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At Duco, we keep an eye on the state of cloud usage by banks for obvious reasons. We do not touch any public cloud infrastructure such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) at this stage because most of our clients do not want us to – but that’s a distinction that doesn’t really matter in practice. If people are sending data out of the house, it’s “cloud”.

The recent ‘Thompson Reuters 100 Global Innovators Study’ made some interesting reading. It made me think about how innovation principles from some seemingly unrelated businesses are interrelated, such as cars and fintech.

When it is working as designed, the capital markets industry greases the wheels of the global economy, moving and allocating capital to where it is necessary.

The FIA annual Expo in Chicago delivered a wide range of themes and discussions across the listed derivative and cleared swap industry.

The world has changed significantly since we launched the Duco Cube service in April 2013: “best of breed” hosted services have gained traction and are helping firms across the finance industry to cut costs, cope with regulation and simplify business processes.

Are you sitting in a new tech company trying to sell to banks? Here is a story for you.

Selling SaaS to consumers is one thing. Selling it to businesses is another. And selling it to highly regulated, "systemically important" banks is from another planet!