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European Commission to invest EUR10 million in IT Cloud Partnership

The European Commission is to pump EUR10 million into the formation of a European Cloud Partnership with the aim of drawing up a common set of standards between suppliers and buyers.

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BBVA banks on Google cloud

Google has scored its biggest ever enterprise contract, convincing Spanish banking group BBVA to migrate its entire 110,000-strong workforce to the cloud-based Google Apps suite.

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Deutsche Bank scoops best practice cloud technology award

Deutsche Bank's deployment of cloud technology has been lauded as an example of best practice in enterprise computing by the Open Data Centre Alliance (ODCA).

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Cloud-based payments start-up targeting SMBs launches

MineralTree, a US start-up providing cloud-based payment services specifically designed for small and medium businesses, has formally launched after securing $1.5 million in funding.

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Cloud banking set to go mainstream - Gartner

Analyst house Gartner predicts that by the end of 2015, consumers will initiate at least 10% of all banking interactions indirectly via cloud service-based exchanges and portals.

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ANZ CIO cool on the cloud

The prospect of cloud computing making a big impression in the Australian financial services sector in the near future appear bleak, with regulatory concerns continuing to hold back use of the technology, according to ANZ CIO Anne Weatherston.

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Xignite raises $10m to push market data in the cloud

Market data cloud provider Xignite has raised $10 million in a series b funding round led by StarVest Partners.

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State Street implements private cloud

State Street is rolling out a private cloud environment to provide clients with access to data and analysis in real time.

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Nyse Euronext to offer trading in the cloud

Nyse Euronext's tech unit has teamed with VMWare and EMC on a cloud-based platform offering capital markets participants secure, on-demand services.

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UK finance sector CIOs wary of cloud hype

The vast majority of CIOs at UK financial services firms think that cloud technology has been over-hyped and it poses the same challenges as any other big IT transition, according to a SunGard-sponsored survey.

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Financial services IT spending on the up - Bloomberg survey

More than three quarters of financial services industry technology executives expect to increase their IT spending over the next year, according to a Bloomberg survey which also suggests a shift to greater use of hosted services.

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Online security set to be critical imperative for banking industry

Online bank security is set to emerge as a hot industry topic over the coming months and years, with the White House set to release plans for a national digital identity strategy, Federal agencies sitting on new proposals for strengthening bank-to-customer authentication, and the emergence of new online channels and technologies such as social media and cloud computing.