cloud technologies

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