Financial institutions have always been fundamentally reliant upon data and accurate record keeping. In this closing keynote of the Data Management Summit USA 2021, DXC Luxoft’s Director and Practice ...
As-a-Service models are constantly evolving and playing an increasingly larger role in many industries. So why has Capital Markets been slower in adapting aaS offerings than other industries? Ihyeeddi...
Today, all new development is cloud-native, cloud-first. It may be bold, but I suspect that by the end of 2022 the only things we see left on-premise are run-to-kill applications. With the move to clo...
As Murex in the cloud is a real step-up in class, we make it our business to help you plan and execute your cloud journey, leveraging our global leadership in Murex System Integration and cloud servic...
The mere presence of Data does not imply its worth. Organizations frequently struggle to fully capitalize on the data deluge, but with data engineering at the core, the possibilities are limitless. Di...
Currently, automotive OEM assembly plants are in a major transition process, shifting to the production of electrified vehicles. This moment calls for large scale investments and presents a great chan...
Knowledge management is a bit of a sticking point across the financial services industry.
Despite modern management solutions, it has remained a major challenge for decades. This is because o...
Customer requirements are changing rapidly in line with recent world events.
Not surprisingly, the banking industry is having to move swiftly to keep pace; no longer is it enough to keep play...
I believe that over the next decade, survival for many buy- and sell-side firms hinges on making strategic bets in two main areas. These bets also form the basis of what it takes for these firms and t...
For a decade now, the capital markets industry has been under growing pressure from revenue unpredictability, decreasing profitability and increasing regulations. Combined with the shift to lower-marg...
In light of the structural challenges confronting many financial institutions, operational needs go beyond mere simplification, no matter how radical. It’s about questioning and redesigning the core o...
The financial services industry is emerging from a decade of adjusting to the realities of life after the 2008–2010 financial crisis and the ensuing regulatory initiatives. As it does so, buy- and s...
Adverse market conditions and rising costs are reducing investment banks’ profitability. And due to the complexity of their systems, some banks spend more on running legacy applications than the same ...
COVID-19 changed business overnight with the sudden shift to remote working. Now, as the world cautiously presses the reset button, firms are asking themselves, “What are we going to do about the offi...
Having been invited to speak at the Trading Tech Summit Virtual 2021, I asked my remote audience the following question: “How fast can you bring a new financial product to market?”We’ll get to that in...
Even the largest banks and capital markets firms should look for innovative solutions to maintaining an edge and delivering more value at speed – the days of size and scale giving continued market dom...
When pressed, more enlightened decision-makers say they regard technology as a business and innovation partner. But all too often, the technology division is seen as one dimensional; simply accountabl...
BlueOptima's most recent Global Benchmark report rates developers from Eastern Europe as the highest in productivity, maintainable code and cost-effectiveness. We maintain a strong presence in the reg...
We are beginning to put the pandemic behind us and returning to a state of relative normalcy, but recovering from the damage it has inflicted on the world’s economic well-being will take much longer. ...
Virtual assistant services have come on leaps and bounds since the turn of the millennium. You can find smart speakers in almost every home in the Western world. In fact, most of us carry virtual assi...
Autonomous Driving (AD) functions and Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) perceive traffic and the environment using cameras, lidar (Light Detection and Ranging), and radar sensors. Any defects ...
Faced with costs of equity that exceed their return, regulations that narrow margins, and competition from flexible, diversified companies, financial institutions must look for options of digital inno...
Find the best developers for your particular needs.
Organizations that once shunned working from home and insisted on having their IT specialists onsite, have realized the many advantages o...
Imagine yourself in the day-to-day chaos of life with a modern family; both parents working, two children going to school or daycare and participating in at least two extra-curricular activities. Runn...
The long–term economic viability of many buy- and sell- side capital markets participants is far from certain. With the cost-cutting strategies of the last decade succumbing to the law of diminishing ...
I believe we’re witnessing the dawn of a remarkable new era.
Ever since the development of the first steam-powered automobile, vehicles have been all about the hardware. But the development o...
New rules regarding the use of artificial intelligence (AI) will affect how financial institutions operate. The changes will come into effect in 2024, but the time to act is now. Many of the stipulati...
We’ve all heard of Platform as a Service (PaaS), but what about Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS)? When should we use it? And what makes it better? While transforming and expanding, many organ...
Micro front-ends apply the principles of microservices to the front-end. Unlike a single page application, this approach promotes agility and scalability, allowing the project team to deploy autonomou...
Now more than ever, a company lives or dies on the quality and credibility of the experiences they provide for their customers. As purveyors of digital experiences, we must place ourselves firmly and ...
Business is based on trust. Or, at least, it used to be.
The notion that a potential partner’s word is their bond — personal or professional — went out with Mom’s apple pie and the company t...
A growing number of digital commentators seem to believe that the word “bank” is synonymous with “IT museum.”
Harsh? Not surprising though, when you consider that the financial sector (in ke...
Marc Prenskey’s got a lot to answer for.
Apparently, his phrase, “Digi...
I think it’s safe to say that 2020 has been a tough year all round.
Business-wise, organizations have had to adapt, rapidly, to the new world of wholesale remote working. And with disparate ...
Following this year’s extraordinary events, our retail bank partners have been asking to rapidly implement contactless solutions that minimize touch points for customers. Current circumstances aside, ...
There’s no slowing down the banking industry’s mandated transition to Interbank Offered Rate (IBOR) replacements. Despite the many difficulties posed by ongoing public health and economic concerns, ma...
When it comes to the implementation and maintenance of core banking systems, two classic architectures appear to be competing with one another in various ways – monolith versus microservice, robust ve...
This year’s challenging business environment is driving interest in Internet-of-Things and Smart Places technology. There are a lot of long-term benefits to using these technologies as business recove...
Driving innovation by tackling growing infrastructure complexity
Proving product readiness and finding issues in an SDN or NFV network solution is a bit like looking for a bent needle in a fi...
Driving innovation by tackling growing infrastructure complexity
Organizations with fully virtualized and automated software testing solutions (supported by products like SDL) benefit from m...
Smart manufacturing is the use of digitization and connectivity to increase quality, service levels and/or operational efficiency. Industry 4.0 (often referred to as the Industrial Internet of Things&...
What if you could deliver quality products and reduce time to market? Or how about increasing employee engagement while improving team productivity?
Adopting an Agile approach to working bri...
Earlier this week, one of the main global-oil-price benchmarks, the West Texas Intermediate (WTI) exchange-traded future, traded below zero as the contract for May settlement approached expiry on Mond...
Covid-19 is brand new territory for us all. Although an unknown quantity just a matter of weeks ago, virtually every country has now been affected, with hundreds of thousands of cases reported worldwi...
Millennials are on track to receive around US$30 trillion of inheritable wealth over the next 15 years.
However, Gen Y are not content to rely on Baby Boomer family fortunes. The largest adu...
CES 2020 is over, and we've collected all of the highlights from the world's biggest tech show below so you can see what Luxoft announced during the show.
With the theme "Experience the...
Controversial changes to contracting in the UK private sector are imminent. As many as 170,000 individuals working through their own companies (who would be employed if engaged directly) are expected ...
The effective management of counterparty credit risk continues to be a challenge for capital markets firms; over the past decade this has led to multiple regulations designed to keep banks’ exposures ...
Are you a data alchemist? Are your data initiatives adding millions of dollars to your company’s bottom line in cost savings or new revenue? Our webinar, The Alchemy of Data Monetization: Tu...
Large numbers of IT contractors working in the UK banking sector operate outside of IR35 regulations. But with new legislation due in April 2020, this arrangement looks set to change with consequences...
The replacement of the Interbank Offered Rates (IBORs) will have a major impact on financial services firms around the world, and regulatory agencies are pressuring institutions to begin their transit...
As part of IBOR transition, organizations must collaborate with both vendor trading and market data–systems providers to meet the challenges of adopting alternative reference rates (ARRs).
I...
For the past three years I’ve been leading Luxoft’s blockchain practice in the US. Our team has completed dozens of blockchain PoCs and pilot projects with enterprise clients in finance, healthcare, e...
Why IBOR Transition Matters
The London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) serves as the benchmark reference rate for a wide range of wholesale and retail financial products. A...
Last autumn, the UK chancellor announced that from 2020, tighter off-payroll tax rules (IR35) would be extended to cover contractors working for private firms.
The remodel...
One way or another, access to 5G data speeds will transform the majority of industries.
Telco experts say the latest technology can handle 1,000 times more traffic and that it’s 1...
The media and entertainment sector is experiencing an unprecedented wave of technological advancements that continue to disrupt and advance the industry. This situation is highlighted by recent acquis...
Blockchain is an exciting emerging technology that traverses across industries. Listen to Anthony Welfare, Managing Director of the Blockchain Practice at Luxoft, as he discusses how companies are app...
Last year, Luxoft was voted as Mexico’s best mid-sized multinational company to work for. This year, The Great Place to Work Institute again recognized Luxoft Mexico as one of the top 10 companies to ...
At Luxoft, we are honored that webOS Auto has been named as a finalist for the TU-Automotive Award for Best Mobility Product/Service.webOS Auto is an open and ideal platform for smart, connected and s...
In recent years, a lot of research has been put into making computer programs and algorithms more intelligent. As a result, machines have started demonstrating human-like capabilities like cognitive a...
A compelling data monetization plan articulates clearly how your corporate data will generate bottom line results for you. Your strategy should address four key questions:
The progressive transition away from legacy benchmark rates such as Libor is likely to be a key area of CTB expenditure for many Capital Markets organizations in the next 3 years. Benchmark transition...
By 2020, approximately 20% of the energy and utilities market will be seized by digital disruption, according to a recent report. Additionally, while 87% of executives say technology will disrupt thei...
As the need for gathering data becomes easier, companies now have to manage their data and provide a better way to uncover intelligent, actionable, and accessible insights from all their data sources...
Not too long ago, the Orange County Convention Center in Florida was bustling with attendees excited to learn more about what the future holds for technology in healthcare. The Healthcare Information ...
Vivek Jain Baraiya is a Murex Datamart Expert working at Excelian Luxoft Financial Services. He specializes in Murex Datamart and Risk Reporting modules.While working at Excelian, Vivek has been given...
Shruthi Govind is a Senior Murex Analyst working at Excelian Luxoft Financial Services. She specializes in Murex integration modules and BO confirmation/payments. While working for Excelian, Shruthi h...
Lights in your office, gas in your car, heat during the winter to keep your home toasty – for many, these are essentials to everyday life. But isn’t it frustrating when you experience a power outage, ...
Jitendriya Kumari Yagati is a Murex Integration Consultant with Excelian Canada Ltd. She previously worked as an MxML developer for strategic projects at derivIT Singapore. Can you tell us about your ...
Brexit is delivering a wave of change for UK-based finance institutions: for many, it’s move certain functions or risk detrimental losses. Brexit’s impact on business, particularly financial services ...
Identity is a very important concept that we rely on every day. From renewing a license to shopping online, your identity is necessary to make a lot of things possible. However, have you considered ho...
This year, one thing was clear: unquestionably, CES 2019 was about customer experiences in smart, connected and shared mobility. Shared mobility turns our relationship with vehicles upside down. Ownin...
Employers in the information technology (IT) field are facing a huge problem. Typically, an IT position is open for more than 12 weeks – lowering productivity and work quality by 45 and 37 percent. Le...
Devyani Lad is a Murex Datamart developer working at Excelian Luxoft Financial Services. She specializes in Murex Datamart and Oracle PL/SQL development.Can you tell us about your experience and backg...
Pradnesh Nalawade is a Consultant working at Excelian Luxoft Financial Services. He joined Excelian as a result of the acquisition of derivIT. He specializes in Datamart Reporting. Pradnesh was recent...
Bishnu Kumar is a Murex Risk Business Analyst working at Excelian Luxoft Financial Services. He joined Excelian as a result of the acquisition of derivIT. He specializes in Murex Market and Credit Ris...
Imagine a world where all your mobility needs are conveniently accessed through an app on your smartphone and delivered by autonomous vehicles…with zero emissions, zero ownership and zero accidents.Th...
Husain Bata is a Java Developer working at Excelian Luxoft Financial Services. He joined Excelian as a result of the acquisition of derivIT; he specializes in Java application design and development, ...
The world of healthcare is changing – and we’re ready for it.Appian, a leading low-code and business process management (BPM) platform provider, is now working in a global partnership with Luxoft to d...
Leveraging blockchain to enable faster and more secure data transfers has become one of the top technology trends for airlines, hotels, car rental companies and other travel providers. Using blockchai...
Guess what? You don’t have to own a vehicle anymore, and soon you won’t need to drive one.We’re experiencing a monumental shift that will change the way we view on-road transportation. The term “mobil...
The importance of companies reaching out to make a difference is helping to bring millions of people out of the margins of poverty across the globe. It’s one of the reasons why economic inequality amo...
The more things change, the more they stay the same.With the still-growing regulatory and reporting requirements of MiFID II to the challenges of Brexit IT migrations, resources in IT and compliance f...
Visal Sethi joined Excelian’s Consultant Academy in January 2013 and is now a Senior Consultant for the company. He has been able to work in multiple offices across the globe, including Paris, Toronto...
Imagine if your vehicle never broke down: No expensive repairs paid on the spot, and no unexpected pit stops to slow you down when zooming from point A to point B. Now imagine if the same vehicle didn...
Goodbye, waiting – hello, instantaneous.In the travel industry, consumer expectations generally center around brand authenticity, personalized experiences, reliable on-demand services and the removal ...
Andrew Madgwick joined Excelian Australia in October 2012, already possessing some Murex knowledge. After working on a high profile migration for 2 years he relocated to Paris and worked as a back off...
You hear about it all over the news: companies that are victims to stolen data, sabotaged applications, unauthorized code and other digital misdemeanors. Believe it or not, a large chunk are due to in...
More than 40% of software developers admit they would consider taking a job where they write code that may be used for unethical purposes.While this stat from Stack Overflow’s 2018 survey may alarm yo...
How is the automotive industry responding to digitalization?Where we last left off, we began talking about the strengths of open source in the automotive industry, and why it’s so important for OEMs t...
Joining Excelian in 2008 straight from university, Rushmi Watson has worked for clients in London, Germany and France. She has had the opportunity to work in many areas of Murex and grow into one of o...
As the automotive industry speeds forward, OEMs are realizing at an increasing rate how important it is to keep up with the digital wave. Switching to user-centric designs with a human-machine interfa...
Thanks for tuning in to Luxoft’s newest issue of Tech Spark, the Data Issue! With our Tech Spark podcast series, you can listen to great insights no matter where you are! Your time is precious to us, ...
Have you ever considered car manufacturers able to become software companies?The modern automotive industry is undergoing a sea change. As the famous quote by Marc Andreessen goes, “Software is eating...
We all know that technology is evolving at a rapid rate, and it’s changing the way we live, work and play. Listen to Terry Blanck from our CTO office discuss disruptive technologies that are sure to h...
Think about the various futuristic cars that companies are rolling out today. They deliver stunning user experiences that just a decade ago we could’ve only dreamed of. However, with increased complex...
Imagine how banking could change in just a few years. Will we be greeted by robots when we walk through the door? Will banking establishments even still exist? Or will we be doing everything from our ...
Calling those in the travel industry! Are you interested in increasing the customer satisfaction of your tired travelers while making processes easier overall?The truth is, communicating and doing bus...
Have you ever wondered why well-known blockchain systems seem to be more reliable than others?If we consider some of the oldest and most popular blockchain networks, such as Bitcoin or Ethereum, most ...
“Function, emotion and perfect attention to detail are the key ingredients to a user-friendly UI design.”-Isabell Seeger, Lead Designer of UX Automotive, LuxoftWhen’s the last time you checked your em...
We at Luxoft are helping change the lives of others…one event at a time.In the latest report by the Responsible Business Forum, an organization which has been focusing on addressing CSR in Poland for ...
Joining the Murex Academy in July 2017, Sarah Jackson previously worked at a large bank where she obtained skills in the Murex practice. After a year, she heard about Excelian through a co-worker and ...
It’s time to get your blue on! April is Autism Awareness Month, so join us in raising awareness for this widespread disorder, which has steadily grown over the last two decades. In fact, the lat...
Healthcare disruption is happening now, and businesses must adapt and advance through this ‘epidemic’! Going to HIMSS18 was a perfect way to engage with the healthcare industry and witness healthcare ...
Today, big data applications are everywhere. Among them are recommendation systems that have already been around for over a decade. These systems make applicable guesses – sometimes unexpected but in ...
The final episode in the Healthcare podcast series focuses on which technologies can be used to improve the experience of the patient and enhance preventative care. Join Sam Mantle, Director of Health...
Where is the medical devices industry headed? – My 5 takeaways from the Software Design for Medical Devices Global eventJust last month, Luxoft attended the only international medical device gathering...
Digital is transforming the risk and regulatory landscape. Are you applying new technologies across your organisation to help to reduce risk? Join experts Stefan Negrila, Global Head of the Regulator ...
Won Youn is an Excelian veteran, with 6 years of Murex consulting under his belt. However, his career didn’t start in financial services – prior to joining Excelian, Won served as a squadron lea...
The second episode in the series focuses on which technologies can be applied in order to transform the workforce environment in the Healthcare & Life Sciences industry. Join Sam Mantle, Director of D...
Join experts Stefan Negrila, Global Head of the Regulatory Practice at Excelian and Archit Mishra, Senior Analyst at Everest Group as they explore the regulatory landscape and discuss how to survive t...
The automotive industry is changing, fast. The adjustment from driver to passenger is pushing car manufacturers to alter their focus from pure mechanics to user experience – emphasizing the comfort of...
Join Sam Mantle, Managing Director Digital Enterprise and Rich Pilling, Director of Luxoft Digital as they discuss where the Healthcare & Life Sciences industry currently is on its digital transformat...
The revolution is here, and the demand for energy is not decreasing - requiring a way to easily meet that demand. Imagine if you could share energy with your neighbor - and even get paid for it! Learn...
Excelian’s team in Australia have a great reputation for delivery and our talented junior hires are integral to our continued success. Before joining a client delivery team, they attend our Academies ...
Heads up, automotive manufacturers! The development of the future car is increasing speed – and you need to be ready for the impact. As digitalization increases to adapt to customer demand, you must a...
How did we get here so fast?Last year was the year of AI. 2017 began with the anticipation of organisations jumping on the technological bandwagon to implement nascent technologies as new, innovative ...
There is a lot of confusion in the market in defining what “digital” means. Where does the digital journey start? How does the business-outcome-based model work in the current environment? Listen to t...
33% of planned activities within the Energy industry are not completed, losing billions of dollars a year - and it's time to change. Join Luxoft's Patrick Corcoran, Director, External Relations, Dmitr...
Are you plugged into the smart grid? If you’re not, you might want to start thinking about it.Forecasting energy consumption and keeping a balance between generation and consumption has been a deep-se...
Energy - the oldest industry in the world. Could you imagine a world with no energy to power your phone or home? Join Luxoft's Patrick Corcoran, Director, External Relations, Dmitry Vilchinsky, Direct...
When the first computers emerged, it was hard to imagine anyone would ever think to combine quantum mechanics with hardware. But this new wave of computers has everyone talking – and they’re hyped to ...
Wake up!It’s time to stop dreaming and start applying. Blockchain is here – and it’s ready for the PoC stage.In my previous blog, I explained how security should be a factor when determining which typ...
Is your company’s information security plan successful? Are you confident in your security practices? Maybe what you’re missing is a consistent security culture to tie it all together – which could be...
Are you ready to face the automotive revolution? It’s time to change gears – because the auto industry is rolling into a disruptive change that shakes its very foundation. Key Human-Machine Interface...
Our relationship with our cars is changing fast and comprehensively. Emerging driver assistance functions, in-vehicle infotainment and mobility services, as well as driver-to-car and car-to-infrastruc...
“Don't be afraid to try new things. And don't be afraid to fail…everything is a learning curve.”Toni Marshall is a Director within the Murex practice at Excelian Luxoft Financial Services. She has bee...
Is your business truly ready for the future? Are you falling behind the competition but don’t know why? The truth is, the future is now – and it won’t wait around for you to change. It’s time to get a...
Okay, blockchain – it’s time to get real.As you may have seen in my previous blog, blockchain has definitely been overly hyped for a while. Although many companies are now moving to the proof of conce...
When it comes to how we use vehicles, we’re fast approaching a fork in the road: a big, digital-society-sized diversion caused by changing consumer expectations for highly personalized, intuitive, and...
Luxoft has established itself as a leader in delivering complex IT solutions that go beyond client expectations. This is possible thanks to the perfect match of growing nearshoring capabilities, next-...
Digital transformation is becoming a bit of a cliché in many circles. Change happens. And often it’s digital, there or thereabouts, but it’s hardly heart-stopping or revolutionary.But, when it comes t...
In my previous blog about what “security” actually means, I explained the two types – holistic and contextual – and why they matter to your business. Continuing on our journey, I’ll now dig a bit deep...
Did you know? Computers have eyes, too.While still an emerging technology, computer vision is shaking up industries in new, innovative ways. It aids adopters in anything from making movies to monitori...
In recent years, technological advancements through the Internet of Things (IoT) have opened doors to new, smart ways to do sports. We can drastically improve the way we practice and play, even compet...
The workplace of today and the workplace two decades ago differ in monumental ways. In the past, workers sat at their desks all day, communicating via SQL interfaces and fax machines. Now with modern ...
On August 22, 2017 Excelian, Luxoft Financial Services hosted Women Who Code in London to inspire women to start a career in the tech world. A range of women from students, academics, technology entre...
I hope you’ve enjoyed our journey in learning more about how blockchain is changing the way of the future. Hopefully now you know what it is and why business leaders should be adopting this new techno...
You see them everywhere – Fitbits, wearable trackers, and other health and diagnostic applications – that make monitoring your health easy and manageable. And in your doctor’s office, you find automat...
You hear it in the news – security breaches and new information-stealing cyberattacks are becoming more and more common. The year 2016 had a 556% increase from 2015, with over 4 billion records leaked...
On Tuesday 28th June over 100 supporters from Bank of Ireland, Clifford Chance and Excelian Luxoft, made their way to Docklands Sailing & Watersports Centre (DSWC) for a fun evening of dragon boat rac...
LUI AR – A necessary humanlike driving companion that’s reliable, honest and transparentThe autonomous vision is more prevalent in the automotive industry now more than ever, and is continuing to move...
Excelian recently sent a team of developers to attend the Devoxx conference in London. Devoxx is a two day event “by developers for developers” that discusses the latest trends and technologies in the...
I hope you’ve enjoyed our journey into the world of blockchain thus far. Hopefully now you know what this revolutionary technology is all about, due to my previous blog outlining the fundamentals of b...
The law industry is drastically changing.Previously, it was extremely difficult to meet the requirements to start a career as a lawyer for big enterprises. The positions required time-consuming (and e...
Excelian’s Murex Academy provides the opportunity, every quarter, for talented, technically minded individuals to train as consultants working in the financial sector on Murex projects. Murex is regul...
Las Vagas, NV USA July 17th – July 21stCome one, come all! Here at Luxoft we’re excited to demonstrate cutting edge technology that stands out from the rest. If you’re in Las Vegas from July 17-21, th...
Technology is constantly changing – now more than ever. As a result, organizations must address digital disruption’s accelerated pace in order to efficiently access and implement surging flows of data...
We are pleased to present 'Blockchain: The Luxoft Perspective', the find episode in the series of Blockchain podcasts from Luxoft. In this podcast two of our Blockchain experts - James Bowkett, Blockc...
You’d better believe it – the value of assets managed under Robo Advisory and Wealth Management is predicted to reach nearly $3.7 trillion by 2020. Robo Advisory epitomises the successful implementati...
Blockchain – Maybe you’ve heard of it, or maybe you have no clue on what it is. Either way, I’m here to shed some light on the data structure that’s disrupting the world of financial services and beyo...
June 25-28th Seattle, Washington USAIf you are traveling to attend Future Stores in Seattle, make sure to take some time to enjoy the city while you’re here. As someone who has lived in Seattle for ov...
We are pleased to present ‘Why should business leaders care about Blockchain?’, the second episode in a series of Blockchain podcasts from Luxoft. In this podcast two of our Blockchain experts - James...
Starting this year, major project management software company Atlassian hosted their first annual European Summit event, where teams, Atlassian partners and enterprise clients came from around the wor...
We are pleased to present ‘The Fundamentals of Blockchain’, the first in a series of Blockchain podcasts from Luxoft. In this podcast two of our Blockchain experts - James Bowkett, Blockchain lead, an...
Artificial intelligence (AI) is real. It’s no longer a mysterious concept solely associated with science fiction. Attending Embedded Vision Summit 2017 solidified my thoughts on AI and the community t...
In January 2016, the Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB), or unofficially as some have termed ‘Basel IV ‘- the long expected final version of the revised market risk framework, was published...
With 2017 well underway, it seems like a good point to pause, reflect and take stock. In the past year, we have experienced historic changes, setting a new precedent. Brexit, the Trump election and 0%...
A growing part of the overall enjoyment of the driving experience comes from how smoothly a driver is able to control and interact with the in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) system. Drivers intuitively wa...
.We live in the era of the platform economy. Now, all the great hardware and software vendors have introduced their analytics platform, each one designed to solve a particular analytical need. Under t...
As part of our Fintech theme, we interviewed some of the Blockchain start-ups that are part of the disruptive movement taking hold in finance. We wanted to separate the trends from the hype and find o...
With discussion around the subject of automated driving gathering pace, the development of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) looks set to become the ‘next big thing’ in automotive electronics...
Our world is undergoing a massive transformation. Artificial Intelligence, or AI, has taken the world by storm, so much that futuristic self-driving cars might become the norm more quickly than you th...
CryptoMountain - what? Sounds like a place where Swiss private bankers sit on their customer's gold, maybe something like Smaug's lair in the Hobbit's saga.These were my first thoughts when I heard ab...
Luxoft’s recent visit to National Retail Foundation (NRF) “Retail’s Big Show” event in New York City showed that the buzz about new technologies and innovations in Retail is as strong as ever. What’s...
In January 2017 we were given the opportunity to travel from Sydney to London to participate in the ‘Excelian Consultant Academy’. The program lasted for three weeks and included training in consultan...
Similar to the industrial revolution that forever changed industry, the Farm to Fork value chain (agriculture through food retailing) is on the precipice of its own revolution, but this one relies les...
Journeys in Data Science Part I: Starting Down a Path to Creating Your Own Amazon Go!Don’t you just hate paying for things? Well Artificial Intelligence can help you avoid doing just that! Recently Am...
Client ProblemOur client is a financial institution that requires pre-deal visibility of their credit exposures in respect to the counterparties it deals with. Credit limits are set for each counterpa...
Excelian recently opened a new delivery centre in Warsaw, Poland, which is now fully operational with a team of Murex consultants with experience in core technology, financial services, Murex’s MX.3 p...
During the last ICP training one of the trainees asked me: “So, ok. You are telling us the cool stuff, unicorns and fairies. But in the real life we have to deal with a zillion of real-life-problems. ...
Disrupting the Travel Industry – living in the micro-moments. Data science and advanced analytics in the travel industry is an essential component for market segmentation and revenue generation. Howev...
One of the industries that stands to most benefit from the proliferation of sensors, connectivity and devices is retail. Driven by a growing amount of connected devices serving an increasing number of...
Server virtualisation provides many IT infrastructure management benefits, since it can run and manage multiple applications and operating systems on the same physical server. In theory, this allows i...
Big data has moved on from being a buzzword in the annual waves of technology hype, and now information management is becoming an important discipline across Financial Services. This article looks at ...
On 18th August, we had the pleasure of attending the 11th annual Risk Australia conference in Sydney. The event was well attended with a mix of risk practitioners and investment professionals from the...
The transformation of how we live, work and play through the Internet of Things is rapidly expanding to how we travel, not just in our cars but when we fly, take a train or even grab a bus. At Luxoft,...
As part of our partnership with DataStax we were very kindly invited to exhibit at the DataStax Day conference in London this week. A lot of the sessions centred around one of the major new features o...
As the team and I tame the blockchain technology landscape, it is becoming increasingly apparent the platforms often serve quite different purposes. I am not referring to the endless debate on whether...
The Ethereum Dao hard fork was completed 30 minutes ago in response to the Dao hack that was discovered on June 17th.The action needed to be taken before late July (the specific date moved due to coun...
A new methodology called Progressive Web Application is here. It promises to help bridge the gap between performance of Web and Native Apps, and may finally provide the solution for building fast and ...
In today’s competitive marketplace, a company’s ability to attract talented individuals with a suitable range of tech and business skills is more critical than ever. Excelian is confident ...
According to the Theory of Needs by David McClelland, there are three main drivers for motivation: a need for achievement, need for affiliation and need for power. Let’s see what these needs are about...
London, UK, July 26, 2016-- Calypso Technology, a leading provider of capital markets software, have announced an agreement which formally recognises Excelian as an official Calypso partner.This agree...
In order to provide an accurate estimation of a project, it is necessary to take into account several variables: Duration (timeline)Change (RFC)People (project team)Quality (defects)Critical resources...
DevOps (Development and Operations) is a movement that became a hot topic in Software Development world and media (from big news outlets to niche publications). How did it all start and evolved? What ...
The concept of outsourcing has been around for decades, but in recent years it has become an integral aspect of many IT implementations, particularly as the pressures associated with economically stre...
Excelian, Luxoft’s Financial Services practice, have announced a partnership with DataStax, a leading provider of database software for cloud applications, to deliver enterprise and mobile appli...
On Thursday 19th May over 100 Excelian and Luxoft staff made their way to Docklands Sailing & Watersports Centre (DSWC) for a fun evening of dragon boat racing, all in aid of raising money for...
In 2015, Excelian was engaged to replace a critical end-of-day (EOD) and intraday rates marking system at a prominent Australian investment bank. Migration to a big data solution was not a foregone co...
Luxoft Holding, Inc announced results for the three months and a full financial year ended March 31, 2016. Revenue for the full financial year ended March 31, 2016 increased to $650.8 million, up 25.0...
Excelian are pleased to announce that we have successfully supported another Murex migration for a large European asset manager based in London.This project began just under two years ago with the aim...
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Once upon a time I had to work with a project team that was supposed to use Scrum. The very first thing I discovered was their motivation, or rather their lack of it. Some developers left the project ...
Excelian, a part of Luxoft Holding, is pleased to announce that DEBRA has become the company’s official UK charity partner. DEBRA is a national charity that supports individuals with Epidermolys...
It may not be news that the use of Hadoop technology has significantly increased due to Hadoop’s inherent ability to integrate and process large amounts of heterogeneous data sources and identify beha...
For some time now I’ve been a part of the scrum.org organization, which provides high-quality Scrum education and helps development teams and customers to maximize value by using the Scrum framework. ...
Luxoft Holdings, Inc. have released the financial results for first three quarters of 2015. The results for three and nine months ended December 31, 2015 are once again very positive, marked by respec...
As you know, in Agile it is very important to inspect and adopt your process, and metrics can give you the necessary information to track your way and approach to the necessary destination. There not ...
For many years now, analysts have been telling us that we are on the verge of a new age in Business Intelligence – the Age of Insight. Since the dawn of data processing, companies have toiled to turn ...
What were the main trends in Information Security in 2015? What to expect from 2016? How can Luxoft help you protect personal and company data? Learn the answers from the new Luxoft Podcast episode.
It’s fair to say that I’ve created a few data warehouses in my time and retired a few more. Not all of my efforts were shining successes – but to be fair, Gartner and others studiously report that nea...
Luxoft Holding, Inc. (NYSE:LXFT), a leading provider of software development services and innovative IT solutions to a global client base, will announce its financial results for the three and nine mo...
Luxoft Holdings, Inc. have released the financial results for first two quarters of 2015. The results are very positive, with an increase in revenue of 29.1% year over year, now amounting to $161.5 mi...
Luxoft continues to support charitable organizations as a part of its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) strategy aimed at making the world a better place. The 2015 Edition of the Christmas Trees F...
In ‘Casablanca’ (which is what you would call ‘a movie for the ages’) Humphrey Bogart famously utters “I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.” The future of that particular relations...
London is consolidating its position on the global Fintech scene, but a shortage of talent is becoming a major hurdle for Britain’s tech capital. A company’s ability to attract individuals...
Encryption isn't the Enemy - Lack of it is the Threat Last month, a hacker stole personal information and photos of more than six million children after breaking into the computer records of a educati...
Here's what you need to remember from this year's European edition of the Martech conference.Why is Martech growing?Why are Martech/AdTech and other technologies in the field of marketing growing so r...
How did Mache come into existence? Financial Services, in particular Investment Banks, have always had a heavy reliance on large scale compute grids with a typical compute grid ranging from 2,000 up t...
We all know that there are 3 roles defined in Scrum: Development Team Member, Product Owner, and Scrum Master. There is no doubt that Development Team Member is a full time job, and that Product Owner...
Over a period of 24 hours on November 21-22, more than 200 participants in 4 different locations built apps with the latest Beacon technology to help make their cities smarter. Working shoulder to sho...
How many times have you needed to locate a colleague with experience in a particular field, tool or technology? To make the search easier, I’d like to introduce the Luxoft Skill Finder add-on for Conf...
Above: Jay Chin presenting at Elastic{ON}Tour London, 3rd November.Elastic{ON}Tour was a sell-out Elastic user conference held in London on November 3, 2015. It represents the largest gathering of Ela...
I humbly submit that it's time to improve that.According to a study by McKinsey & Company, nearly 20% of all global marketing budgets, or about $200 billion, is poorly used.The reason for this state o...
In June 2015, Excelian together with Luxoft began a partnership with Bottomless Closet. The New York based organisation's main focus is to offer an innovative approach to workforce preparation for dis...
If we look at the storming team, we think things are falling apart because the team is no longer getting along as they used to, but rather disagreeing on both petty and important issues. Meetings are ...
Tired from participating in "agile rocket science" webinars? Looking for fresh ideas? Want to present new approaches for leading agile teams? We want to present you a space to discuss experi...
We have recognised that the current trend of reducing IT expenditure and maximising utilisation of existing infrastructure has driven some of the most interesting innovations seen in the last ten year...
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In marketing research, better results were often obtained in the past from behavior contrary to the findings of analytics. In such conditions the ‘Mad Man’ had room to maneuver, and the ‘Math Man’ had...
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Being a global company across continents and cultures, Luxoft is always perfecting the art of teamwork. As an IT solutions provider, Luxoft teams work together to create innovation on a daily basis. I...
B2B (Business to Business) marketing has undergone a greater metamorphosis in the last few years than B2C (Business to Customer) marketing.The strength of personal charm wears offVirtually every B2B b...
Customer Experience for marketers has become a hot topic. What is and what is not CX?The misunderstandings around CXIf we assume that the relationship between human beings and brands is like a relatio...
Does the customer want to get project estimates quickly and with minimal investment in writing detailed requirements? We ask for rough estimates almost everywhere – when we order custom furniture, whe...
The Lean Kanban Russia conference highlights new ways to manage 21st century creative and knowledge-based businesses. The conference is for anyone who has to make decisions and manage risks, especiall...
What does Open Source look like in 2015?Open source has evolved significantly since the early Linux days, having transitioned to a more professional approach. Gone are the days when the model consiste...
It’s common to hear the phrase “Marketing has not changed – only the tools are different.”Are you sure?Chances are, you are using technology right now – listening to music on Spotify, watching movies ...
The Krakow Business Run is an annual corporate charity relay race that takes place across 6 different Polish cities. This year Luxoft was again one of the primary organizers and sponsors in Krakow and...
Scrum is founded on empirical process control theory, or empiricism. Empiricism asserts that knowledge comes from experience and making decisions based on what is known. Scrum employs an iterative, in...
The truth is that most marketers specialize in solving problems like "Does this color fit with the overall scheme?" This approach is good and very bad at the same time It’s good, because a &...
20th of July, 9:40am, Heathrow Airport. I must admit I still felt rather woozy due to the early start but I was excited to board the 7 hour flight to John.F.Kennedy airport, New York, ready for my thr...
In most financial applications there is a wealth of interconnected data from various different sources. With the move toward web based platforms, JSON has become the ubiquitous data transfer format pr...
One day you find out that you have to start a new team. It’s exciting, because you have a chance to begin from scratch and make a fresh start. However, it is not as easy as it looks.According to Bruce...
Container orchestration tools are making the management, operation and resiliency of compute workloads significantly easier. Orchestration tools are becoming increasingly data centre aware. The idea o...
In the first part of this article you learned some specific terminology including: Sprint, Scrum Master, Product Owner, Definition of Done, and so on. This terminology is related to the Scrum framewor...
A great night was had by all at the Excelian and Luxoft UK summer reception at Merchant Taylors' Hall in London last night (July 2nd). The event was part of the Luxoft Global Connect to celebrate Luxo...
IntroductionDeveloping custom software to support business processes can be a costly affair. Developers often make mistakes because they misunderstand the business requirements. This results in defect...
The post describes an exercise that can be proposed for meetings participants to perform in order to make the meeting more effective.Before conducting official business at a meeting, it is usually hel...
I'm happy to announce that Luxoft Agile Practice has successfully passed accreditation for a new Agile training, “Agile Team Facilitation.” Now this training is available to Luxoft employees intereste...
Interview passed and four days’ notice to pack up all of my things and move to Paris!With a cocktail of emotions and a long list of things to do; I set off preparing for the move. A different co...
Imagine playing a video game with such incredible graphics and inspiring dynamics that, before you knew it, hours had passed. You know that at the end of the game your hero will meet a final foe, who ...
Every year Luxoft takes part in the biggest Agile conference in Russia – AgileDays. This year it will take place on 19th – 20th of March in Moscow. And we hold the honor to be the Platinum partner of ...
A famous quote of Derek Bok says: “If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.”We at Luxoft appreciate the role of continuous education in raising the bar of quality of our services. This is w...
Luxoft Holding, Inc (NYSE:LXFT), a leading provider of software development services and innovative IT solutions to a global client base, today announced that it has acquired Excelian, a privately hel...
Some time ago we met a person from our client’s management team. She wanted to run a new initiative in her program and she asked us to help with Scrum adoption, because she liked certain principles of...
A couple of weeks ago I was asked about tools that can help to setup and/or enhance collaboration between distributed team members. I wish to share a summary list of these instruments with you since d...
Excelian is pleased to announce the successful migration of a Murex 2.11 environment to Murex 3.1 for a leading bank in London. Sourav Basu, Senior Consultant at Excelian, gives an overview of the pro...
Firstly, please can you explain the overall project that Excelian completed?Sourav Basu: The project scope covered the migration of the client’s Commodities business from Murex 2.11 to Murex 3.1 as pa...
Excelian is pleased to announce the successful upgrade of both Openlink Endur and Oracle instances at a global leading bank within the Financial Services sector. Benjamin North, Senior Principal Consu...
A South-African based Insurance company recently implemented a new operating model across the business and engaged Excelian to implement Murex’s MX.3 platform as the new...
This is a review on the team facilitation training that was conducted by Agile Practice in December. The post provides general information about this event and tips on facilitation techniques. Several...
A large investment bank in the Asia Pacific region recently partnered with Excelian to implement Murex’s MX.3 across a wide range of asset classes traded by its Australian entity. Stefaan Dholla...
Excelian are pleased to share the Q1 2015 edition of the Technology Spark magazine with you, our magazine on technology trends in Financial Services.This edition focuses on Cloud Computing adopti...
Excelian is pleased to announce that it has completed a successful upgrade of Mx 2.11 to Mx 3.1 for a major Financial institution headquartered in Asia Pacific. Graham Loveitt, Partner at Excelian dis...
Excelian is pleased to announce the successful completion of a project to extend the use of Calypso to support Future and Bond Options for a leading bank in the UAE region. Prakash Anthony at Excelian...
Recently I participated in an informative and enjoyable Luxoft training session on “The Art of Public Speaking,” and I would like to share with you a useful framework we learned about that day. The fr...
As new technologies appear on the market and innovation becomes the best winning strategy, companies have to hire the right talent to stay on top of the game. The problem of talent shortage in technol...
Excelian is pleased to announce that it recently partnered with the London Capital Markets arm of a major financial institution to provide a solution to EU trade reporting requirements.The European Ma...
A softer side of team building is in motion at Luxoft with the launch of Luxoft’s Euro Soccer Championship 2014. An expert in AGILE Methodology, Luxoft is expanding its team building strategies to the...
Why should we know about Spring internals? It works! So use it and enjoy! However, as always, in order to use Spring in most efficient way, you must know, what is under the fork. Only in case you real...
As the premier High Performance Computing (HPC) consultancy in the Financial Services sector, Excelian conducts a technology benchmark on the adoption of HPC technologies in the market every year. Thi...
As a result of Excelian’s continued commitment and investment in the United States, the company announced today that it has been granted permission to apply for E2 visas for British Nationals to...
The Kanban method is becoming very popular in software development. Luxoft is trying to follow this trend and establish the use of Kanban process in teams where Scrum or other Agile methods are proble...
So where did my career start… Well the answer to that was digging a 6 foot deep fish pond in a friend’s garden. Yes, after I graduated from Loughborough University back in 2008 studying I...
Agile is all about simplicity. Those who practice Agile methods long enough are guided by one of the twelve principles of Agile: "Simplicity - the art of maximizing the amount of work not done - ...
Excelian are pleased to announce the successful delivery of Norddeutsche Landesbank’s (NORD/LB’s) recent Murex upgrade using the Fast Evolutive Migration (FEM) approach. The FEM appro...
When moving along a professional path there are certain periods or better to say cross-roads when several questions can come to mind:What position would I like in a couple of months or years?What skil...
Ants are insects that can communicate with their team members by leading traces that they leave when find food or anything else useful. Ants are very effective in this way of communication and we can ...
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Excelian are pleased to announce that it recently delivered another successful Murex Binary upgrade for a major financial institution in Australia.The client went from version 3.1.21 to 3.1...
As a part of the graduate program, I was chosen to go to the United Kingdom. It was a great moment for me as I was getting an opportunity to travel internationally and visit London, which is the &lsqu...
Excelian is pleased to announce that as the managed service provider for Rabobank’s compute grid infrastructure, we have successfully deployed Logscape as the monitoring platform of choice acros...
7 C’s of Successful CoachingDuring coaching it is important for a coach to follow positive scenarios and use proved best practices. E.g. I found the following 7 C’s approach recommended by business co...
May the 30th was not only the 50th anniversary of the Beatles’ single ‘Love Me Do’ reaching #1 on US charts, but it was also the day that something very important happened for the me...
Amazon recently held the London leg of its Amazon Web Services (AWS) Summit in the majestic and the humongous ExCel Arena and I was lucky to attend it. I had heard about various cloud computing platfo...
Phase 0 (optional)This phase mostly concerns the assessment of the project’s current processes and roles. The Scrum Master can assist a coach in the audit by providing relevant and detailed informatio...
Excelian was recently engaged by a leading international clearing house that clears a broad range of asset classes, including securities, exchange-traded derivatives, commodities, energ...
Luxoft was recently accredited as an MTO (member training organization) of International Consortium for Agile. ICAgile develops education tracks and learning objectives for its members' training class...
Excelian is pleased to announce that it recently delivered three successful projects surrounding the European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR) changes that came into force on 16th August 2012. ...
Modularity - the ultimate agile toolModularity is key to maintainable code. By separating a code base into clear defined modules, we can better isolate code changes. In this way we can more safely mak...
During the past 2 years, cloud computing has grown considerably and Gartner predicts that global IaaS revenues will surpass $US9bn this year. AWS and Rackspace launched Australian datacentres last yea...
Select Information From SQLTrainer Where Answer = True;As you can see, the Graduate Academy covered Struct...
What coaching is and what it is notCoaching is about developing a person’s skills and knowledge, so that their job performance and effectiveness improves, leading to the achievement of organization ob...
Excelian is pleased to announce that it recently completed a successful upgrade of Murex's MX3.1 platform from 3.1.22 to 3.1.29 utilising the new MXplus methodology developed by Murex for binary upgra...
Excelian announced today that it had successfully completed a complex two-phase project at a major UK bank for the implementation of a new Murex trading platform, MX.3, Murex’s award winning, cr...
The commodities domain encompasses a product set that is fragmented by asset class: base metals, precious metals, oil and refined products, gas, power, agricultural commodities and softs. The k...
Excelian is delighted to announce the official opening of its new office in Toronto, Canada.The announcement marks the latest stage in Excelian’s rapid expansion as the firm continues to invest ...
The fourth week of our training program saw us embark on our soft skills training. However after this week I believe it would be more appropriate to rename this week as life skills training. We learnt...
Sprint Zero is becoming a very popular practice in the organizations where Agile and Scrum are used. Sprint Zero is not a part of the official Scrum framework, where it is mandatory to have a working ...
BackgroundHaving arrived at the world renowned Royal Institution, we made our way to the library and eagerly settled at a table, surrounded by hardbacks as old as the wisdom within. The room soon fill...
As Risk and Counterparty Credit Risk white paper, banks are willing to buy or customize vendor risk system products. The advantages of buying a vendor solution include; established methodology an...
The challengeThe challenge was to process a 3GB text input file containing four types of letters: A, C, T and G, and find a specified sequence in this file in shortest possible time. The boundary cond...
Client ProblemOur client is a financial institution that requires pre-deal visibility of their credit exposures in respect to the counterparties it deals with. Credit limits are set for each counterpa...
As part of the leadership academy, we had a very rare opportunity to meet and listen to, “the world’s greatest living explorer” Sir Ranulph Fiennes. His talk was focused around human...
The financial crisis, following the demise of Lehman and bailout of a number of high profile banks, provided the impetus to move the lightly regulated OTC derivative contracts from bilateral clearing ...
Whilst some are of the opinion that alcohol may not be the best influencer when trying to come up with sensible ideas, our technical consulting team unknowingly tested the theory and stumbled across s...
It was the 2nd of December and we all congregated in the Excelian kitchen. People were meeting for the first time, exchanging tales of where they had come from, some as far as New York and Toronto. Ot...
There is now, the first Professional Scrum Trainer at Luxoft accredited by Scrum.org. Luxoft now offers Professional Scrum Master training to organizations and individual students.Luxoft is proud to a...
In the LTS webcast on Januari 29th I discussed why modularity is important, and how OSGi canbe used to create modular cloud application with Java.The case for modularityModularity is far fr om a new c...
The "Success Well" idea is based on two main underlying principles, both of which are essential for leadership & management and explain why Agile has become such a powerful idea. Agile as an...
DatacenterDynamics CONVERGED Conference, London 2013, ExCel ICC. The forum provided an overview of the current state of affairs and insights into the future of Data Center design, deployment and the s...
Main topic of this post is the mechanics of the one-day Agile process simulation, in continuation to the previous article, where I tried to advertise a value of Agile simulation workshops. However, fo...
(image credits: Kenny Louie)Does your team work in a cubical world? Do you want to improve its effectiveness and make team members life happier? Then take a sit. This blog post will tell you how to ma...
One of the largest energy companies in the world recently partnered with Excelian to deliver a daily fully diversified Value-at-Risk. The company provides innovative integrated energy solutions and op...
It was my pleasure speaking at the first LTS event last week about the complexity and issues related to cross device mobile development from the perspective of a Java/JVM developer.When we created Cod...
Excelian today announced that a leading financial institution in Asia Pacific had successfully outsourced its testing stream to Excelian for the delivery of its recent Murex upgrade to MX.3 using the ...
A web presence is a key means of interacting with customers, partners, suppliers, and many other stakeholders. In today’s rapidly changing, multichannel, and multidevice world, companies struggle to u...
More clients are asking us to run their projects following an agile methodology. In 2012 37% of tracked projects within the Commodities and Capital Markets practices were agile – compared with j...
TAccording to the annual survey of VersionOne there are 3 main reasons that determine the success of the implementation of a flexible methodology: (1) Executive sponsorship - 23%, (2) Training / works...
Project Demonstration, Sprint Demo, Sprint Review, and Iteration Increment Show – we are familiar with the various titles of these meetings but the core idea of each of these meetings is the same. The...
A leading international investment bank, providing banking, investment and funds management services in Asia Pacific, Europe and North America recently partnered with Excelian, acting as system integr...
Many analysts and economists view the integration of ethics and values into finance as a necessary step forward in the aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis. The conventional financial system,...
Last week a colleague of mine at Excelian published a blog post detailing Big Data and NoSQL solution adoption within the financial service industry. The conclusion drawn from the post is that the fut...
In just over a decade, we’ve become one of the leading companies in our sector. Businesses trust that we’ll do a good job. And ultimately, it’s the success stories that have given us...
June 2013. Excelian is delighted to announce that it has opened its fourth global delivery centre in New York. The expansion into the North American market comes after the company, with its headq...
Andre Nedelcoux, Partner at Excelian had the opportunity to participate at the STAC Conference in London on the 24th of June 2013.The event aimed to focus on engineering challenges and solutions withi...
I had the opportunity to participate to this year’s edition of the London STAC conference, an event focused on Finance and aiming at discussing engineering challenges and solutions within the in...
Over the past few years financial services companies have been slow in starting to use cloud computing services. This has been mainly down to the view that cloud computing is not as secure and reliabl...
When you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail. There is a significant amount of interest in Big Data solutions in Investment Banking technology departments. And there have been a number of proo...
Last week marked the conclusion of the first month in my first project for Excelian. Even though only 30 days have gone by, I feel years older. I don’t mean that I feel grumpy and my joints hurt...
There is no better time to clean up than the spring. The days are longer, the air is warmer, and there is a sense of renewal and freshness in the air. It's time to think about cleari...
[img]../../../images/img/methanehydrate2.jpg[/img]At the bottom of many of the world’s seas there exist a number of ice-like structures (see image1 ) called clathrates2 containing huge quantitie...
For the class of 2013 the end of the Graduate programme was in sight. After an intensive 12 weeks of various training courses and presentations, talks of where we would be placed on our 1st project we...
On the 23rd February 2013 the Technical Standards for implementing EMIR (The European Market Infrastructure Regulation) were published in the Official Journal of the European Union. They will en...
We have now reached the half-way point of the intensive Graduate Training Programme, and there has been a lot of varied training towards becoming successful consultants as well as still having fun had...
Excelian started in the last weeks investigating Xcelerit’s new technology: Xcelerit SDK for parallel programming and HPC. The framework claims to be an easy to use, highly scalable SDK which ca...
In 2012, some of UK’s leading banks took part in our study at how mature their management of high performance computing environments are within their organisations. Based on Excelian’s mat...
After successfully going through a tough Assessment Days last year, I am looking forward to the intensive Graduate Training over the next few months. I hope that the support from everyone at Excelian ...
A commodity is a physical substance which is interchangeable with another product of the same type. Silver is silver and it costs what it costs, as do pork bellies, oranges, peanuts and gold. Of...
Risk systems play a pivotal role in global finance, especially since the financial crisis of 2007/8 and the resulting failure of some high profile global institutions. Because of this, one particular ...
Yes, that’s what’s life is made of in this part of the world. I’ve been told it’s been too long since I wrote something for the blog. True. I was supposed to post this in 2012,...
Excelian recently attended a partner briefing for ParAccel, a company whose products endeavour to create an “Analytics Driven Enterprise”. The analytics driven enterprise is one that ackno...
Community LinksFor the second year running, Excelian staff donated a great deal of festive goodies towards the Community Links charity appeal. The east London charity seeks to help and empower those l...
Today’s increasingly mobile culture is quickly making its way into the modern working environment. Its impact on business cannot be underestimated. According to a 2012 Cisco IBSG Horizons study of &nb...
Luxoft’s mission statement focuses on going beyond client expectations by bringing together technology, talent, innovation and highest quality standards.We apply the ‘go beyond’ mantra to all aspects ...
I have been with Excelian for 5 months, of which just over two working within the reporting stream on client site. I started with Excelian in June, joining the graduate training programme having...
Adam Vile, Head of Technical Consulting at Excelian will host this breakfast where technology leaders from London’s Financial Services community will discuss how cloud computing is being applied...
“Recently, and after several years of working for Excelian in South Africa, I was fortunate enough to get my first 'overseas' project working with Murex in the Middle East on a two phase deploym...
As time goes by, it will be interesting to find out at what stage we’re at in this big reform and how likely countries are looking to hit the looming deadline.In my last post on the Excelian blo...
The other week I was lucky enough to be invited to the Lord Mayor’s City of London Dragon Awards at Mansion house, the Lord Mayor’s magnificent official residence (pictured below). The Dra...
I took part earlier this week in the Amazon Web Service update session organised in London by Amazon. The objective of this session was to give an overview of the new features available in AWS... and,...
Anyone excited for part 2? No one? Well, still. There you go Continuing on Saturday... We swapped drivers at the end of the afternoon when the road transformed suddenly from asphalt to red dust. Ciha...
I was reading the recent news from the european quant congress in which the quants agreed that they should shoulder the blame for the recent crisis. This is an interesting point, and it is not the fir...
As part of Excelian’s continued global expansion, the Excelian Board has announced several key appointments and changes at Executive level. With more than three hundred staff and revenues approa...
I got carried away in this post, so I’ll divide it in 2 parts.Let’s talk about something important: holidays. For those who don’t know - which means everyone but us folks in Australi...
Microsoft's new HPC Pack 2012 Beta Program was recently announced on the Windows HPC Team Blog. The communication promised more finely tuned job scheduling, increased node management control, MS...
Inside Reference Data recently held a webinar on Tuesday 2nd October discussing the hot topic of hosting Reference Data in the cloud. I represented Excelian as a panelist alongside senior representati...
In August only this year a US Investment Bank made global headlines reporting that a computer software glitch caused a malfunction in its trading system resulting in a trading loss of $440 million in ...
Twelve months after our previous market survey, it was time to take a fresh look at the high performance computing market and to run a new edition of our High Performance Computing maturity benchmark...
I visited Johannesburg, South Africa twice this year for 2 weeks at a time. The first trip was to gather business requirements for the project, which was a Murex Collateral Manager installation and th...
Dr Adam Vile, Senior Partner, Head of Technical Consulting at Excelian and thought leader has had a ‘view point’ editorial piece published in this month’s E-Gaming Review magazine, l...
It’s been few weeks without a blog post about Australia. It doesn’t mean we’ve been digested by a shark (we’ve been surfing every weekend) - it just means we were too busy....I...
Have you ever opened the newspaper or an industry magazine to find yourself faced with acronyms such as CCP, CPSS, IOSCO?These acronyms might mean nothing to most people, but for those of us working i...
Excelian and IBM co-hosted an exclusive breakfast briefing today at the Tower of London DoubleTree Hilton, which looked at the the latest high performance computing trends.As the second in a series of...
Last week the graduates completed the 12-week training programme. This programme offered a variety of skills ranging from: Financial Markets, JAVA, UNIX, SQL, Soft-skills, Murex Components (Back Offic...
Visiting the Harbour Bridge is something you have to do in Sydney. It’s pretty cool so you have to do it – ASAP – for the following reasons:1. It’s damn expensive so if li...
In this post, I’m going to try to explain how you can go to Australia. It should be a step by step guide, but I’m afraid I’ll get carried away with useless details. As usual. Oh well...
Excelian’s Graduate Programme of 2012 is quickly approaching the end and everyone is getting excited about which projects or further training they will be a part of. However, the focus still rem...
People are always happy when they’re on a drug called Vitamin D.And that’s probably why we’re catching the sun in Australia - hi there, Damien here. In this blog I’ll have the ...
Week 5This started with consultancy skills training including: communicating with the client, presentations, interviews, intensive timetables and even more importantly PEOPLE. How to always inspire an...
Are you interested in the deployment of Hadoop MapReduce or other types of distributed grid workloads? If so, then you’ll be delighted to hear that IBM and Excelian are talking about new ways to...
Facebook announce their entry to the online social gaming world!They, and the rest of the gaming community, have been thinking about this for a long time. Social gaming is the hot topic of...
The full upgrade, one of the first of its kind, moved LBG from a legacy version v1.5.4 to the latest MLC v1.6.9 main branch version for their FX, IRD, MM, EQD and commodities businesses.One of the mos...
Today’s business environment is growing exponentially more complex as companies face increasingly greater pressure to respond quickly to shifting marketplace dynamics, to innovate for the future, and ...
The “High Availability problem” has been one of the few stumbling blocks in Hadoop’s plans to become the premier data storage and processing platform. The single point of failure off...
In June Microsoft opened their Windows Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offerings allowing users to manage their own virtual machines within the Microsoft Azure cloud. This new feature set gre...
I've been with Excelian for just over a month and I have learnt a whole host of skills already, ranging from soft-skills, an introduction to the financial markets, and Java programming. Our trainers h...
Despite the fact we are experiencing one of the worst economic crises since the 1930’s, Excelian is one of only 62 London-based companies that made a significant contribution to the region...
Earlier this week Google announced the availability of Google Compute as their new Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) platform. Until now, Google's only Cloud offering was Google App Engine&...
Excelian attended the Microsoft Cloud Day which took place on Friday the 22nd of June in Fulham Broadway, London.The opening speech was given by Scott Guthrie - Corporate Vice President at Microsoft i...
The opening speech was given by Scott Guthrie – Corporate Vice President at Microsoft in charge of the development platform for Windows Azure – who presented the features introduced in Win...
The event was set in the Eight Club at Bank, Change Alley. This 21Club brought together thought leaders from different industries to consider the question: "Is now the time to bet on cloud?"...
The 21Club provides a forum for leading minds in technology from different industries, to discuss hot topics and latest trends.The June event looks at Cloud and Grid services, analysing market opportu...
The Excelian 21Club provides a forum for leading minds in technology from different industries, to discuss hot topics and latest trends.The latest in a series of events looks at Cloud and Grid service...
This summit provides an unparalleled platform to address the latest regulatory, technological and operational challenges affecting the metals trading landscape. Excelian is proud to be sponsorin...
Having been listed for a second time in the Investec Hot 100 Real Business Awards, Excelian has been invited to attend the Investec Entrepreneurs Summit at the InterContinental, Park Lane, on 13th Jun...
After a rigorous three stage selection process, twelve successful graduates from some of the most elite universities across the UK and Europe, start an intensive twelve week learning and development p...
On the 24th April, Excelian attended a summit organised by Oracle on a hot topic which is Big Data and Analytics, especially the challenge of processing large amount of data to find meaningful in...
Mike Feely joins as the company’s first full time Chief Financial Officer. Mike has over 20 years’ experience in finance roles with particular emphasis on the Telecoms, Media and Tec...
Excelian is pleased to announce the release of a new white paper on Cloud and how Cloud could be leveraged to solve the issues that the Finance industry faces when it comes to expanding grid computing...
Congratulations to Excelian's MLC team who have just gone live with a complex, multi-phase MLC risk project covering MLC limits functionality implementing 1.5.4 version and re-engineering the limits f...
Team 2012 to boost Britain’s medal hopes in final 100 days of preparationUK Sport, the nation’s high performance sports agency, has today announced a £750,000 cash injection, funded ...
Windows HPC Server 2008 is Microsoft’s solution for high-performance computing. Built on Windows Server 2008 R2 64-bit technology, Windows HPC Server provides scalable cluster resource managemen...
This is a particularly significant achievement as it comes shortly after receiving Best Company 2012 1 star accreditation. These awards demonstrate not only Excelian's continued rapid growth, but also...
The Cassandra Europe conference was also a very good place to learn about rolling out Cassandra in the real life, with a lot of case studies being presented. Before looking at some specific examples, ...
Each is hoping for a place on the company's intensive graduate training programme. Having already passed an initial technical screening round, candidates now undertake a series of aptitude interviews ...
Excelian took part to the first European Cassandra conference organised this week in London by Acunu.This very technology focused event was a very good opportunity to see how Cassandra has become a ma...
Recently I participated in Metering America conference in San Diego, CA. After a week passed and I had my chance to think it out, I’d like to share with you what new trend is visible. All the events t...
On 15th March 2010 I gave a briefing in sunny Cape Town to a group of buy side technologists and business representatives, about the ways in which technology is driving trading activity. In ...
On the 1st March, Excelian attended an all-day event organised by UK Oracle User Group called Oracle Coherence SIG (Special Interest Group), the bi-annual get-together event for people with interests ...
This week I was in Johannesburg visiting clients, and giving a breakfast briefing on the current directions in HPC and Grid in finance from the European Perspective. Sean Cody from Standar...
Excelian recently launched the 21 Club – the inaugural event was set in the old Masonic Lodge at the Andaz hotel, Liverpool Street. The 21 club pulled together industry leaders from investment b...
We had the chance last week to receive Rackspace in our London office for a technical talk on their technology offering and I wanted to share some thoughts and content on this presentation.Rackspace h...
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I talked to hundred of Demand Response specialists at a lot of conferences this year around the world and it seems pretty interesting to see how the Demand Response market is changing. We started with...
It is extremely sad that we have topics like that. But we have to move on and think about the results and conclusions we could make after what happened in Japan. Japanese Nuclear Commission in 2003 ha...
Demand Response became a buzzword maybe year ago. Spending some time trying to understand, what market players mean by it, I cleared out that despite the fact, that everyone is using it with the same ...
DMITRY LOSCHININ, PRESIDENT & CEO OF LUXOFT, COMMENTS ON THE GLOBAL DEBT CRISIS AND ITS IMPACT ON THE OUTSOURCING INDUSTRY AT LARGEDmitry, what do you think will be the implication of the global debt ...
Successful Demand Response program deployment doesn’t make anybody to deploy wires at home. It doesn’t rely on sophisticated and costly hardware. It is flexible – you can manage it online if it bother...
Something is going to change dramatically, with open market of Demand Response providers opening. Now they can not only propose services of load shedding, but they have to compete with each other, pro...