Posts by Paul Rowady

Context Machine: Introducing a Techno-Operational Benchmarking Framework for Asset Managers

Executive Summary Riding the wave of the FinTech juggernaut, technology now permeates all aspects of the financial services ecosystem; front-to-back,...

By Paul Rowady | October 31, 2017 | Open

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Broker Tech Spend Speaks Volumes

Broker spending on technology is one of those topics that rises to the top of the headlines from time to...

By Paul Rowady | October 19, 2017 | For Subscribers

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JPMorgan’s Massive Collaboration Experiment

Sitting in on the Symphony Innovate 2017 conference last week in New York, the figure that stood out for me...

By Paul Rowady | October 10, 2017 | For Subscribers

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Man or Machine: Who Are The Real Trading Champions?

Despite dramatic changes to the fortunes of quantitative trading strategies of late, they still represent the extremes of “technology leverage”...

By Paul Rowady | September 20, 2017 | For Subscribers

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Bulge Bank Headcount Index: Rare Uptick in Q2

It’s only happened twice since the peak, recorded nearly 6 years ago (at the end of Q3 2011): Alphacution’s bulge...

By Paul Rowady | August 30, 2017 | For Subscribers

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Automation May Require More People

Here’s  a quick jolt of provocative thought, just in case your brain – like mine – has become a little...

By Paul Rowady | August 24, 2017 | Open

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Operational Clues: Asset Managers Shifting Strategies

You can track shifting asset class and/or strategy allocations over several years for a long list of asset managers, and then add...

By Paul Rowady | June 28, 2017 | For Subscribers

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Technical Leverage in Context

Alphacution defines technical leverage as the difference between revenue per employee (RPE) and technology spending per employee. In the parlance...

By Paul Rowady | June 20, 2017 | For Subscribers

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IT Services: A Force Multiplier?

The following is the opening segment from our most recent study – “IT Services and Strategic Impacts for Global Banks: The...

By Paul Rowady | June 13, 2017 | Open

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Global Banking Brain Drain Slowing

Brain drain – in this case meaning the loss of valuable human capital – is one of those silent malignancies in...

By Paul Rowady | June 1, 2017 | For Subscribers

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