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  • Designing Risk Management Platforms: A Container-Level Overview

    In today’s fast-paced markets, risk management systems are essential for institutions and individual traders alike. This post explores the architecture behind a Risk Management Platform, delving into the key components that interact to deliver a seamless experience for analysts, traders, and risk managers. We will focus on the container-level design of the platform, providing insight…

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  • Payment Infrastructure Case: Medallion Architecture Enhancement

    In the evolving landscape of payments, the need for robust, scalable, and efficient data processing frameworks is of top priority. With the rise of digital payments and the increasing complexity of transactions, traditional monolithic systems often struggle to keep pace. Enter Medallion Architecture—a modern data architecture designed to address the challenges of scalability, data quality,…

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  • Reverse Engineering a Trading Platform: A System Design Analysis and Roadmap

    In the competitive world of financial trading, platforms must be meticulously designed to handle massive data volumes, ensure real-time responsiveness, and maintain stringent security standards. This blog post will dissect a hypothetical trading platform by reverse engineering its architecture, components, and potential areas for improvement. By analyzing its structure, we’ll gain insights into how a…

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  • Streamlining Reconciliation with Databricks: A Quick Guide

    Today was an interesting process of settling gym membership fees through a legacy ERP system, as well as the constituent user stories / use case we were able to generate with LLM. As we approach mid-2024, further gap analysis has uncovered interesting reasons to move away from these systems in favour of solutions that confer…

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  • The Surveillance File: Financial Crime & Pre-Event Transaction Monitoring

    Thank you to those in my network at ThomasNet, BNY-Mellon, NATO, the City of Calgary, and former RAF analysts, as well as the tribal peoples of Kenya and villages from the far reaches of Eurasia for your support including those yet unexplored. I still believe that we can make a difference together with the open…

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  • Payment Infrastructure Case: SWIFT GPI Improvement and Annualized Cloud Cost Savings

    In the realm of global payments, the efficient and transparent exchange of funds across borders is paramount. The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) has long been a cornerstone of this process, facilitating secure communication between institutions worldwide. With the introduction of the SWIFT Global Payment Innovation (GPI) initiative, a new era of cross-border…

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  • Unlocking Business Value with dbt in Capital Markets: A Cloud-Based Approach to Cash-Flow Analysis

    In the rapidly evolving world of capital markets, the ability to analyze financial data and make informed decisions is more critical than ever. Traditional methods of financial analysis, while effective, often fall short in the face of the complexities and volatility of today’s markets. This is where dbt (data build tool) comes into play, offering…

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  • New Terraform Configuration for Capital Markets Infrastructure Management

    The morning’s prompt engineering session has been an interesting lesson in Data Operations based on stack intelligence with open stack data available within this landscape. Our case was developed around Akamai Technologies being used to manage services at RBC Capital Markets, a brownfield test-bed for idea generation that has largely been touted as a challenging…

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  • Navigating Counterparty Risk: Enhancing Trading Desk Resilience in the Era of Blockchain Innovation

    In the modern world of trading amidst cases from Robinhood, counterparty risk remains a persistent concern for trading desks and investors / family offices alike. With the advent of blockchain technology, trading desks are presented with new opportunities and challenges in managing counterparty risk effectively. In this blog post, we’ll delve into the critical importance…

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  • Modern Data Stack Redux: A New Era of Frictionless Data Solutions

    I was recently in a call over the weekend with a contact at RBC Capital Markets in the global front-office division. On top of my own market observations related to Reconfigured.io / others and attempts to slice-and-dice the DAG problem, the simplest approach to perennial topics seems to be related to specific end-points that can…

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