Articles by Victor Anderson
Agile: More Mentality Than Methodology
Part two of this two-part feature looks at the business processes most suited to Agile & the need for Agile to be a company mentality.
NewOak Plumps for Quantifi’s Single Pricing and Analytics Platform
NewOak Capital is set to implement Quantifi’s integrated pricing and analytics platform to bolster its analytics capabilities across credit, FX and rates markets.
Waters Rankings 2016: Entry Deadline Extended by a Week
Entries to this year's Rankings are online only and the deadline, which has been extended by a week, is the end of business (EST), May 6.
BST European Summit 2016 Takes Shape
This year’s BST European Summit features Paula Walter, chief technology officer at Newton Investments in London and BlackRock's Ed Fishwick.
Just a Fortnight to go until NATAS 2016
This year's NATAS event focuses on the day-to-day business applications of the technologies available to industry practitioners, with the view to helping them make more judicious business decisions.
Q&A: Eagle’s Centralization Drive
Paul McInnis, head of EDM at Eagle Investment Systems, discusses how Eagle differentiates itself in an intensely competitive marketplace, and its relationship with BNY Mellon.
Adequately Agile: Capital Markets Firms Embrace Agile Methodology
While the Agile software development methodology has been around since the mid-90s, it’s really only been in the last few years that capital markets firms have started to embrace various aspects of its Manifesto.
Agile: The CIOs’ Pressure Valve
Victor Anderson argues that as pressure continues to mount on CIOs to provide examples of the value they deliver to the organization, the Agile development methodology offers them some wiggle room and might well provide them with something of a pressure…
Collaboration the Key to Unlocking Blockchain’s Potential
Victor Anderson chats to Robert Palatnick, managing director and chief technology architect of the DTCC, about the five issues the industry needs to address if Blockchain has any chance of delivering on its significant potential.
March 2016: When Is Agile Not Agile?
"Agile means different things to different organizations and some have adopted it to a greater extent than others."
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2016: Entries Extended by a Week
Entries to this year's SST Awards have been extended by a week and will now close at the end of business (EST) Friday, February 26.
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2016: Entries Close Friday February 19
Entries to this year's SST Awards are due to close at the end of business (EST) this coming Friday, February 19.
Survey: Middle- and Back-Office Operational Efficiency
Survey investigates whether financial services firms are operating obsolete middle- and back-office platforms and how such technologies might impinge their operational robustness and efficiency.
February 2016: The Market Will Decide
Victor highlights the key criteria startups must meet in order to gain a foothold in the capital markets.
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2016 Open for Entries
The Sell-Side Technology Awards 2016, WatersTechnology's fourth annual awards focusing on the third-party technology industry serving the sell side, are open for entries.
The AFTAs 2015 ─ All the Winners and Why they Won
The winners of the AFTAs 2015 were announced on the evening of December 7 at an awards dinner in New York. Here are this year's winners with write-ups about why they won.
January 2016: Creeping Along the Continuum
While it's impossible to know what the future might hold, it's almost guaranteed that upstarts will look to upend incumbents in 2016.
AFTAs 2015: Best IT Team—Morgan Stanley
The Fusion Center enables a deeper level of monitoring across the bank’s entire enterprise by leveraging new technologies and tools to correlate data in innovative ways.
AFTAs 2015: Best Infrastructure Initiative—Bank of America Merrill Lynch
The firm was able to slash more than $35 million in direct expenses and an astonishing $115 million in charges to business lines versus a target of around $47 million.
Welcome to WatersTechnology 2.0
The new-look WatersTechnology website features better content surfacing and streamlined navigation for ease-of-use.
American Financial Technology Awards 2015 ─ All the Winners
The winners of the AFTAs 2015 were announced on the evening of December 7 at an awards dinner in New York.
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2015: All the Winners and Why They Won
This year's Buy-Side Technology Awards lunch was held at Le Méridien on Piccadilly in London on Friday November 6.
Cloud as a Business Enabler
The cloud has been around the capital markets for some time, and while it might be the delivery mechanism of choice for all applications and services in the future, the industry is still coming to grips with what’s possible, feasible, cost-effective, and…
December 2015: Agile: Beneficial But Not Without Its Pitfalls
While the agile development method is not perfect, Victor says there are plenty of positives for firms that use it wisely.