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Rapid Addition Strengthens Technology Team with CTO Hire

Rapid Addition Strengthens Technology Team with CTO Hire

Deepak Dhayatker joins from Commerzbank to lead technology organisation expansion   London, January 31st, 2022 – Rapid Addition is delighted to announce the appointment of Deepak Dhayatker as Chief Technology Officer. In this role he will lead Rapid Addition’s technology organisation and drive its expansion in support of the Company’s growth plans. Deepak joins from […]

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Realizing data opportunities in the securities industry - WatersTechnology

Realizing data opportunities in the securities industry – WatersTechnology

Digitized securities markets depend on efficient flows of structured data, but the lack of standardized data models could soon start to impede their growth. Data is now the primary ingredient of the securities services industry. It governs the efficiency of settlement, safekeeping, asset servicing and regulatory reporting. Data is also driving product development. Ultimately, the […]

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Beyond Crypto – realising the potential for digital assets with institutional investors

Beyond Crypto – realising the potential for digital assets with institutional investors

Crypto currencies have been making headlines again over the last couple of weeks thanks to Chinese regulators banning financial institutions and payment companies from providing cryptocurrency transaction services, while also warning investors against speculative crypto trading. Sentiment was further undermined by Tesla’s CEO, Elon Musk, reversing a previous decision that his company would accept Bitcoin […]

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Post-Pandemic Optimism – a new era of technology enabled innovation for capital markets

I was lucky enough to join Nomura’s Japanese equity desk in London as my first job out of university. It was the late 80s, the Nikkei 225 was soon to hit an all-time high of nearly 39,000, and the big 4 Japanese brokerages of Nomura, Yamaichi, Daiwa and Nikko had become international financial powerhouses. However, […]

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Overbond and Rapid Addition form strategic alliance

Overbond and Rapid Addition form strategic alliance

Overbond and Rapid Addition form strategic alliance to bring interoperability and market connectivity to bond trading automation   The collaboration gives fixed income traders around the globe the ability to harness the precision analytics, industry-leading speed, and extensive market coverage of Overbond AI alongside Rapid Addition’s high performance electronic messaging platform to automate up to […]

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The View is Clear – the Forecast is for Cloud

When it comes to capital markets, realising the promise of Public Cloud seems to have been a long time coming.    Over the last decade it’s felt like there’s been an endless stream of conference panels discussing the benefits of Cloud, C-level execs proclaiming that their organisation will adopt a ‘cloud first’ strategy, and large Cloud vendors forecasting how investment banks were about to become the new Netflix.    Yet at times actual adoption seemed […]

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