Managing Digital Transformation by IT and Security Teams
Elena Kvochko, CIO-Group Security Function, Barclays [NYSE:BCS]
Blockchain: Where Are We Headed?
Joshua Q. Israel Satten, Director, Sapient Global Markets [NASDAQ:SAPE]
With businesses offering services to the entire world, the ever-changing global economy demands for smarter ways to perform capital planning and manage risk. As a result of the lack of dynamic market strategies, and new regulatory and risk management requirements, the capital market, as a whole, is trying to identify the most favorable financial instruments for efficiently raising the capital and gauging the dynamics of financial markets. Financial institutions are increasingly leveraging the growing number of mobile technology and components to not only help investors manage their assets on a regular basis but also to monitor stock quotes, trade on the run, and check the initiatives made by fellow traders—all in real time
Jonathan Reichental, CIO, City of Palo Alto
I’ve seen a lot of new ideas. I mean a lot. I’ve been right a few times about what would succeed.
Christopher Kennedy, VP-Quantitative Finance Manager, BankUnited [NYSE:BKU]
FinTech or simply financial technology, is moving at the speed of innovation. FinTech originally represented the shift of traditional brick-and-mortar banking to online and mobile platforms.
Gregory Schwartz, CIO, Scottrade
Cloud computing has matured and is being widely used in most industries today, including Capital Markets.
David Easthope, SVP, Celent
CIOs role has constantly been redefined as they wear many hats along the journey of an organization. It can be said that a CIO must be a master of the present and a predictor of the future.
David Meitz, Managing Director & CTO, ITG
Nowhere has the term “Big Data” been more overused than in financial services, particularly in capital markets. The financial services industry produces massive amounts of data daily.
Daniel Friel, CIO, International Securities Exchange Holdings, (ISE Holdings)
The exchange industry is more competitive than it has ever been. As technologists, it is our job to fuel the business by enhancing trading functionality while also maintaining strict cost management.
David K Donovan, SVP, Sapient Global Markets
The asset management Industry is grappling with a number of issues. A combination of the current low interest environment, alongside the digital tsunami, shifting demographics.
Ken Barnes, SVP, Corporate Development, Options IT
Technologies relevant to the financial services community come and go with varying degrees of signal to noise, and of course more often than not skew towards the latter end of that spectrum.
Keith Dennelly, CIO, Asset Management, Fidelity Investments
For years, the technology team serving Fidelity Investments’ asset management division was managed as a collection of independent groups that built customized solutions for their respective business areas.
Nin Desai, CEO, NIN Ventures
NIN Ventures (or NIN.VC) is a first of its kind crowdfunded technology venture capital fund to be raised, managed, and reported online using the JOBS Act and the General Solicitation Rule.
Mike Bailey, CPA, Finance and Information Services Director, City of Redmond, WA
Upon arriving at the City of Redmond in 2008 one of the first concerns expressed by our management team was the need to update our financial systems.
