Amazon launches quantum computing service
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…
Read More Capital markets blockchain weekly roundup
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…
Read More cPacket Networks launches cloud visibility service with AWS
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…
Read More Reuters: L&G picks Amazon for first pensions blockchain deal
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…
Read More 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…
Read More Fintech weekly deals and partnerships round-up
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…
Read More Reuters: AWS has its own microchip for 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…
Read More Register: who’s telling the truth in Bloomberg’s China spy-chip report?
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…
Read More 
Data crunchers waiting on cloud to be “ready for primetime”
The promised revolution of the cloud is still getting over a major hitch: it’s unclear who’s allowed to get inside it. That’s hardly surprising considering the cloud holds vast quantities…
Read More