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Dr. John Bates
Chief Technology Officer
Dr. John Bates is the Chief Technology Officer at Progress Software.
Prior to joining Progress, Bates was the co-founder, president and chief technology officer of Apama, the pioneering Complex Event Processing software vendor acquired by Progress in April 2005. In this role, Bates led Apama’s technology and go-to-market strategy and was co-inventor of the patented technology that is now a key part of the Progress Apama platform. Prior to Apama, Bates was a tenured academic at Cambridge University in the UK where he led research into distributed computing systems.
Bates is a respected expert, frequent author and speaker in the areas of Capital Markets technology, with a specific focus on algorithmic trading, risk and surveillance, and distributed computing systems, with a specific focus on Complex Event Processing.
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Progress Apama High Frequency TradingPresented By John BatesDr. John Bates discusses high frequency trading and its relationship to algo trading. |
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eWeek InterviewPresented By John BatesIn this eWeek interview, Dr. John Bates introduces CEP and its role within organizations, focusing on how and where CEP and BAM can fit within a broader IT architecture |
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Smart Order Routing - Part 4Presented By John BatesJohn discusses the differences between SOR offerings and what the buy-side really needs from this technology. (provided courtesy of The Tradenews.com) |
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Smart Order Routing - Part 3Presented By John BatesJohn Bates discusses how the ability to customize can be key to creating competitive SOR capabilities. (provided courtesy of The Tradenews.com) |
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Smart Order Routing - Part 2Presented By John BatesJohn Bates discusses the importance of low latency execution in effective SOR solutions. (provided courtesy of The Tradenews.com) |
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Smart Order Routing - Part 1Presented By John BatesJohn Bates discusses how traders are using smart order routing to cope with the changing marketplace. (provided courtesy of The Tradenews.com) |
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Risk Management & Market SurveillancePresented By John BatesJohn discusses additional examples of the use of CEP in Capital Markets. |
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Early Adoption of Complex Event ProcessingPresented By John BatesJohn talks about the applications that showcase the early adoption of CEP in Capital Markets. |
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Monitoring Rogue TradingPresented By John BatesJohn discusses the impact of rogue trading and the role that technology can play in helping to detect it. |
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The State of Algorithmic TradingDr. John Bates, VP and GM of Apama, discusses the evolution of algorithmic trading towards high frequency trading. Learn about how to manage risk and prevent rogue traders, and discover the holy grail of market surveillance. |
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Algorithmic TradingTo be an algorithmic trading leader, you need to be competitive on multiple frontiers. Dr. John Bates, VP and GM of Apama, discusses key factors that are critical to algorithmic trading success. |
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FX AggregationDr. John Bates, VP and GM of Apama shares how you can achieve consolidated prices and debt across various sources in today’s world of fragmented FX liquidity and enjoy single screen click-to-trade. |
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Market SurveillancePut your operations and compliance officers back in control. Dr. John Bates, VP and GM of Apama talks about how you can detect market problems and irregularities in real-time.
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Real-Time RiskDo you know the extent of exposure across your entire firm at any given moment? Dr. John Bates, VP and GM of Apama shares how you can increase trading volumes and manage risk in real-time. |
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Trading in the CloudDr. John Bates explains how smaller organizations can take advantage of hosted, connected, and integrated solutions to enjoy advanced trading capabilities. It’s all in the cloud! |
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Dr John Bates, CEO, Progress Apama: "Turbulent times"Dr John Bates outlines how turbulent markets have created the need for trading firms to be able to change and adapt very quickly. He goes on to talk about the Progress Apama platform as a tool to help clients meet these demands and discusses the recent demand for greater visibility of real time risk, and Apama's potential use as a pre-trade risk tool and auto hedging system. |
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Helping Today's Turbulent Capital MarketsJohn Bates, Managing Director, Progress Apama, discusses the role of Apama in capital markets with the South China Morning Post. |
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Fighting White Collar Crime with ApamaFox News interview with John Bates on Fighting White Collar Crime with Apama. |
Gaining a Competitive Advantage with Algorithms
Discover new tools for building customized trading algorithms,and find out how leading-edge institutions are exploiting high frequency techniques. Dr. John Bates talks about how Apama's integration capabilities can incorporate a variety of data - not just tick data – to enrich your algorithmic strategies.
The Emerging Opportunity for Algorithms in FX Trading and Hedging
Dr. John Bates, VP Apama Products and Chris Martins, Apama Product Marketing Director, discuss how algorithmic strategies can exploit new opportunities in FX and cross asset trading to provide a competitive advantage.
CEP: Strategic or Tactical Weapon
Presenters discuss the role that complex event processing plays in managing risk and the IT landscape. This webinar features insights from noted capital markets industry analyst, Adam Honore from Aite Group and Dr. John Bates the founder and general manager of Progress Apama, the industry’s leading CEP platform for Capital Markets. You'll hear short and incisive presentations and a lively Q&A session at the end.
Real-time Risk – A Mandate for Trading in Volatile Markets
This webinar features insights from Kevin McPartland, Senior Analyst, TABB Group, Dhiru Patel, Chief Quantitative Strategist, Thomas Weisel Partners and Dr. John Bates the founder and general manager of Progress Apama, the industry’s leading CEP platform for Capital Markets solutions. Listen to short and incisive presentations and a lively Q&A session at the end.
Putting Intelligence into Business Activity Monitoring
With CEP you can monitor and act on complex business conditions immediately and deliver the real potential of Business Activity Monitoring (BAM). Listen to this recorded webinar, hosted by Dr. John Bates and Dr. Giles Nelson, and hear about real world examples of how CEP and BAM can support applications for fraud and compliance monitoring.
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