Seasons Greetings and Good Luck in 2012.
1. Many Financial Exchanges will declare bankruptcy in 2012 creating a flurry of transnational merger of exchanges.
2. Financial Exchanges will move their trading engines to a shared technology infrastructure like cloud computing to bring down their technology cost.
3. Rating Agencies will play a major role by stabilizing global equity markets after the regulator tames their independence by introducing reforms in their rating methodologies.
4. Cloud will be predominantly used for algorithmic and similar computer driven trading, which will make markets operations cost effective and profitable.
5. SAAS (Software as a Service Models) will emerge for financial exchanges to use as a service, though it may face resistance from regulators, but this paradigm shift will make technology solutions for financial trading engines a commodity with a Opex budget and will find large scale adoptions by exchanges globally in but developed and developing markets.
6. Traders will stay ahead of Regulators and Exchanges and will continue to make money thus sustaining the joys and rewards of trading in financial markets.
