The next big UI challenge is making big data human
Reblogged from GigaOm IBM’s Jeopardy-playing supercomputer Watson is now getting a gig in the retail banking sector as part of an IBM partnership with Citi. This is in addition to its position as a...
View ArticleDebate – High Frequency Trading Beneifits the Quality of Markets
The debate hosted by The Economist For the Motion Jim Overdahl Vice-president, Securities and Finance Practice, National Economic Research Associates High-frequency trading has improved the overall...
View ArticleTrade to improve your portfolio
Continuing the Debate from The Economist An interesting write-up from Abnormal Returns One of the persistent themes on Wall Street is that investing strategies go in and out of favor on a regular...
View ArticleUsing Twitter To Predict Financial Markets
Past research has looked at the sentiment on Twitter to predict stock price, but until now little research has focused on the volume of tweets and the way tweets are linked. Reblogged from Wall Street...
View ArticleWith High-Frequency Trading, Financial Firms Face New Challenges
Reblogged from Cisco Blog In recent years, the financial industry has witnessed a revolution. To discuss, debate, and seek a bit of consensus on the crucial issues impacting the industry, I met earlier...
View ArticleWorkshops on Quantitative Finance – London
OptiRisk Systems in collaboration with UNICOM Seminars Ltd is pleased to bring to you its series of yearly events on Hidden Markov Models, Interest Rate Modeling, Portfolio Analysis and Asset Liability...
View ArticlePortfolio Optimisation – OptiRisk Systems
This white paper introduces Markowitz mean-variance model with a general overview and sets out to explain why and how the finance industry has fully embraced this as method of choice for portfolio...
View ArticleLiability Driven Investment – Variant of Asset Liability Management
Undoubtedly, the pension systems are in a crisis. Corporations, governments and regulators need to adopt new approaches before individuals are left alone with their pension and healthcare planning. An...
View ArticleUncertainty in Pension benefits and Liability Driven Investment
After UK Chancellor George Osborne passed the budget couple of weeks back, it has created quite a stir in the financial community, especially for retired pensioners. Pension Minister Steve Webb, has...
View ArticleIBM Optimisation Forum
OptiRisk Systems in association with IBM UK and UNICOM Seminars, hosted a gala event on “Optimisation in the Financial Services Sector” On November 13, 2012 at the IBM South Bank Premises. The event...
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