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Regulatory Challenges of Financial Markets: Data and MiFIDs II
Introduction
The Financial Markets are complex and are highly data-driven. The Directive MiFID II (Markets in Financial Instruments) will be implemented in the year 2018 and it is expected to have a significant effect on the European financial industry. It will affect individuals ranging from banks, fund managers, traders, brokers and more. The expectation is to ...
The Importance Of Automating Critical Business Processes
Introduction
Relying on Excel, manual processes, and ad hoc code to perform business critical tasks is counterproductive. The solution? Business process automation. An innovative approach to systemize key business tasks, business process automation streamlines the processes by making them less redundant, risky, costly and fragile.
What comes to mind when you think of business automation?
Efficiency? More ...
The Ongoing Growth In Data And What It Means To Your Business
Introduction
Large volumes of data are processed, collected and reported by businesses each day. In fact, two hours is the average time a typical business user spends manipulating and massaging data each day. A strong data strategy is required to be able to manage and scale to the volumes of data growth, reduce the inefficiency of ...
What Web Services Can Do For You!
Introduction
As a means by which devices and software communicate over the World Wide Web, web services range from major services such as customer relationship management (CRM) and storage management to much more restricted and niche specific services such as checking of auction item bids and provision of market data.
Web services are services made ...
Converting Waste Emissions Into Diesel: A Climate Change Solution
I love clean diesel cars. I enjoy hitting upwards of 950km per diesel tank and knowing that I can cover larger distances with a smaller amount of emissions. Given the choice, this is normally where my vehicle-purchasing choices lie. And, based on data from R.L. Polk and Co, clean diesel car registrations in the ...
Syria and Cyber-Attacks: New Targets Call for New Security Measures
“Welcome to the new world,” was the response of Michael Chertoff, the former secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, to the recent computer attacks on the New York Times and Associated Press Twitter accounts.
The current warfare situation is indeed new: the recently published U.S. Government Assessment of the Syrian Government’s Use of Chemical Weapons ...
Canada’s Carbon Capture and Storage Solution
With all the talk about stemming the flow of greenhouse gas emissions, reducing the world’s population’s carbon footprint on earth, and the fight over global warming, the idea of simply storing carbon dioxide (CO2) gasses back underground – from where we originally took the oil and natural gases that we burn – almost seems ...
Is the East-West Canadian Line Another Pipe Dream?
Since Canada has one of the world’s largest oil sands projects (after Saudi Arabia and Venezuela), expected to pump out three million barrels a day by 2018 according to the western province of Alberta’s Government, it might come as a surprise that it is also a large importer of OPEC oil. In fact, Canada ...
Bankruptcy: Setting Up Detroit for a Comeback?
I’ve always had an interest in Detroit. Something about it once being a powerhouse of industry, but now an underdog full of decay, has piqued my interest and compassion. I always hope for Detroit to rebuild and regain its former glory, showing the world that the amazing heart of its remaining citizens (down to ...
Moon Mining: the Next Frontier of the Energy Industry?
In 1934 Australian nuclear physicist Mark Oliphant suggested the hypothetical existence of a radioactive isotope as a result of his first experiments of nuclear fusion. In short, the isotope was the unique structure of two protons and one neutron (in contrast with common helium which has two protons). This radioactive isotope was later discovered ...
