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IT Infrastructure Visibility Is Crucial for DORA Compliance Excerpt: As DORA’s compliance deadline creeps closer, ensuring IT infrastructure resilience has never been as critical. This article highlights the importance of monitoring and observability to understand IT system behaviours and stay ahead of potential issues to avoid costly downtime. D...
17 July 2024 /regulation /devops
Jeff Mezger Vice President at Transaction Network Services
Effective trading infrastructure requires significant investment. As traders enter the market, become successful, and diversify their portfolios, their market data needs can place excessive network capacity pressures on their infrastructure. Traders need reliable connectivity and market data feeds to drive their trading. Many firms choose to work ...
11 July 2024 /markets
Guy Melamed CEO at Exberry
The financial industry is at a critical juncture. Exchanges worldwide are exploring future technological landscapes, grappling with frustrations and pain points in current systems. They're considering market evolution from multiple perspectives - business, regulatory and technological. We're witnessing a convergence of executive and technological ...
Ever-increasing digitalisation is propelling the world of financial services to act faster and do more than ever before. One side effect of this is the increased risk posed by the failure of critical suppliers. This is the reason EU regulators have introduced the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA), which will implement uniform rules for fin...
02 July 2024 /regulation /markets
We could potentially be seeing a transformative shift in the world of financial markets, as the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) seems to seriously be considering 24/7 trading. NYSE’s data team recently released a survey assessing the demand and feasibility of such a model, with questions focusing on preferences for overnight trading, investor prote...
03 June 2024 /markets
The phrase "Nobody gets fired for buying IBM" has been a steadfast mantra in the tech industry, underscoring the inclination to choose established, reliable vendors to sidestep blame when issues arise. Twenty years ago, everyone knew that choosing reputable brands, such as IBM, was the way to go. Yet, they were slow to implement and didn...
20 May 2024 /markets
Ambitious financial exchanges need to keep growing. Yet in the world of capital markets this is not always a straightforward task. Each jurisdiction has its own national characteristics and different way of doing things. If an exchange decides to build its own trading or clearing infrastructure, unless it is happy paying an exorbitant cost, it wil...
14 May 2024 /markets
Imagine a scenario in which a large, successful financial exchange is making profits across all its markets alike, from equities, fixed income and derivatives, to commodities and FX. Yet, sadly, this vision is far from reality. Oftentimes smaller and less liquid markets, such as for fixed income and derivatives, find it difficult to obtain the mod...
19 April 2024 /markets
Greater investment in hardware and networking needed to make cloud-based colocation and multicast a reality As some of the world’s largest financial industry participants gathered in Boca Raton last week, one fact that was hard not to miss was the increasing presence (and sponsorship) of the major cloud providers. These cloud providers are investin...
19 March 2024 /cloud /markets
Drake Paulson VP, Head of Partnership and Client Experience at Anduin Transactions
The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into business operations has moved beyond mere speculation to tangible ROI. Recognizing this shift, private equity firms are eager to position their portfolio companies at the forefront of reaping these benefits. Investment managers and venture capitalists are already trying their hand with AI, albei...
14 March 2024 /markets /predictions
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