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Presentation: "Integrating SQL & NoSQL & NewSQL & Realtime Data Intelligence for the Financial Industry"

Track: Finance, Technology & Implementation / Time: Friday 15:40 - 16:30 / Location: Whittle Room

We will be talking about a robust, cost effective, hypothetical solution to address extreme challenges in big financial institutions, from decision making support to pricing and risk management, including storing, processing, analysing real-time and historical unstructured, semi-structured and structured data found in all investment banks and commodity trading houses, i.e. time series market data, orders/trades, risk metrics. This is to demonstrate how emerging technologies can play a strategic role in your enterprise data and BI architecture.

#Hadoop #HBase #GraphDB #TwitterStorm #Solr #Lucene #Lily #MDX #Clojure #R #Variety #Velocity #Volume

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Ashwani Roy, Masters in Finance at London Business School

Ashwani Roy

Biography: Ashwani Roy

Ashwani Roy has about 10 years of experience in programming and software architecture out of which 5 years are with various investments in areas like risk computation, pricing and PnL reporting. He is also a Master in Finance student at London Business School and a speaker in software conference like PASS and SQL Bits. He loves programming, mathematics and applications in Finance and is proficient in C#, F#, SQL Server, Clojure and Sybase. His interests include analysis of large data sets, time series analysis and forecasting modelling, stochastic calculus and he has been involved with application of Hadoop and Hive in finance industry for the last 2 years.

Twitter: @Ashwani_Roy

Charles Cai, Managing Director, Socialogix Limited

Charles Cai

Biography: Charles Cai

Charles Cai makes a living by designing Foreign Exchange and energy trading systems and he is currently focusing on architecture and technology innovation for new generation market data analytics, cross-asset trading and risk management. Prior to this role, Charles has designed and built multiple large scale commodities trading systems for investment banks in UK since 2008; prior to that, co-founded IT and software subsidiary for a global private bank, specializing in FX and equity investment for Ultra High Net Worth (UHNW) clients.

Follow his tweets @caidong for latest technology in mobile, Cloud, BigData, social coding, MOOC, investment banking and energy trading.