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(DataTrek Research, Nicholas Colas)
#1: George Akerlof is an important economist for 2 reasons. First, he won a Nobel Prize for a brilliantly simple 13- page paper called “The Market for Lemons”. It describes the problems posed by asymmetric information in markets, with used cars as the example. Good used cars tend to trade privately,
Continue...(Chronicle Software, Peter Lawrey)
Microservices are an architectural paradigm that combine many different concepts and best practices, including domain-driven design, continuous delivery, platform and infrastructure automation, scalable systems, polyglot programming and persistence (Singh, 2018). They represent a practical implementation of Robert C Martin’s single-responsibility principle, which essentially states that things that change for the
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In October 2020, the Wall Street Journal published a fascinating piece about the popular social media platform TikTok that caught my attention. At the time TikTok’s global future was uncertain as the US & China sparred over the app’s ownership and data sharing agreements with the Chinese government. Amid a flurry of
Continue...(Re:infer, Stephen Mackintosh)
“I’m totally convinced that the battleground of banking is not the front office. The battleground is the back end.” Sergio Ermotti, CEO UBS Banks’ Legacy Operations Transformation Challenges A decade on from the global financial crisis, many banks are still struggling with profitability and high cost-income ratios. Alongside efforts to increase
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Amid crises in the community and in the markets, investment banks and asset managers kicked up the demand for market data to new highs. With unprecedented market conditions clouding the industry, companies sought new information to help them understand their exposure to risky investments and to predict the most profitable
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Trading Outlook for 2021: Outfoxing The Competition by Outsourcing
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