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Obstacles to Cloud Adoption
By Mike Powell, CEO, Rapid Addition. We’ve already talked about what’s driving capital markets’ growing interest in cloud technologies, and discussed what the real world currently looks like, in earlier blogs (here, here and here). But practitioners accept that the journey to cloud isn’t entirely an easy one. Even for committed capital markets protagonists, cloud…
BT Partners with Flexenet to Enhance Cloud-Based Trading Communications
BT and Flexenet have announced a partnership to offer Flexenet Private Wires connectivity, fully integrated with BT’s Trading unified communications and collaboration (UCC) platform. The partnership aims to facilitate secure, compliant, high-performance real-time trading for customers worldwide. The BT Trading platform, engineered for global capital markets, can be integrated with unified communications systems from Microsoft…
Beeks and IPC Systems Deploy Advanced Private Cloud Solution for Johannesburg Stock Exchange
Beeks Group, providers of managed cloud computing, and electronic trading solutions vendor IPC Systems, have announced the implementation of a managed infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) solution for the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE). The collaboration will provide a private and hybrid computing infrastructure offering, accessible globally at prime colocation facilities. This end-to-end solution combines market data and trade…
Navigating the Future of Cloud-Based Market Data Delivery Solutions
Market data infrastructure’s transition to the cloud has gathered significant pace recently, driven by the growing recognition of benefits such as enhanced accessibility, flexible distribution, superior scalability, increased efficiency, and the potential for considerable cost reductions in both sourcing and managing data. As use cases for market data in the cloud grow, notably in areas…
Redefining Interoperability: Behind the Glue42 and Finsemble Merger
Introduction The competitive landscape in the field of desktop interoperability has long been dominated by three key players: Glue42, Finsemble, and OpenFin. The recently announced merger of Glue42 and Finsemble to form a new company, interop.io, heralds the beginning of a new chapter in the fast evolving interoperability and desktop integration space. The rationale behind…
Are Capital Markets Firms Really Benefitting From Cloud?
By Mike Powell, CEO, Rapid Addition. In our earlier blogs (here and here), we discussed the factors driving increased adoption of cloud technology by capital markets firms seeking to benefit from potential efficiencies. But what do their real-world experiences look like? And are firms realizing the benefits promised by cloud vendors? It may be difficult…
C. Hoare & Co. Deploys Integral to Enhance FX Services
C. Hoare & Co., the UK’s oldest privately-owned bank, has deployed cloud-based SaaS FX technology from Integral, the currency technology provider, to offer competitive FX rates and market liquidity access to its business and personal account customers. By providing the bank with liquidity aggregation, an FX pricing engine and API distribution to customers, Integral is…
Recorded Webinar: Market Data in the Cloud: Fuelling the next generation of data delivery solutions
Moving market data and infrastructure to the cloud has accelerated in recent years as financial firms have acknowledged the benefits of data accessibility, scalability, efficiency and the possibility of reducing sometimes sky-high costs of sourcing and managing the data. Market data in the cloud also offers a low-cost development environment and is finding use case…
How to Make the Most of Market Data
The challenges of sourcing, managing and monitoring market data are well rehearsed, but solutions are emerging as financial institutions zero in on their requirements, and data vendors respond. Short term, cost, coverage, accuracy, user rights and compliance are key concerns. Longer term, new approaches to market data such as pay-as-you-go pricing, packaged data and software…
Cboe Europe Indices Now Included in BMLL Data Suite
Level 3 data and analytics provider BMLL has announced the integration of Cboe Europe Indices into its product suite, enhancing its existing Cboe historical data coverage for Europe, US, and Japan. This strategic move furthers BMLL’s commitment to expanding its data coverage for the benefit of global market participants. BMLL’s clients, ranging from banks and…