By George Ralph (pictured), RFA Financial Cloud and Technology Services – It’s a widely held misconception that heavily regulated industries are the least agile, and the slowest to innovate. In the financial services sector particularly, there is a tendency to
Arcadia Agri has selected TradesParent’s Commodity Risk Management software (RM) to provide daily up-to-date insights, analytics, reporting and monitoring of the firm’s trading and risk exposures with its proprietary Control Board and intuitive Personalised Dashboards. Arcadia Agri is a specialist
By George Ralph (pictured), RFA – 2017 is as good a time as any to be starting a new alternative investment firm, certainly better than it would have been a decade ago, but there are some key areas of focus
Global Alliance Wealth Management has launched a private debt component to compliment its existing Alternative Solutions Platform. With offices in New York, Hong Kong and soon to be Tokyo, the alternative investment management firm continues to present accredited investors and
The average hedge fund is often a lean operation with limited headcount, which leans more towards the front office. As such, areas such as IT and cybersecurity are typically outsourced. Many have chosen not to hire CISOs but have instead
CBOE Holdings is planning to list options on Blue Apron Holdings (APRN), a meal-kit delivery service. CBOE Holdings anticipates trading in options on Blue Apron will begin on Monday, 10 July, at Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) and C2 Options
Ransomware, malicious code that encrypts files and demands a ransom to decrypt, has been around for years, but why is this most recent version so successful? The answer is bitcoin. Bitcoin provides a method by which hackers may remain anonymous
The Cybersecurity phenomenon has completely changed the game in both the investment management industry and the broader financial services sector. Attacks on fund managers, investment advisers and other fiduciaries (“Fund Managers”) are increasing in frequency, sophistication and severity. And both the regulators and
By George Ralph (pictured), RFA Financial Cloud and Technology Services – The global financial crisis and subsequent recession happened almost a decade ago, but their legacy goes on and on, with more stringent regulations and bigger fines every year. The
By George Ralph (pictured), RFA Financial Cloud and Technology Services – In RightScale’s 2017 State of the Cloud Report, of 1002 respondents from companies of all sizes, primarily located in the US, UK and Europe, 95 per cent of respondents
