Speaker Interviews

Trading Architecture Asia talks to Paul Chew at citihub 

Paul is a Partner at Citihub, a leading specialist consultancy focused on technology for the financial services industry, notably IT Strategy, Programme Delivery, Architecture and Sourcing

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Trading Architecture Asia: What do you think are the major opportunities and challenges facing senior technology professionals in the capital markets?

Paul Chew: There is tremendous opportunity for companies to leverage technology to gain competitive advantage. We are helping our clients improve capability and drive down the cost of their IT. Examples include lowering latency within their market data and order execution systems and improving efficiency through agile infrastructure.

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Trading Architecture Asia: What do you think are the greatest opportunities and challenges facing senior technology professionals in the capital markets?

Charles Jarvis: I think the greatest challenge is that technology professionals have extreme pressure to reduce costs, but they are required to process more data and more calculations than ever before. This is due to the economic climate and primarily increased regulation and complexity of trades. This especially applies to...

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Sanjay Padode has over 15 years of work experience, all of it in IT. He has worked on large projects in implementing paperless offices, office automation and workflow management for clients in securities market, stock exchanges, government, banking, infrastructure and private sector.

Here he gives an exclusive interview to Trading Architecture Asia about where he sees the industry heading.

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Trading Architecture Asia: What do you think are the greatest opportunities and challenges facing senior technology professionals in the capital markets?

Sanjay Padode: Capital markets have evolved significantly in the past decade. The opening up of emerging markets for trading coupled with the addition of various asset classes have impacted the characteristic of trading patterns worldwide.

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Trading Architecture Asia talks to Dr. David Shone, Senior Architect, Global Financial Services Industry at Sun Microsystems

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Trading Architecture Asia: What do you think are the greatest opportunities and challenges facing senior technology professionals in the capital markets?

David Shone: Adoption of smarter real-time trading strategies could deliver significant returns, but at the same time achieving and maintaining low trading latencies is a challenge.

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