AWS

Goldman Sachs saw an internal memo leak last week that discussed a possible cloud offering in competition with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and others, with a focus on…

Amazon launches quantum computing service

December 2, 2019

AWS, D-Wave, IonQ, Quantum Computing, Rigetti

Amazon Web Services announced three key initiatives as a part of the company’s plans to help advance quantum computing technologies at the re:Invent conference. One of the initiatives is called…

Capital markets blockchain weekly roundup

August 1, 2019

AWS, blockchain, CBDC, crypto assets, crypto regulation, FCA, MAS, Project Ubin, settlement, SGX

Our weekly list of announcements about how capital markets and regulators are engaging with digital assets. Crypto fund Incrementum’s report compares Libra v XRP in global currency competition Corporations like…

cPacket Networks launches cloud visibility service with AWS

July 4, 2019

AWS, cloud technology, cPacket

cPacket Networks, a provider of next-generation network performance/security monitoring and packet brokering solutions, has launched the cCloud cloud-based network visibility-as-a-service (VaaS) offering by working with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and…

Reuters: L&G picks Amazon for first pensions blockchain deal

June 28, 2019

AWS, blockchain, Legal & General, pensions

British insurer Legal & General has teamed up with Amazon to establish what it said is the first blockchain system for corporate pension deals. The insurer said it would use…

Fintech weekly deals and partnerships roundup

BNY Mellon and AcadiaSoft team up for non-cleared margin outsourcing Buy-side derivatives market participants are now able to fully outsource their entire non-cleared margin workflow, via the market’s first end-to-end…

Fintech weekly deals and partnerships round-up

March 28, 2019

AWS, Binance, Bridgepoint, crypto exchanges, fundraising, IdentityMind, IHS Markit, KY3P, Kyriba, risk management, South Africa, Standard Bank

Bridgepoint to take majority stake in Kyriba for $160mn Kyriba, a cloud treasury and finance software provider, announced that it is in advanced talks with Bridgepoint, an international private equity…

Reuters: AWS has its own microchip for machine learning

November 29, 2018

ASICs, AWS, hardware acceleration, low latency, machine learning

Amazon launched a microchip aimed at machine learning, entering a market that both Intel and Nvidia are counting on to boost their earnings in the coming years. Amazon is one…

Register: who’s telling the truth in Bloomberg’s China spy-chip report?

October 7, 2018

Amazon, Apple, AWS, Bloomberg, China, cybersecurity, hardware, Super Micro, The Register

Chinese government agents sneaked spy chips into Super Micro servers used by Amazon, Apple, the US government, and about 30 other organizations, which included “a major bank”, giving Beijing’s snoops…

Data crunchers waiting on cloud to be “ready for primetime”

August 7, 2018

Big Data, Technology

AWS, cloud, GCP, HSBC