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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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...

Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services

3 Steps For Successful Transformative Financial Services GenAI Use Cases

25 Oct 2023

A certain research agency, one that runs big conferences and captures a ton of CIO mindshare, recently offered guidance on (analyst jargon speak ahead!) a decision framework for assessing and realizing value from enterprise generative AI initiatives. Business culture will adapt over time, of course, they state. Here is not the place to reflect on h...

Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services

Similarity Searches: The Neurons of the Vector Database

07 Sep 2023

I recently wrote a Finextra piece entitled 3 GenAI Use Cases for Capital Markets; The Power of the Vector. In it, I discussed the increasing importance of the so-called vector database and vectors more generally to a whole range of quantitative finance applications. The term vector database, as I discussed in that piece, carries multiple, overload...

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