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Post-trade productivity boost
Mid-pandemic, the outlook for the global economy was pretty bearish, including the prospects for the banking sector. In May 2020, management consultants McKinsey in their report Time to radically rethink bank productivity, predicted a downturn that would last until mid 2023. They highlighted productivity gains as the solution and listed seven steps banks could take to survive the downturn and emerge stronger.
Written by
Keith Hill
Date
September 6, 2023
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Hackday
AI
SalesIQ: Empowering FX Sales Dealers with Predictive Insights
Caplin hackdays happen twice a year and are a perfect opportunity to try new things, many of which end up in our products. The theme for our July hackday was ‘Smart Caplin’, and our team SalesIQ wanted to investigate whether we could use machine learning to transform our FX Sales dashboard into a powerful tool that would empower sales dealers with predictive capabilities and a deeper understanding of client behaviour.
Written by
Steve South
Date
August 4, 2023
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QA
Javascript
URElf - Chrome extension to swiftly modify URL params
At Caplin, dev days offer an opportunity for engineers to take a break from their routine tasks, to delve into a side project or experiment with a new technology. During my recent dev day, I embarked on a mission to develop a Chrome extension, using React and Material UI, with the aim of simplifying the monotonous and sometimes error prone process of manually entering parameters on our app URLs.
Written by
Dan Owen
Date
August 1, 2023
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Hackday
AI
Hack Day XVII – It's my bank in a box!
Caplin runs a biannual internal hack day competition for employees to work on fun projects and spike new ideas for future products. For this hack day our team comprised Lukmann Butt, Ed Pratt and myself. The aim of our project was two-fold:
Written by
Tom Brook
Date
July 20, 2023
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Hackday
Hackday 2021 - The Silence of the Lambdas
Since its inception over two years ago the Caplin Managed Services team has been responsible for building and maintaining Caplin’s SaaS cloud offerings. Our cloud infrastructure is handled by a DevOps toolchain made up primarily of Terraform, automated builds, and containerised deployments, with the goal of streamlining as much of the deployment and upgrade process as possible.
Written by
Caplin Systems
Date
July 20, 2023
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