Amazon Web Services has introduced High I/O instances for its EC2 compute cloud, leveraging solid-state disks (SSDs) to speed up storage I/O. The SSDs can deliver 120,000+ read and 80,000 write operations per second. Although pitched at companies providing consumer apps, such performance would help to make AWS more attractive to running financial analytics, perhaps on time series data.
Unstructured data and text now accounts for the majority of information flowing through financial markets organisations, spanning research content, corporate disclosures, communications, alternative data, and internal documents. While AI has created new opportunities to extract signals, many firms are discovering that value is constrained not by models, but by the quality of the content, architecture,...
A-Team Group has announced the winners of the inaugural AI in Capital Markets Awards 2025, celebrating the most innovative and impactful applications of artificial intelligence and machine learning across the global financial markets. The new awards programme recognises technologies that have moved beyond proof-of-concept to deliver measurable value, supporting efficiency, resilience, and insight generation across...
Now in its 16th year, the Data Management Summit (DMS) in London brings together the European capital markets enterprise data management community, to explore how data strategy is evolving to drive business outcomes and speed to market in changing times.
After what looked like a slow start to the summer, the initiative to establish a global standard for legal entity identifiers (LEIs) took a series of significant leaps forward during August, that appears to have put the project firmly back on track. If the marketplace felt a little reticent in June and July, it could...
