Author Archives: Neil McGovern
Ready For The Legal Entity Identifier (LEI)? The Industry Thinks So
Some welcome good news for financial institutions came out in April’s “Building a Data Management Foundaton” webcast. Most respondents (80%) felt that their current data management systems are in good shape for future regulatory requirements. These regulat…
Dodd-Frank and Volcker Rule Off Target
“During the recent crisis, we had a number of powers that might have been used on too-big-to-fail institutions,” Esther George said at the Hyman P. Minsky Conference in New York on Wednesday. “But [they] were not employed to any notable extent.”
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High Frequency Trading – Still Contentious
TradeTech last week in New York was one of the best yet. David Leinweber started off the proceedings at the not-so-subway-accessible Javits Center, and if you haven’t seen David’s talk about his research at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (y…
More Thoughts on Big Data
Capital markets firms are increasing motivated to mine more and more data. So a question about the spread of data caught my attention a couple of weeks ago: Would different groups within an organization collecting as much data as they could for data mining…
A Chicken in Every Pot, a Car in Every Garage … Hadoop on Every Desktop?
Herbert Hoover aimed to win the U.S. presidency in 1928 by promising prosperity with slogans such as “a chicken in every pot and a car in every garage.” One wonders why houses had garages before cars were ubiquitous, of course.
More seriously, one a…
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