I have two children, currently aged 12 and 8. You may be thinking, why is that relevant to Business Value? One of the best things about children at these early ages is their curiosity, and furthermore, one of the key questions that they consistently ask when given any answer, is WHY? But they inevitably don’t […]
By Dave Sissens and Phillip Straley It’s ironic that analytics professionals often work in situations with limited data availability, poor data quality, or both. In many cases, large amounts of granular data is available but legal or security concerns make it difficult to access in a timely or secure manner. The current COVID-19 situation, with much […]
… but beware of those who prey on this new business arrangement. Since the onset of the COVID-19 Pandemic, companies worldwide have had to cope with new business and personnel strategies. These include companies of all sizes adapting to remote work technical requirements and managerial and leadership hurdles. At FNA, we’re blessed that our remote first […]
The coronavirus pandemic is going to have potentially devastating and lasting impacts on the world’s economy. The main interest is now on assessing and mitigating these impacts. To be able to do that we need to realise that today’s world economy is amazingly complex. A shock hitting one sector in the economy can quickly propagate […]
COVID-19 is having a remarkable impact on the global financial markets. In the last few days major indexes, such as S&P 500, reported unprecedented downward swings while market volatility ramped up. With even more turbulent times ahead, central clearing counterparties (CCPs) must prepare for potential failures of their participating clearing members (CMs), and potential downstream […]
This post was written by Tianzong Wang and published on Linkedin. Tianzong is a Data Scientist at FNA and currently based in Beijing, China. It is now the 6th week I have been staying at home. It seems crazy, since everyone normally goes out of their home 2-3 times per day and the outdoor exercises […]
Panic shook the financial markets this week. In times of crisis, it is often difficult to gain a systematic view and to “see the forest from the trees”, when there is an overflow of information and endless articles on individual companies, markets or asset classes. We also learned in the financial crisis that everything is […]
This article was written by Lubos Pernis and published on LinkedIn. Lubos is a Data Scientist at FNA. Italy’s economy is going to be hit hard by the Coronavirus. The economic effects of the situation in Italy are, however, unlikely to stay contained to Italy – both the demand shock and the potential supply shock […]
With more organizations closing their offices due to coronavirus, and continuing work from offsite, I want to share the most important insight that we have learned building a distributed global team of 50 over the last 5 years. It is “Focus on communications“. The main issue we face continually is effective communications when there are […]
Yesterday I made a post about the S-curves of coronavirus cases in three highly infected countries (China, South Korea and Italy), and argued that looking at the data and based on the experience in China and South Korea we should be able to contain the virus in other countries too. However, this also meant that countries […]
Financial Markets Infrastructures (FMIs) generate immense amounts of data that is valuable for many purposes ranging from optimising liquidity to enabling better risk management and generating insights about the economy. Dr. Kimmo Soramaki and Dave Sissens of FNA have recently published a paper on Future proofing the next generation of financial market infrastructures: The devil […]
Delivering impact analysis of new global payment system Financial Network Analytics (FNA) and Fnality International (Fnality) are pleased to announce that they have formed a new collaborative relationship. Fnality is building Fnality Global Payments, a new global payments system that will enable the peer-to-peer markets promised by Digital Ledger Technology (DLT) and tokenisation. The system […]
