UK Government Data Strategy – Video Blog
We summarize some of the key objectives from the UK government’s recently released data strategy.
Entries by JPCarbonnier
Market Data, Reference Data and Blockchain
This blog was originally published by Xenomorph (www.xenomorph.com) Blockchain, or distributed ledger technology (DLT), has the potential to disrupt a wide range of business models across the financial services industry. However, the potential application of blockchain to the worlds of market data and reference data has not received that much attention. It’s difficult to predict […]
Blockchain and Trust: Do You Trust the Trust Machine?
I’ve read a few articles over the last year linking blockchain and trust (see footnotes). I find the analogy a good one, but not entirely complete. Blockchain can serve as a technical intermediary between parties looking to execute an agreement (such as the transfer of digital cash). It then creates a record of that agreement, […]
Capital Markets in the Cloud
Markets have always been ‘places’ where traders and investors have met to transact and establish an equilibrium price for assets. As cloud architectures take hold, those places may one day become more ethereal and less tied to a single physical location. The advent of capital markets in the cloud may not be far away. The […]
Monetising Customer Data: Google vs Banks
My relationship with Google [1] goes back a long way. I started using their search engine in 2001, and since then have happily added an ever growing set of their services – from email, contacts, calendars, cloud storage and maps, through to my mobile operating system. Amazingly, they have never charged me a thing, which […]
Santa’s Birds and Market Surveillance
A few weeks ago my wife introduced me to a new concept: Santa’s birds. The idea is based on a book of a similar title, and having mentioned it to some friends I discovered there’s a more established alternative known as the ‘Elf on the shelf.’ Both stories are modern day adaptations of the Santa […]
Swap to the Future (the futurisation of swaps)
I read an interesting article recently about the hesitancy of US swap markets to move towards a ‘futurised’ model. It got me thinking: given the pressure from regulators for the industry to move in that direction, what’s the hold up? Now, this is a gross over-simplification, but for anyone unfamiliar with the market, I’d think […]
The Long and the Short of it
Carbonnier in French means charcoal maker. So it’s not surprising that I would come from a long line of foresters. My father is a forester, so too was his father before him and his father before him. Having ended up working in the financial technology industry (sadly, none of my siblings have continued the family […]