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).
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 ...
Digiterre, a leading bespoke agile solutions software provider is celebrating after being shortlisted in no less than three categories at the awards in the 2019 HFM European Hedge Funds Services Awards.
By: Lape Runsewe
Category: Industry Insights/ News and EventsDate: 20/12/18
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.”
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.
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.
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.
Digiterre congratulates Debtwire, the leading global publisher of market information and intelligence on the distressed debt and leveraged finance markets, on 15 years of outstanding and pioneering growth. Debtwire is a key company of Acuris, a media organisation specialising in high value content for financial professionals.
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 ...
The ‘Agile’ methodology has swept across the landscape of customised software and digital development for huge numbers of organisations around the globe, gathering momentum especially over the last 15 to 20 years. It can best be described as ‘the ability to create and respond to change in order to succeed in an uncertain and turbulent environment’ (Source: ...
Digital transformation is one of those phrases that easily slips off the tongues of MDs and CEOs for pretty much any sort of business or public sector organisation. It gives the impression of ambition, achievement, success and change – or at least the ambition for great change. Perhaps it’s straight out of the ‘How To…’ ...