by Roy S. Freedman
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The financial technology environment is a dynamic, high-pressured, fast-paced world in which developing fast and efficient buy-and-sell order processing systems and order executing (clearing and settling) systems is of primary importance. The orders involved come from an ever-changing network of people (traders, brokers, market makers) and technology. To prepare people to succeed in this environment, seasoned financial technology veteran Roy Freedman presents both the technology and the finance side in this comprehensive overview of this dynamic area. He covers the broad range of topics involved in this industry--including auction theory, databases, networked computer clusters, back-office operations, derivative securities, regulation, compliance, bootstrap statistics, optimization, and risk management--in order to present an in-depth treatment of the current state-of-the-art in financial technology.
Each chapter concludes with a list of exercises; a list of references; a list of websites for further information; and case studies. A Powerpoint presentation that outlines each chapter's main points is available in a companion instructor's website, and an online instructor's manual is available.
*With amazing clarity, Freedman explains both the technology side and the finance side of financial technology
*Accessible to both finance professionals needing to upgrade their technology knowledge and technology specialists needing to upgrade their finance knowledge
*PowerPoint slides for each chapter available on the Elsevier textbooks website
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
 Lots of history, lots of finance, very little technology, 2008-02-24
As a technical architect in a non financial field (telecoms) I bought this hoping it would do what is said, and introduce me to financial technology (in my mind, and in the publishers reviews, this implied aspects of technology, and technology domain knowledge specific to the finance industry)
Instead, I'm 6 chapters in, I've read page after page of financial formulas, I've digested the roughly 40% of the book that is recounting historical footnotes to finance (history of the chappe telegraph? intellectual property disputes about morse code), and waded through irrelevant diversions in fields such as "Combining voltage and current sources".
While all this is interesting enough, if I wanted to SO much about the details of financial calculations I would have bought a book "Financial Formulas". If I wanted to know SO much about history, then I would have bought a book called "History of Financial Technology". As it is, I bought a book called "Financial Technology" and I've learnt very little so far about it.
0 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
 Excellent Book, 2007-11-15
I will never ever regret buying this book. It has a lot of information in Finance, Technology, Mathimatics, History (True Stories) and more than that. It seems that the author of the book had put tremendous efforts in writing such a fabuous book like that. It is interesting and exciting for reading. It's priced well below its value. I highly recommend it.
0 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
Awesome Book!, 2007-11-15
Just GET IT....It has all what you need concerning finance and tech. Written in an easy way, so exciting.
Excellent for both academics and regular readers.
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