README.md

Mindnode mind maps to aid learning financial technology concepts and calculations

A work in progress - pull requests gladly accepted.

See also:

• mindmaps-scala-java
• mindmaps-data-structures

Key

Markets

Risk

Key Technical Challenges

• Number-crunching to analyse historic data (see VaR below). Big data analysis: HDFS, Hive, Spark

FX

Products

Key Technical Challenges

• 24/7 markets. Zero-downtime: release management, hot-deployment, monitoring
• E-trading, auto-hedging. Low-latency: performance management, garbage collection

Settlements / Market Data

Key Technical Challenges

• Audit. Bi-temporal data storage. Recording provenance of data and decisions