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BT’s Pickles on a Cloud Technology Approach to Dealing with Post-Trade Infrastructure Change

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Reference Data Review speaks with BT Global Banking & Financial Markets’ head of industry initiatives Chris Pickles about the changing dynamics in market infrastructure that have happened over the last few years and how they have affected the post-trade messaging space. Pickles explains the benefits of a cloud approach to this space such as the rationalisation of internal and external messaging and the generation of economies of scale.

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