Our Top Blog Articles of 2015
For my last blog article of 2015, I thought it would be appropriate to highlight our top blogs of the year. Like many firms we use Google Analytics to collect web traffic statistics, so lets see what this data shows. Website Users Lets start with a chart of users visiting our website. Showing: Monthly users to www.clarusft.com from […]
Our new Belfast office
We recently announced our expansion with a new office in Belfast. Key reasons for the choice of Belfast are; Well educated, English speaking STEM graduates, A very positive business environment, An existing financial technology cluster. Universities Belfast has two universities, Queens University of Belfast, dating back to the mid 1800s, and Ulster University a modern […]
Quantitative Finance ‘GoodReads’
Two reading lists of books relevant to quantitative finance are provided using the GoodReads platform. Often I am asked to recommend good books to help a student, colleague or customer get a better grasp of quantitative finance. Instead of ad-hoc and incomplete lists, I thought it might be useful (especially for me) to have a […]
Our Top 10 Blogs of 2014
Those of you that read my articles will know that I often write about “What the Data Shows” in the context of Swap Data Repositories and Swap Execution Facilities. Given that it is the time of year for many of us to attend Offsite Events in order to plan for 2015 and reflect on performance […]
Why are there so many fintech startups in payments?
If you follow the FinTech Start-up scene in London, you cannot fail to notice the large number of start-ups in the payments space. A quick scan of the FinTech50 2014 list shows that twelve of the fifty firms focus on payments. These are AcceptEmail, Bottomline, Clear2pay, dovetail, GoCardLess, IXaris, Klarna, Lemonway, Paymill, Pingit, The Currency Cloud and […]
Inside Baseball: Lexicon Updates for OTC Derivatives
A few months ago I was speaking with journalist Katy Burne at the Wall Street Journal. I now forget what she asked me, but whatever it was, I had covered the topic in depth in one of my recent blogs. “Don’t you read my blogs?” I asked. Katy responded “To be honest, I try to, […]
Choosing A Managed DNS Provider
Recently Endurance International Group had a major outage, taking down many websites hosted and managed by providers such as Bluehost, Hostgator and JustHost. Our site was one of those, but of even more concern was that they were also providing our DNS (Domain Name System: mapping human readable url’s such as www.clarusft.com to IP addresses […]
Think Global, Act Local
We put out a press release today announcing that Tod Skarecky is joining us to head up our US business. Please see Tod Skarecky to head US Business. To add some background around this. For a while now it has become clear to us that the US is our most important market. As we are […]
The Lean StartUp and LinkedIn
For those of you not familiar with the Lean StartUp concept, I can recommend the recent HBR article “Why the Lean Start-Up Changes Everything.” The article points out the the value of “experimentation over elaborate planning, customer feedback over intuition, iterative design” and introduces concepts such as “minimum viable product” and “pivoting“. Some of the ideas […]
CloudBees: The extra member of the team
In football, the home team supporters energise their players by showing appreciation of good plays and creating an intimidating and distracting atmosphere for the opposing team. This advantage can be so great that is likened to having an extra player in the team, referred to as the ‘twelfth player‘ in the team. In many traditional […]