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颠覆者:机构投资者的科技50强亚博赞助欧冠

尽管没有忽视他们对效率最大化和成本最小化的日常关注,但在机构投资者科技50强中脱颖而出的高管们有着更长远的抱负:通过抓住下一波颠覆性创新来获得竞争优势。亚博赞助欧冠

“Some of the best things on the web are free,” muses Lance Uggla, CEO of Markit Group. “When I look at how financial markets will use technology to transform their networks of participants, I think the word ‘free’ has to be included.”

He is referring to the way Facebook and Google are free — and to the new commercial models they have spawned. The financial services industry is poised for its own Google-like revolution, says Uggla, who in ten years has built Markit into a global force in market information and transaction-processing services. No. 5 in this year’s Tech 50, Institutional Investor’s annual ranking of financial technology leaders and innovators, Uggla says he spends 10 to 15 percent of his time “thinking and talking with others about a free strategy and how disruptive it would be to today’s business model.”

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For last year's Tech 40, click here.

“Disruptive” is the operative word, and it is a thread running through the Tech 50. The idea harks back to The Innovator’s Dilemma, a 1997 book by Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen that explained how long-entrenched, industry-leading companies can fail to anticipate “disruptive technologies” or seize the opportunities they present.

Today’s financial services disrupters do not so much fear falling into obsolescence like Christensen’s 20th-century case studies — such as Digital Equipment Corp., which was blindsided by the personal computer — as they are eager to make innovative leaps to gain competitive advantages. Taking the productivity and efficiency afforded by automation as a given, executives see technology in a more opportunistic light: as a tool for growth.

颠覆定义了为什么雷托·弗朗西奥尼和邓肯·尼德奥尔,这两家公司各自的首席执行官 德意志银行örse和纽交所-泛欧交易所(NYSE-Euronext)在科技股50强中排名第一。二月份,他们同意合并并创建全球最大的交易所组织,这本身就是一个颠覆性的、甚至是挑衅性的战略举措。现在,他们面临着进一步的考验,如何让他们的交易以很少有大规模合并的方式获得回报。

它落在了一个由经验丰富的技术专家组成的执行团队——除了弗朗西奥尼和尼德奥尔之外,还包括德意志银行(Deutsche Börse衍生品首席执行官Andreas Preuss和纽约证券交易所总裁(以及IBM公司资深人士)Dominique Cerutti—不仅要完成基本的系统集成,而且还要在公司变得越来越大、越来越复杂时开发和部署颠覆性、业务转型、提高收入的技术服务。

如果说纽交所6月份宣布的资本市场社区平台(一个最先被吹捧为金融服务业的云计算工具)有任何迹象的话,那么随着合并的推进,它们很可能能够保持这种关注。

Two other CEOs in the top ten, Jeffrey Sprecher of IntercontinentalExchange and Robert Greifeld of Nasdaq OMX Group, were disruptive in another sense when they joined forces in March to try to derail Deutsche Börse’s deal with NYSE Euronext by making a hostile bid for the latter. Sprecher and Greifeld eventually had to withdraw for antitrust reasons, but technology was central to the case they tried to make. They asserted that their own postmerger track records for efficiency and innovation were superior to those of Börse and NYSE. Indeed, Sprecher could be speaking for any number of the Tech 50 in stressing ICE’s “culture of enabling change” and “unwavering dedication to product innovation, technological advancement, customer service and transparent markets.”

The influence of Facebook and Google is evident not only at Markit, which in May introduced an investment research app for the Apple iPad in partnership with Deutsche Bank, but also in mobile and social network applications for mass consumption championed by other Tech 50 honorees (Bank of America Corp.’s Catherine Bessant, No. 14; Cortal Consors’ Olivier Le Grand,
No. 13; and StockTwits’ Howard Lindzon, No. 46).

汤森路透(Jon Robson,排名第9)和彭博社(Shawn Edwards,排名第15)的传统订阅出版业务,Markit的Uggla认为,很容易受到自由平台模式的影响,几乎没有闲置。两家公司都在改变其技术架构,使其看起来更像开放访问的云。汤森路透企业总裁罗布森将自己的Elektron网络比作应用商店,他说:“我们真的必须颠覆我们自己的模式。”

Avid Modjtabai (No. 10), Wells Fargo & Co.’s head of technology and operations, views innovation as an extension of everyday problem solving. The motivation is never “technology for technology’s sake,” she says — a conviction also voiced by Stephen Scullen
(第6位),富达投资公司公司运营总裁。”我们为自己是一家对金融服务业的运作方式具有创新性和颠覆性的公司而感到自豪,”Scullen说,但始终以 “为客户提供便利,改善他们的体验。”

科技50ranking, identifying leading executives, system developers, entrepreneurs and others at the forefront of change and innovation in financial technology, is compiled by the editors and staff of Institutional Investor, with nominations and other input from industry experts. Four primary sets of attributes were evaluated: experience and contributions over the course of a career; scope and complexity of responsibilities; influence and leadership inside and outside one’s organization; and pure technological innovation or achievement. Of the 50 entries, 24 return from last year’s Tech 40; the rest are designated “PNR” (previously not ranked).

科技50was compiled under the editorial direction of Senior Contributing Editor Jeffrey Kutler. Individual profiles were written by Kutler,  Asia Bureau Chief Allen T. Cheng, Senior Writer Frances Denmark,  Americas Editor Michael Peltz, Staff Writer Julie Segal, and Contributing Writers Janice Fioravante, Marian Raab, Rosalyn Retkwa and Melanie Wold.