Cloud
Alliances and experiments: Trading firms get innovative in 2023
Rebecca offers a recap of the year's most notable technology use-cases led by sell-side and buy-side institutions.
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Generative AI is here to stay, even if the path forward is unclear
Chatbots and large language models dominated the AI conversation this year with the expectation that 2024 will bring more innovation and use cases to the forefront.
Waters Wrap: Big Tech’s capital markets expansion continues
Anthony looks back at some of the major cloud and AI projects involving the likes of Amazon, Google, IBM, Microsoft, and/or Snowflake in 2023.
Hunting for reliable low latency, HFTs look to novel techs in 2023
WatersTechnology looks at advancements in market data latency technology and what role the cloud can play.
Multicast in the cloud—no longer a pipe dream
Colt Technology explains the process it went through to make it possible to distribute multicast market data in the cloud.
Operational resilience using the cloud
This webinar focuses on the business and operational benefits to firms on the back of their cloud strategies, across an industry that is often unforgiving to those not able to guarantee 100% uptime, operational robustness and competitiveness
Citi’s internal cloud project gets open-sourced
Through Finos, a project that started internally to help Citi get a better handle on its cloud controls now includes the likes of Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, RBC, BMO and LSEG.
Millennium Management enlists Google for building custom tech solutions
Google Cloud’s capital markets director Rohit Bhat details the cloud giant’s buy-side strategy.
Tick History – Query: Looking back to the future
The advantages of cloud-based services is well documented, from reduced upfront and ongoing operating and infrastructure costs to improved time-to-market for new services and datasets. Here, Tim Anderson, LSEG explains how the benefits of the service…
This Week: Nasdaq; Symphony/Google; Interop.io and more
A summary of the latest financial technology news.
Waters Wrap: Examining ASX’s CHESS do-over
The Australian exchange was the first exchange to be all-in on DLT—and the project failed. Anthony speaks with ASX’s Tim Whiteley to discuss the lessons learned and why he thinks the second attempt will succeed.
This Week: SimCorp/Deutsche Boerse, Moody's, SS&C, and more
A summary of the latest financial technology news.
Bulletproof building: DTCC, AWS debut app resiliency prototype
The cloud provider and industry utility have jointly released a prototype and guidelines for building resilient financial services applications.
The IMD Wrap: Are server life extensions putting profits before performance?
Cloud providers are having to make more hardware available to keep pace with takeup—including older machines that under previous policies would have been retired already. But the move is proving profitable … and risky.
RBC outlines hybrid cloud strategy, eyes genAI use cases
Technological innovation doesn’t always reap promised rewards. RBC’s head of cloud engineering talks about why the Canadian bank’s hybrid cloud strategy worked, and how it is approaching generative AI.
FactSet lays out AI blueprint for discoverability, workflows, and innovation
The data provider is utilizing generative AI and large language models to provide a conversational interface in FactSet Workstation that will complement AI-powered workflows and products.
Generative AI is changing debate on explainability, says Deutsche
The bank’s innovation head says observability can aid regulatory acceptance.
Deutsche Börse to merge SimCorp and Axioma, shuttering Qontigo
The German exchange also plans to have 70% of its ‘IT state’ in the cloud by 2026.
Waters Wrap: Reading the fixed-income tea leaves
A lot gets made about how much fixed income has been electronified. Anthony says that “percentage” ignores the important technological evolutions and strategic shifts being made by the vendor community.
IBM outlines ‘hybrid’ AI approach as revenues rise
It’s been two years since IBM’s pivot to a hybrid cloud and AI strategy, and the tech giant saw strong earnings as it continues to invest in the watsonx platform.
LSEG-Microsoft products on track for 2024 release
The exchange’s to-do list includes embedding its data, analytics, and workflows in the Microsoft Teams and productivity suite.
Nasdaq says SaaS business now makes up 37% of revenues
The exchange operator’s Q3 earnings bring the Adenza and Verafin acquisitions center stage.
Waters Wrap: Operational efficiency and managed services—a stronger connection
As cloud, AI, open-source, APIs and other technologies evolve, Anthony says the choice to buy or build is rapidly evolving for chief operating officers, too.
Waters Wavelength Podcast: Navigating the buy vs. build debate
Adaptive Financial Consulting’s Matt Barrett joins the podcast to discuss how firms decide to build or buy.