FinTech
How FinTech Startups Can Outgrow the Financial Giants
By Ishita Sharma on November 15, 2019
According to ‘The Pulse of FinTech 2018’ report by KPMG, fintech startups bagged over $111 billion in investments across 2,196 deals. The technological evolution of fintech startups has outmatched that of traditional financial services by many leagues. Not only has this served to disrupt the space by directly pitting startups against tech giants, but has […]
FinTech
New Bottle, Old Wine? – Separating The True Fintech Solutions from the Rest
By Anuraj Soni on September 5, 2019
A New World of Banking The rise of fintech in the last half decade or so has taken the financial world by storm. Research suggests that there are now more than 7,500 fintech firms around the world which have raised nearly USD 109 billion in investment. The sector raked in a record breaking USD 54 […]
Security Token Offerings
STO Processing Lifecycle (Part 1) -An overview of STO Lifecycle in Primary and Secondary markets
By Abhishek Jain on June 18, 2019
Security Token Offering seems to be the next hype to utilize BlockChain concepts and transform the current security instruments (Equity, Debt, Derivatives, etc) into digitized security. STOs have gained popularity and momentum in recent times due to lack of regulations in the ICO world with a lot of outliers for most of the ICOs in […]
Security Token Offerings
Why does it matter for a technology company like us to embrace global tech standards?
By Abhishek Jain on June 4, 2019
When ERC-20 Standards came into existence, it eased down the ICO token interoperability across wallets & crypto exchanges for all ERC-20 compliant tokens. Having standards for any process not only helps to have bigger acceptance but also improves interoperability to build up an ecosystem. Being a technology obsessed firm, we’ve always encouraged standards to be […]
Blockchain Testing
Battling Blockchain Vulnerabilities through Quality Audits
By Anuraj Soni on May 3, 2019
The original promise of blockchain technology was security. However, they might not be as invulnerable as initially thought. Smart contracts, the protocols which govern blockchain transactions, have yielded under targeted attacks in the past. The intricacies of these protocols let programmers implement anything that the core system allows, which includes inserting loops in the code. […]
Artificial Intelligence
The Underlying Process of Predictive Analysis
By Brijesh Arora on September 14, 2018
Predictive Analysis – What it is? Whenever you hear the term “Predictive Analysis”, a question pop-ups in mind “Can we predict the future?”. The answer is “no” and the future is still a beautiful mystery as it should be. However, the predictive analysis does forecast the possibility of a happening in the future with an […]
Cloud Transformation
Choose Your Cloud Partner Wisely
By Sarbani Maiti on August 21, 2018
Gartner Says By 2020, a Corporate “No-Cloud” Policy Will Be as Rare as a “No-Internet” Policy Is Today. With the increasing number of cloud adoption rate, it has become instrumental for organizations to build a robust Cloud migrations strategy. As per the Commvault report. the cloud Fear of Missing Out (FOMO) is driving the business leaders to move […]
Machine Learning
5 ways in which Machine Learning can impact FinTech
By Akhil Mittal on August 7, 2018
Machine learning is one amongst those technologies that is invariably around us and that we might not even comprehend it. For instance, machine learning is employed to resolve issues like deciding if an email that we got is a spam or a genuine one, how cars can drive on their own, and what product someone […]
Machine Learning
RPA vs Cognitive RPA – Journey of Automation
By Sarbani Maiti on August 6, 2018
Evolution of RPA IT outsourcing took-off in the early ’90s with broadening globalization driven primarily by labor arbitrage. This was followed by the BPO outsourcing wave in early 2000. The initial wave of outsourcing delivered over 35% cost savings on an average but continued to stay inefficient due to low productivity & massive demand for […]
Enterprise Data Management
Has Digitalization Led To The Problem Of Unstructured Data
By Madhur Gulati on July 26, 2018
Before we actually get into details as to how digitalization has contributed to unstructured data, we really need to understand what is meant by the terms, Digitalization and Unstructured Data. Digitization: is the process of converting information into a digital format. In this format, information is organized into discrete units of data (called bits) that can be separately […]
Financial Trading
Visual Analytics And Visual Representation Are Not The Same
By Brijesh Arora on July 11, 2018
People are often confused with the terms – Visual analytics and Visual Representations. They many times take both words for the same meaning – presenting a set of data into some kind of graphs which looks good to the naked eye. However deep down, ask an analyst and they will tell you that visual representation […]
Enterprise Data Management
Reference Data And Its Management
By Om P Kesari on September 25, 2017
Reference data is an important asset in financial firm. Due to recent crisis in global market, regularity changes and explosion of derivative and structured products, the need for valuable market & reference data has become central focus for financial institutions. For any financial transaction accurate information/data is the key element and faulty data is the major […]
Enterprise Data Management
Enterprise Data Management In Capital market
By Sarbani Maiti on September 25, 2017
Reference data is the data used to classify other data in any enterprise. Reference data is used within every enterprise application, across back-end systems through front-end applications. Reference data is commonly stored in the form of code tables or lookup tables, such as country codes, state codes, and gender codes. Reference data in the capital market is […]
Corporate Actions
Corporate Actions: Beyond The Golden Copy
By Brijesh Arora on September 25, 2017
Corporate actions industry is making great strides towards automation. However, despite all the technology advancements a significant portion of the process of managing corporate actions data requires manual processing mainly due to the increasing complexity of corporate actions thanks to cross border trading made easier and local market nuances. Another big reason why the Corporate […]
Financial Trading
Trading System And Algorithmic Trading Strategies
By Sarbani Maiti on September 13, 2017
What is a Trading System? A “trading system” creates a set of trading strategies which are applied to the given input data to generate entry and exit signals (buy/sell) in a trading platform.The traders/professionals who create the trading strategies to maximize the profit are called “Quants”. They use exhaustive quantitative research & analysis to build such […]
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