Industry Insights

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By: Lape Runsewe

As in so many industries, cloud technology, with all its inherent benefits, is being adopted by commodity trading organisations. Their tech landscape is definitely changing – and fast! Organisations are switching from on-premise commodity trading and risk management solutions to cloud-based systems.

By: Lape Runsewe

The asset management leaders of tomorrow need to adopt new skills in order to develop a competitive advantage, in an environment where it is predicted one-quarter of fund firms risk becoming unprofitable by 2028, according to research carried out by Investment Week.

By: Lape Runsewe

It’s been 15 months now since MiFID II was introduced. With the dual aim of firstly, improving the markets’ competitiveness by creating a single market for investment services and secondly, ensuring a high degree of harmonised protection for investors in financial instruments – it aims to ensure all EU member states share a common, robust regulatory ...

By: Lape Runsewe

The 43 police forces in the UK face a multitude of challenges. Stressed out from massively reduced budgets – direct government funding is down 30% since 2010 – violent crime is growing again, not to mention rising levels of domestic violence.

By: James Fraser

We thought it would be helpful to unravel some of the contents of the ‘black box’ which is the UK financial services industry – estimated to be worth well over £176 billion in 2018. (Source: Finance Feeds).

By: Digiterre

So, the snappily named ‘Markets in Financial Instruments Directive’ has been applicable across the European Union since as long ago as November 2007. It’s basically a cornerstone of the EU’s regulation of financial markets. It does two things essentially: All of MiFID, in summary, aimed to remove barriers to cross-border financial services within Europe ...

By: Lape Runsewe

We no longer have a risk-based regulation. What we have is regulation based risk management and what we need to effectively address this see-change in the regulatory landscape, and to run our businesses even more effectively – are data architectures which can readily surface a “single view of the truth.”

By: Lape Runsewe

A survey by the International Energy Agency, the IEA, amongst European energy companies’ last year, revealed that investment in digital transformation to date had been largely hardware-based, focusing on smart meters and electric vehicle charging.

By: Digiterre

A study this September by analytics database firm Exasol explored how energy companies are becoming more data-centric in their decision-making, but it found that surprisingly still only 17 per cent of energy companies are implementing a data-driven strategy.

By: Lape Runsewe

Some energy CEOs will see digital as a risk to their business model, but the more visionary ones in the sector will see digital as a route to not just greater efficiencies but new and greater business opportunities.

By: Lape Runsewe

The public sector should progress citizen engagement and online experiences in a visionary and transformative way, learning from major private sector platforms and pioneering wherever it can and wherever it’s cost-effective to do so. Easier said than done, for sure. However fears over cybersecurity can restrain such large-scale transformation programmes and in turn, limit ...

By: James Fraser