Waters Wavelength Podcast: Navigating the buy vs. build debate
Adaptive Financial Consulting’s Matt Barrett joins the podcast to discuss how firms decide to build or buy.
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This week, Adaptive Financial Consulting’s co-founder and CEO, Matt Barrett, joins Theo on the podcast to discuss the buy versus build debate. Then, they look at what characteristics firms are after in a trading system.
2:30 – Matt joins the podcast and details his journey to Adaptive.
5:00 – What do we mean by “buy vs. build”?
7:30 – Is there a pattern of buying, building, and then integrating? What are the pitfalls in that process?
13:30 – How the rise of cloud facilitates innovation.
14:30 – Matt discusses what firms look for in a new trading system.
19:30 – There is always a degree of “buy” involved.
21:00 – Matt says the future of trading technology is increasingly cloud-provisioned.
23:00 – Is there more consolidation on the way?
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