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Volksbank Wien Completes SaaS ‘Lift-and-Shift’ Project with Murex
Volksbank Wien, the central entity of an association of Austrian banks, and Murex, the trading and risk solutions vendor, have completed the migration of Murex’s MX.3 from bank premises into a private cloud hosting environment. The ‘lift-and-shift’ project also included an upgrade to the latest MX.3 release. In a nine-month project, Murex transferred the full…
Recorded Webinar: Transforming Data Experiences in Quantitative Research and Trading
For quantitative researchers and quant trading teams at banking and capital markets firms, the ability to access, integrate, and share data is critical. Data and how teams collaborate with data underpins the ability to generate alpha, perform execution analyses, and provide a modern and differentiated client experience. However, for most banks, legacy technology stacks and…
How Banks Harness the Value of Cloud for Scale and Agility
Financial services are recognizing the benefits that data-led processes can bring and are undergoing digital transformations that are putting data at the heart of their operations and decisions-making processes. They are seizing on data as an asset whose value can be unlocked through technology to increase revenue and reduce costs across the entire enterprise. With…
Man Group Partners with Bloomberg to Develop New DataFrame Database Product
Man Group, the technology-empowered global investment firm, has signed a multi-year open-source technology development and product integration agreement with Bloomberg, the financial information company, to build upon Man’s DataFrame database product, ArcticDB, and to integrate it into BQuant Bloomberg’s open source analytics platform. ArcticDB is a high-performance Python-native database, built in response to the challenges…
A-Team Webinar to Discuss Data Transformation in Quant Research and Trading
Quantitative workflows rely on sourcing, aggregating, normalising and managing data. This can be highly resource-intensive, leading to a situation where some financial institutions with quant shops are more focused on data management than on data science and modeling. So how can the data ingestion, management, and pipeline processes of quant workflows be streamlined, allowing quants…
A-Team Group’s Lorna Van Zyl Featured on FinTech Focus TV, Discussing TradingTech Summit London
In anticipation of this year’s TradingTech Summit London, we’re delighted that A-Team Group’s Head of Event Content, Lorna Van Zyl, was the star guest on the latest episode of FinTech Focus TV, talking with Toby Babb of Harrington Starr. In a wide-ranging interview, Lorna shares what goes on behind the scenes when putting the event…
The Top 10 Low Latency Data Feed Providers in 2023
Low latency data feeds have become a crucial component of today’s electronic financial markets. Not just for high-frequency trading firms, but across the industry. Buy side and sell side firms rely on fast, accurate market data to make informed decisions in real-time for a wide variety of use cases – from improving trading performance to…
Iress Partners with Megaport to Provide Global Cloud Connectivity for Market Data
Iress, the financial software, services and technology company, has entered into a strategic partnership with Megaport, a global Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) provider, to provide additional connectivity between Iress and all major public cloud service providers (CSPs), including AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform. The partnership will enable Iress clients to directly access global markets from…
swXtch.io Integrates Timebeat’s Precision Time Protocol into cloudSwXtch
Following the recent launch of its cloudSwXtch high performance networking product for the cloud, swXtch.io, a wholly-owned subsidiary of IEX Group, has deployed and integrated Timebeat’s Precision Time Protocol (PTP) into the cloudSwXtch technology, enabling clock synchronization across hybrid cloud networks. The integration of the Timebeat PTP into cloudSwXtch adds standard PTP access to the…
Microsoft and LSEG Launch 10-Year Strategic Partnership as Microsoft Takes 4% Equity Stake in LSEG
Microsoft and London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) have entered into a 10-year strategic partnership, under which LSEG’s data infrastructure will be architected using the Microsoft Cloud and the two companies will jointly develop new products and services for data and analytics. Microsoft has also agreed to purchase shares in LSEG that would result in Microsoft…