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DTCC Takes Core Clearing Infrastructure to Public Cloud in Landmark Migration
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) is migrating core clearance and settlement systems to a public cloud infrastructure for the first time, in a move that marks one of the most significant architectural shifts in US post-trade infrastructure since the organisation’s formation. The announcement, made on 15 April, confirms that DTCC will use Amazon…
Exchange Technology 2.0: Future-Proofing Exchange Architecture
By Ian Salmon, Head of Product Marketing, Adaptive. Exchange technology is back under strategic review, but not in the narrow sense of another performance upgrade cycle. Across the market, venue operators are reassessing the foundations of their platforms because the environment around them is becoming more demanding, more diverse and less predictable. For some, that…
Avelacom Launches Lowest Latency Hybrid Route Between Amsterdam and Tokyo
Avelacom, a global provider of low-latency network solutions, has launched a new hybrid fibre and microwave route connecting Amsterdam and Tokyo. The route achieves a round-trip latency of less than 127 milliseconds, establishing a new benchmark for connectivity between Europe and Asian digital asset markets. This expansion complements the company’s existing ultra-low latency infrastructure linking…
TNS Unifies Financial Markets Business Under Waypoint Brand
Two months after completing its acquisition of BT’s Radianz business, Transaction Network Services (TNS) has launched Waypoint Trading Solutions, a unified brand encompassing connectivity, low-latency trading infrastructure and managed market data operations. Waypoint Trading Solutions officially launched on 8th April, bringing together TNS’s existing financial markets capabilities with the Radianz extranet business it acquired from…
LSEG and Dell Technologies Announce Multi-Year Private Cloud Collaboration
LSEG has entered into a multi-year agreement with Dell Technologies to develop a new private cloud platform and optimise its existing on-premises infrastructure. This initiative is designed to bolster the resilience and performance of various Data & Analytics and Markets platforms that function outside of LSEG’s current public cloud environments. As part of this collaboration,…
Avelacom Expands Latin American Reach with Direct Connection to nuam Exchange Infrastructure
Avelacom, the global provider of low-latency network solutions, has expanded its presence in Latin America by establishing a direct connection to nuam, the holding company integrating the stock exchanges of Chile, Colombia, and Peru. The company has deployed a new physical point of presence (PoP) at the Equinix ST1 data centre in Santiago, Chile. This…
Determinism is the New Speed: Why High Performance Trading Infrastructure is Being Redefined Around Provability
The definition of high performance in trading infrastructure is shifting. Raw speed, once the key benchmark, is increasingly being subsumed into a broader set of requirements around determinism, provability and architectural simplicity. For firms operating in fragmented, event-driven and increasingly automated markets, the competitive edge is no longer measured in nanoseconds alone, it lies in…
STS Digital Launches Structured Products Platform, Deepening Kraken Partnership
STS Digital, the regulated digital-asset derivatives firm, has launched what it describes as a first-to-market structured products platform for institutional investors, extending the principal dealer model it has built across crypto options into a broader range of yield enhancement, capital protection and bespoke structuring capabilities. The platform, which targets banks, institutional investors, family offices, external…
McKay Brothers and Quincy Data Launch High-Speed Services Linking Illinois Futures Markets with Sydney Trading Hubs
McKay Brothers and Quincy Data are launching new services connecting Illinois futures markets with major trading facilities in Sydney, Australia. The services link the CME in Aurora and ICE Futures in Chicago with Sydney’s Australian Liquidity Centre and Equinix SY5, which host ASX and Cboe Australia respectively. McKay Brothers will offer private transport capacity, while…
Data Platform Modernisation: Why The Hardest Problems Are No Longer Technical
Capital markets firms pursuing data platform modernisation have largely solved the technical challenges of compute and storage, but the organisational, governance and architectural decisions surrounding those platforms remain stubbornly difficult, according to practitioners from Northern Trust, RBC Wealth Management and LSEG, speaking at a recent A-Team Group webinar entitled Data platform modernisation: Best practice approaches…