Real-time, event-driven processing technology has underpinned the front-office for many years, indeed decades, but many other parts of capital markets including risk management, continues to rely on batch-driven processing.
Topics: Torstone Technology, Technology, Risk, post-trade
Ten years of Torstone: Post-trade in a defining decade and the trends shaping the future
Ten years feels like a lifetime in financial technology. When we founded Torstone in 2011, the sell-side’s main focus was investment in the front office, largely leaving back-office functions to gather dust. We saw a problem that needed to be addressed,…
Topics: Torstone Technology, Innovation, Risk, post-trade
Improvements to the securities and derivatives Industry that can reduce your cost of ownership
Topics: Technology, Data, Risk, Risk Aggregation
The biggest problem with an ever-changing regulatory environment, and how you can fix it
Adopting a componentised architecture lets a bank move with the rules, and ahead of client appetite.
Topics: Technology, Regulation, Data, Capital Markets, Risk
The tipping point for cross-asset, agile post-trade processing
Better Client Servicing Hinges upon an Efficient, Adaptable Cost-effective Back Office as Digital Assets Become Mainstream.
Banks across both developed and emerging markets can gain significant operational advantages over their peers, by streamlining…
Topics: Cloud, Legacy, Cross-Asset, Data, Capital Markets, Risk
Cloud Computing and Capital Markets in 2018 and Beyond
Percentile’s CTO, Chris Miller, discusses why he believes Cloud is no longer a “dirty word” in Capital Markets and Banking.
Topics: Cloud, Capital Markets, Risk
Risk has gone through three distinct phases over the last 30 years. The changes have reflected both the external focus on the financial services industry from regulators and the way that technology has changed what’s possible. It’s a process that’s…
Risk Technology Challenges for Asset Managers
This is a transcript of an a recent interview with Anthony Pereira, CEO of Percentile.
[Q] What are the major technology challenges that asset managers are facing at the moment?
They’re very similar to what has been faced by other industry sectors, in…
Six things to demand from your Risk Technology
Given events in the financial sector in the past decade, it’s safe to say all eyes are on risk. In the context of lessons learned from the financial crisis, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision in its BCBS 239: Principles for Effective Risk Data…
Risk technology: spend your budget on the carrots, don’t waste it on the stick
Anthony Pereira, CEO of Percentile, specialists in risk technology for financial services, examines the Basel III interim findings which see the industry falling short