Learnings from an enterprise technology venture
A few months back, we made the hard decision to stop the funding round and look for early exit opportunities for Fairom. For the last 3 years, Fairom has been on a mission to bring efficiency in the capital markets using distributed ledger technology (DLT). Fairom has...
Capital Markets Efficiency, Fairness and Distributed Ledger Technology
Among the variety of unique experiences we have had in recent years, the GameStop incident will also go down in history as a key event for financial markets. As we strip down the noise and focus on the core dynamics that are in place, there are a lesson or two to be...
Volatility, settlement risk and distributed ledger technology
Immediately after the March mayhem, I had a call with a friend who works in prime brokerage and custodian departments at a large bank: X: These days I receive calls from our friends in other banks to check the background of our clients (asset managers). Me: Why is...
Navigating through a Black Swan
In 2012, along with another researcher, I worked on a few projects in self-organizing, adaptive complex systems. Adaptive complex systems are where the whole system is more complicated and enigmatic than the properties of individual agents or components in the system...
Fairom Delivers Blockchain Automation to the Manual OTC Derivatives Market
The OTC (over-the-counter) derivatives market is the largest overall market for derivatives, but the process of trading derivatives is manual and cumbersome, and relatively unfamiliar to most average investors. There are added levels of risk in trading OTC...