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Top banks hiring UX designers for Single-Dealer Platform projects
A quick search using LinkedIn, shows that most top-tier banks have over the past year employed a dedicated Head of UX Design, or User Experience recourse, primarily focused on enhancing the ‘user...
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Focus on UX: FX sales traders have all the fun!
Following on from work to expose the metrics available in the Xaqua platform by Scott we have started to consider the design opportunities to enhance sales trader user experience (UX). Here we give...
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Empowering users with ‘app based’ single-dealer platforms
In September, we covered Deutsche Bank’s new Autobahn ‘App market’, and how they are striving to make the complex simple. The ‘app’ concept seems to be developing as a theme, and is covered more in an...
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Is Google about to kill Firefox?
Online trading offerings, and single-dealer platforms in particular, rely heavily on modern browser functionality to enable them to deliver a great experience to users. Microsoft’s Internet Explorer...
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Bret Victor uncovers the evils of interaction design
Over on Coding the Markets there is an interesting discussion around Bret Victor and his treatise on UI design ‘Magic Ink‘ from (2006) where he uncovers the evils of interaction design Also if you...
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BNP single dealer platform CORTEX FX – now released!
BNP Paribas has now officially released their new ‘Silverlight’ single dealer platform CORTEX FX. The microsite offers plenty of video’s and insight into the platform, with key features being: The...
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RBC new single dealer platform DirectExecution (RBCDX)
RBC is rolling out their new single dealer platform, ‘RBC DirectExecution’ (RBCDX), aimed at their corporate and real-money institutional clients. The platform, commissioned over three years ago has an...
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Who were the UX designers behind Morgan Stanley’s Matrix platform?
It’s been nearly three years since Morgan Stanley first launched their ‘game changing’ (in cost, team size and scope) Matrix single dealer platform. Although Caplin weren’t involved in the project,...
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Internet Trends Update from Mary Meeker
If you haven’t seen it yet, there is an updated internet trends presentation on the KPCB website. IMHO, most interesting is the chart of internet traffic in India (page 16), where mobile is now the...
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ACI Singapore
Our man in Singapore, Randy Hebert, and I were among the 700 or so delegates that attended the 52nd ACI World Congress which was held in the Marina Bay Sands Conference Centre, Singapore from March...
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