cloud technologies

OTC Derivatives Clearing, Technology

cloud technologies, Commerzbank, LPA Group, OTC derivatives, post-trades processing, STP, topstory

One of the latest bank-fintech partnership development stories comes from Germany, where Commerzbank and LPA recently announced the launch of post-trade in the cloud for banks. We find out more…

SGX, Aquis and AWS complete PoC validating low-latency markets can be cloud-hosted

November 24, 2020

Aquis, AWS, cloud technologies, exchanges, SGX

Aquis Technologies, the software development and licensing arm of exchange services group Aquis Exchange, has completed a project iwith Singapore Exchange (SGX) and Amazon Web Services (AWS) to validate that…

What banks and trading firms say about choosing AI platforms (Premium)

November 11, 2020

Artificial Intelligence, Cloud, Technology

artificial intelligence, Benchmarks, cloud technologies, hardware acceleration, machine learning, STAC, standards, topstory

The promise of financial AI has resulted in a growing number of advanced technologies that are supposed to deliver it. We hear from experts at a recent conference organized by…

SIFMA: regulatory obligations in cloud services

November 5, 2020

cloud technologies, SIFMA

Cloud technology will likely occupy an increasingly critical position in financial institutions’ operations. Accordingly, financial institutions should develop methods for navigating regulatory expectations and other potential risks associated with adopting…

Swedish fintech Itiviti moving all electronic trading infrastructure to AWS cloud

October 27, 2020

AWS, cloud technologies, fintech, Itiviti, Sweden

Stockholm-headquartered Itiviti announced its entire electronic trading platform will be moving to cloud, opting for a hybrid private-public cloud strategy to maintain modularity and flexibility. This will be rolled out…

Standard Chartered picks Azure for cloud-first strategy, trade finance systems prioritized

August 13, 2020

artificial intelligence, cloud technologies, Microsoft Azure, Standard Chartered, Trade Finance

Standard Chartered Bank and Microsoft have announced a three-year strategic partnership to accelerate the bank’s digital transformation through a cloud-first strategy to make virtual banking, next-generation payments, open banking and…

NIST publishes cloud system guidance for IaaS, PaaS and SaaS

August 2, 2020

cloud technologies, cybersecurity, IaaS, NIST, PaaS, SaaS

NIST has published “General Access Control Guidance for Cloud Systems”, which presents an initial step toward understanding security challenges in cloud systems by analyzing the access control (AC) considerations in…

Xignite Partners with SIX for real time market data in cloud

July 30, 2020

cloud technologies, market data, SIX, Xignite

Xignite and SIX announced they are offering real-time data from the catalog of SIX, which includes 1,800+ global exchanges and trading venues via Xignite Enterprise Microservices, a suite of cloud-native…

Schroders: “dark side” to tech giants’ winning performance during COVID-19

April 28, 2020

Amazon, bigtech, cloud technologies, coronavirus, Microsoft

While many businesses struggle to survive under the global lockdown, the largest technology companies remain afloat and in some cases are even thriving. Microsoft has reported a surge in usage of…

UK cloud-native banking startup plans expansion in APAC, N. America after $83mn raise

March 3, 2020

cloud technologies, fundraising, Thought Machine

Thought Machine has raised $83 million to push forward on deploying modern cloud-native systems and invest in its core engineering capability, as well as expand into Asia Pacific. Among its…

FT: EU “digital sovereignty” threatens asset managers’ outsourcing

February 17, 2020

News and Notes – Fintech, Uncategorized

cloud technologies, data management, EU, Gaia-X

Former Brussels lawmaker Kay Swinburne has warned that the EU’s push to establish its own data storage infrastructure to rival US giants Amazon and Google threatens the outsourcing arrangements that…

Deutsche Börse partners with Google Cloud for advanced tech and security applications

September 18, 2019

cloud technologies, Deutsche Boerse, Google Cloud