May 8 2009

Middle Office Management: A Challenge and Opportunity!

Typically, equity trading brokerage firm activities are accomplished by three interfaces:
Front Office, Middle Office and Back office. Front office is responsible for taking orders from client and their execution in stock exchange. Once order is executed; it becomes a trade and handed over to Middle Office. Middle Office processes the trade, calculate commission and other [...]

May 5 2009

Understanding Liquidity Risk- Without the jargons!

Aware of this sudden noise around Liquidity risk?
 
Liquidity couldn’t have looked and sounded more critical in the past than it does now! For years and decades together companies have, irrespective of which sector they belonged to, merrily ignored the importance of cash and cash convertibility. In today’s crunch times, Banks have no guarantee that [...]

May 5 2009

Wealth Management Services-An Opportunity!

The Global financial meltdown that resulted primarily out of subprime mortgages and its subsequent impact in the global financial system has resulted in one of the most challenging financial crisis of modern times. But it has come about at a time when Global wealth has been growing at an amazing speed, both in the numbers [...]

May 3 2009

Flash Videos - an efficient tool to update and upgrade ebw workforce

How it all began?
Two years back, at ebusinessware, we started a new initiative of recording videos and covering all  important Meetings, training sessions and corporate presentations conducted by our SMEs, Sales and Marketing people. The intention was to ensure that our large pool of technical experts is able to benefit from such sessions, whether they [...]

May 1 2009

An approach to management of reference Data

The approach can help  keeping a consistent reference data repository management in the following ways :-

Defining Essence:The clear definitions of attribute is kept while receiving the data from other systems. This can be defined by the user by mapping the attributes received and attribute definition in the system. While receiving and maintaining the entities into [...]

May 1 2009

Better to reduce the bugs than to fix them

The idea of testing software reminds me of this very famous old saying “Prevention is better than cure”. The simple reason behind it is the fact that there is always high cost associated in fixing the defects. At a primary level,two things can be thought of (i) either avoid the occurrence of bugs altogether or [...]

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Apr 6 2009

Combating Money Laundering

Till some time back I was not fully aware of “Money Laundering and it’s affect on financial institutes”. But thanks to one of the projects that I was invlolved in recently. This project helped me to understand the black “Money Laundering” clouds that is constantly hovering over the financial industries of the world.
How “Money Laundering” [...]

Apr 1 2009

After the Crash, Risk Management Planning

The downward slide of financial markets and the cratering of the financial services companies involved has been greeted with regulatory imperatives ranging from calls for a college of supervisors and systemic risk regulators to demands for a new financial architecture. The terms and arguments will vary, but it is clear that change is in [...]

Mar 28 2009

Migration or Reengineering – A Choice to Make

In today’s world where technology growing so fast, and it is difficult to for most organizations to keep up with the pace it is changing. Also there are few factors like changes in business demands or technology challenges either to improve operational efficiency or to manage risk of technological growth creates a need for migration/reengineering [...]

Mar 26 2009

Managing Technology - A pain for startups.

We all know that it just takes an idea to be a successful especially in today’s world where people are ready to invest in your ideas. However with increasing competition; path to success is getting difficult day-by-day and distance between success and failure is shrinking.
Today’s entrepreneurs have much more to manage than ever before. [...]

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