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Waters Wrap: As quantum’s skeptics grow in number, believers need better messaging
As you explore ways to use genAI, do you benefit from having ML and NLP experts on staff who have followed AI evolution for years? Anthony thinks that’s an important question when talking about quantum exploration.
The IMD Wrap: Talkin’ ’bout my generation
As a Gen-Xer, Max tells GenAI to get off his lawn—after it's mowed it, watered it and trimmed the shrubs so he can sit back and enjoy it.
Has cloud cracked the multicast ‘holy grail’ for exchanges?
An examination of how exchanges—already migrating to the cloud—are working to solve the problem of multicasting in a new environment.
Getting the message out about Aeron’s messaging
A year after Adaptive’s acquisition of Real Logic’s Aeron, the search for users of the open-source tech continues as Adaptive promises that UDP messaging can usurp TCP.
Snowflake partners with BMLL in another big tech-fintech tie up
The collaboration comes as part of both companies’ desire to eliminate end users’ need for intensive data engineering, as well as costly in-house data storage.
Nasdaq moves second matching engine to AWS cloud
The exchange and its cloud partner are encouraged by the smooth migration so far—and also by capacity and latency improvements from running in the cloud.
Banks call for direct oversight of cloud providers by US regulators
Tri-opoly of cloud vendors “poses systemic risk” to financial sector, say risk managers
Inside look: How Big Tech is using generative AI to win over finance
Execs from Amazon, Google and IBM explain their capital markets strategy when it comes to rolling out new AI tools.
Goldman’s Marquee is a gradual revelation
Multiple apps are being corralled into a sticky cross-asset ecosystem, updated with Python and cloud
Amazon bullish on AWS growth, signals more investment in generative AI
Tech giant’s cloud computing arm grew customer base in Q2 despite cost-cutting among users
Waters Wrap: Big Tech’s subtle plans for capital markets domination
Amazon, Google, IBM and Microsoft aren't just cloud providers anymore—and their tentacles are going to spread deep into trading systems going forward.
Dora ‘critical tech vendor’ designation could cast a wide net
Experts think cloud services, data providers and software firms are all in regulators’ sights.
This Week: DTCC shelves Investor Kinetics; LTX’s BondGPT; Citi HK settlement; and more
A summary of the latest financial technology news.
What does it take to put a database in the cloud?
There are several ways to migrate an old legacy system to the cloud, but there's always a trade-off.
From ChatGPT to BloombergGPT: In capital markets, who can make the most of large language models?
Capital markets are no strangers to hype machines. Among the buzz around generative AI, Nyela wonders who will be best suited to take advantage of the technology and deliver the right use cases to Wall Street.
Waters Wrap: Blockchain—let’s put the hammer back in the box
With the ASX Chess DLT failure and users ignoring DTCC’s DLT option for its Trade Information Warehouse, Anthony wonders what it will take for the industry to stop touting this buzzword for non-specialized needs.
This Week: Tradeweb, LTX/AWS, Bloomberg and more
A summary of the latest financial technology news.
Ice exec rejects cloud for critical infrastructure
FIA Boca 2023: SVP Bland “can’t imagine” outsourcing critical infrastructure; DRW’s Wilson warns of concentration risk
This Week: S&P/AWS, Deutsche Börse/Google Cloud, Tradeweb, & more
A summary of the latest financial technology news.
Waters Wrap: For data managers, the new problems are the same as the old
While much attention has been given to cloud, AI, blockchain and other buzzwords, without a proper data foundation, those tools will not deliver the results that have been promised.
Here’s what ML and NLP powered in capital markets in 2022
As machine learning and natural language processing continue to spread across the industry, WatersTechnology highlights stories from 2022 that feature new use cases.
In 2022, cloud shows true potential to displace legacy data platforms
Once wary of the cloud, financial firms, their suppliers and the marketplaces where they trade are openly embracing it. And there are more signs of big tech firms accelerating buy-in by literally buying in to clients’ migration projects.
Waters Wrap: Big Tech, exchanges and a rapidly evolving market
Following LSEG’s partnership with Microsoft, Anthony talks with some industry participants to explore what this might mean for exchange tech going forward.
Could cloud kill the data licensing debate and shake up pricing models?
Market participants say cloud has the potential to reimagine data licensing. But moving to the new operational model comes with a raft of unanswered questions.