Please, let me explain… : The Financial Crisis Panel Review Thanks for returning to FinTechIsrael! Have you already subscribed to our RSS feed?After two days of testimony from senior executives, government bureaucrats, and economists, the US government’s Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission has brought to light some of the root causes of the crisis. After...

What is high-speed trading truly capable of? Why is it the new scapegoat Deutsche Borse In a series of fascinating articles all weekend, covering the NYTimes article about low-latency/high-frequency electronic trading tactics, there has been a healthy debate about whether such trading tactics were the force behind Goldman Sachs astronomical trading profits. To brush up on the...