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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…

Lessons from gaming: Google’s Stadia and Microsoft’s xCloud show a potential fintech business model

July 22, 2019

Josh Galper

Cloud, Fintech, Technology

Amazon, cloud, gaming, Google, Microsoft, Netflix, technology, topstory

Big tech firms have launched business models to become the Netflix of gaming. Instead of buying a game and playing it on a console at home, users would have a…

UK Finance: artificial intelligence in financial services

July 7, 2019

AI ethics, artificial intelligence, Microsoft, UK Finance

The financial services industry has a history of using quantitative methods and algorithms to support decision making. These are a foundation of AI systems, and the industry is therefore primed…

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

April 30, 2019

advanced analytics, Allianz, cloud technology, fundraising, Halo, Microsoft, Mosaic Smart Data, Standard Bank, structured notes

Vela and Enyx partner on ultra-low latency market data solutions Vela, an independent provider of trading and market access technology for global multi-asset electronic trading, and Enyx, a developer and…

Fintech weekly deals and partnerships roundup

Argentina’s MercadoLibre closes $2bn public and private offerings MercadoLibre, a Latin American e-commerce technology company, announced the closing of its $1.15 billion public offering, which includes the exercise in full…

5-year high for enterprise software M&A at $182bn, AI and ML advances will boost further

March 11, 2019

acquisitions, Adobe, cloud technology, enterprise, fundraising, Hampleton Partners, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Red Hat

The latest M&A market reports from international technology mergers and acquisitions advisor, Hampleton Partners, on the Enterprise Software and IT and Business Services sectors show consistent growth in transaction volume,…

Gartner analysis of vendors of data science and machine learning platforms

January 31, 2019

data science, Dataiku, DataRobot, Gartner, Google, IBM, machine learning, MathWorks, Microsoft, vendors

Expert data scientists, citizen data scientists and application developers require professional capabilities for building, deploying and managing analytical models. New vendors to what Gartner names the “magic quadrant”, along with…

Deutsche Bank: future of fintech shaped in next few years

October 19, 2018

APIs, artificial intelligence, ASIFMA, blockchain, cloud, Deutsche Bank, EY, Google, Microsoft

Forward-thinking regulation will be the catalyst for banking transformation, and the next few years will shape the future of financial technology, according to a Deutsche Bank white paper. This makes…

Tech giants eclipse banks in fintech patent race, report shows

August 2, 2018

Alibaba, Amazon, BAML, BNP Paribas, Cipher, Deutsche Bank, fintech, Google, IBM, Microsoft

The world’s fifteen largest banks combined own five times fewer fintech patents than IBM, four times fewer than Microsoft and half as many as Google, new research from patent research…

FactSet puts its data in Microsoft Azure’s cloud

July 25, 2018

cloud computing, Data, FactSet, Microsoft

FactSet launched a cloud-based data platform called Exploration. It helps financial professionals evaluate alternative and financial datasets and build investment applications in a Microsoft Azure environment. In addition, clients will…

FT: financial regulators scrutinize banks’ use of cloud

April 30, 2018

Amazon, Bank of England, cloud, Google, Microsoft, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Prudential Regulation Authority

Microsoft, Securities Lending

Financial regulators on both sides of the Atlantic have turned their attention to the cloud, as concerns mount over how to supervise online storage services, which hold information from the…

Microsoft increases use of non-cash collateral in securities lending

August 21, 2017

Josh Galper

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