy, managing the savings Read More …

The fast-growing industry of data brokers and our cheap personal data

There’s a fast-growing industry in India that’s called ‘data brokers’. These companies offer on online listings their services of selling personal data of Indian residents, i.e. residential address, phone number, email id, details of what you bought online, email ids, age, marital status, age, income, profession and much more. is all up for sale, very cheaply Read More …

Behavioural finance new tool for TD Private Wealth Management

The Toronto-based TD Wealth Private Wealth Management (TD Wealth PWM) launched a new technology tool, that uses ‘behavioural finance’,  aimed at helping the firm’s financial advisors illuminate “financial blind spots” that their high-net-worth clients may have when they’re making their investment decisions. Behavioural finance will help to prevent emotions from overriding logic in the financial Read More …

HFT High-Frequency Trading UK firms reducing trading time ahead of MiFID II

The MiFID (Markets in Financial Instruments Directive), the EU legislation that regulates firms who provide services to clients linked to ‘financial instruments’ and the venues where those instruments are traded, that was first applied in the UK from November 2007, is now being revised to improve the functioning of financial markets in light of the Read More …

Cloud businesses’ quarterly results: Oligopoly and growth of the Tech Giants

The main reason why Amazon is worth so much right now and for its recent journey into solid profitability is not that it is the world’s most famous e-commerce business. Its Amazon Web Services, selling remote computing power to businesses, are again the star of Amazon’s earnings report. AWS is at the moment the most valuable startup in Read More …

Hedge Funds and the deep learning artificial intelligence technology

WorldQuant, a quantitative investment management firm founded in 2007 with over 500 employees globally, has been sad using for small-scale trading an artificial intelligence technology called deep learning (also known as deep structured learning, hierarchical learning or deep machine learning) that loosely mimics the neurones in our brains. In fact, our neurones are densely interconnected in complex Read More …

Possible future solutions for financial transaction monitoring problems

Financial institutions, such as banks, funds and insurers rely on automated systems to fulfil their obligations for continuous transaction monitoring, in order to detect unusual transactional behaviours. Those monitoring systems get set up and programmed with the relevant rules, meaningful customer segmentation and adequate risk-based thresholds, dependently on the availability of up-to-date customer data, the understanding Read More …