Tag: FX

What will we see for capital markets in 2012?  The countdown to 2012 has begun. On the capital markets horizon is a great deal of change – no surprise to those following this year’s rollercoaster of rogue algorithms and regulation tension. So with no further ado, here are our capital markets...

May 6th, 2010 lives in infamy in financial markets; a precipitate dive on the US stock market wiping a trillion dollars off the value of equities in just under 30 minutes stunned the industry.

The speed at which such an astonishing crash took place was partly in thanks to the ever-shrinking...

Algorithms and high frequency trading have been blamed for everything from the credit crisis to the May 6th flash crash and high speed market abuse, and have attracted unwanted interest from regulators on both sides of the pond. But questions remain whether these tools are really computer models gone...

There is a new kind of emotional disorder going around the financial markets - the previously unnamed fear of something ominous now that new financial rules have been laid down. Let's call it regulation anxiety.

Regulation anxiety has led to all sorts of new types of behavior in banks...

My colleague Dan Hubscher and I just finished the first of a two part Webinar entitled "Build Quickly, Run...