RA Blog

November 27, 2023

The importance of sell-side relationships to investing in regional markets

The importance of sell-side relationships to investing in regional markets By Mike Powell, CEO Rapid Addition I had the pleasure…

Opinions

November 21, 2023

Remote Working in a Post-Pandemic World

The Covid pandemic precipitated a seismic shift in white-collar workplace practices, particularly in the technology sector, and employers are struggling…

Opinions

September 15, 2023

Tilting at Giants

In Miguel de Cervantes’ seminal 17th Century novel, a delusional middle-aged man named Alonso Quixano becomes obsessed with chivalry and…

Opinions

August 23, 2023

The Future for Trading in the Cloud

If the picture of cloud adoption by trading firms and market services providers is a little grey today, is the…

Trading Technology

August 1, 2023

Which Trading Functions are Best Suited to Cloud

In previous blogs, we’ve explored the factors driving capital markets’ embrace of cloud technology (link), the benefits firms are already…

Trading Technology

July 25, 2023

Differentiation and Scale–Is Cloud Ready to Transform Trading Infrastructure?

Modern capital markets’ structure has been shaped by the adoption of new technologies. Major regulatory shake-ups, such as MiFID and…

Trading Technology

June 30, 2023

Obstacles to Cloud Adoption in Capital Markets Trading

By Mike Powell, CEO, Rapid Addition. We’ve already talked about what’s driving capital markets’ growing interest in cloud technologies, and…

Opinions

June 16, 2023

Are Capital Markets Firms Really Benefitting From Cloud?

By Mike Powell, CEO, Rapid Addition In our earlier blogs (here and here), we discussed the factors driving increased adoption…

Opinions

June 2, 2023

What’s Driving Capital Markets’ Interest in Cloud?

By Mike Powell, CEO, Rapid Addition As we pointed out in our last blog, after an extended period of reticence…

Trading Technology

May 25, 2023

Trading in the Cloud–Has Its Time Finally Come?

By Mike Powell, CEO, Rapid Addition The structure of capital markets and how they are traded have, to a large…

Events

February 23, 2023

View From the Table Top

Rapid Addition was in South Africa last week when CEO Mike Powell and Chairman Kevin Houstoun caught up with RA’s…

Trading Technology

January 31, 2023

Platform for Growth – an Emerging Approach to Making Better Trading Technology Decisions

In this article, orginally published in Best Execution, our CEO, Mike Powell, looks at an emerging approach to making better…