Steve Wilcockson

Steve Wilcockson

Product Marketing at KX
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Bio I enjoy model-led and data-driven technologies in financial services. I work with quants, data scientists, data engineers, developers and business stakeholders on their research to production workflows on the buy-side, sell-side, front office, middle office, in insurance, and more. Career History At KX, our world-beating kdb time-series database and language q is used extensively across tier 1 front offices. With the tech fully supporting cloud-native real-time streaming analytics use cases and with terrific Python interoperability including embedded machine learning, I advocate its use in new places. I was formerly at Azul, a Java runtime specialist with a sizeable footprint in low-latency and big data applications such as trading, back-testing, pricing, payments, fraud detection and risk management. Before that, I was at altdata and sustainable finance satellite imagery firm Geospatial Insight, and until June 2018 I was Industry Manager for Financial Services at MathWorks, aka MATLAB.

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Capital Markets Technology

Niklaus Wirth, and How Financial Computing Can Help Save The Planet

11 Jan 2024

More than a few computing luminaries have sadly passed over recently, unsurprising given many pioneers from the fifties, sixties, and seventies reaching end of life. One who caught my eye was Niklaus Wirth who departed this world on New Year's Day. He was a Swiss computer scientist, associated most with ETH Zurich, but he also had sixties Silicon V...

Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services

Three GenAI Terms Financial Practitioners Learnt in 2023

03 Jan 2024

2023 was a troublesome year for many on our planet – wars, violence, population displacement, catastrophes, extremism, higher costs of living and poverty. Folks working in our industry were comparatively lucky, some of us invigorated by the exciting GenerativeAI tornado. Just as HFT transformed the vocabulary of capital markets in the 2000s, and d...

Big Data

Bitemporality, Helping Lower Costs for Financial Services Use Cases

15 Nov 2023

I was at an “all things data and analytics benchmarking” event last week. It was fabulous, most major banks were represented, also the hottest of hot hedge funds, a chunk of exchanges, and some of not-the-usual vendors. I found it refreshing, like most events where tangible analytics gets discussed. My early career was quant /data science/analytics...

Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services

From RAG to Riches in a GenAI World: Some Jargon Explainers and Current Trends

06 Nov 2023

What is RAG? Here's the simple 30 second definition, A deeper dive will follow. RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) is the buzziest word on the GenAI internet right now, more jargon to confuse the uninitiated. RAG, stands for retrieval augmented generation. It simpy means you can apply and RETRIEVE knowledge in front of the LLM, to AUGMENT your LL...

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