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As the financial markets become ever more global, investors are looking to access more trading venues wherever they are in the world. Expansion is being encouraged in a large part by the key exchanges that provide pools of liquidity and that are acting as gateways to new and emerging markets.
With a growing number of exchanges, trading platforms and market participants joining the BT Radianz Cloud community, we have an important role to play in making this happen. Exchanges have joined us this year in Brazil, New Zealand and Chicago, and we now also offer access to the BT Radianz Cloud from 21 data centres, as well as hosting in 12 locations around the world. BT Radianz Venue Interconnect is available at nine third-party data centres globally, providing low-latency connectivity to trading venues in the key financial centres of Milan, Stockholm, Singapore, Sydney and Tokyo.
Our investment in the technology, scale and global reach of our cloud infrastructure goes on as these new members join our community and we look forward to welcoming many more over the coming months.
Robin Farnan, MD, BT Financial Technology Services, BT
Read more about our BT Unified Trading and BT Radianz portfolios, or contact julie.5.scott@bt.com to arrange an appointment.
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NZX expands global reach through BT Radianz services
BT and NZX, the integrated information, markets and infrastructure company, have announced that the New Zealand market operator's trading and market data services will now be accessible to members of the BT Radianz Cloud community...read more
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BT launches service offering out of CME Group's Aurora data centre
BT has entered into an agreement with CME Group enabling the BT Radianz Cloud community to access CME's trading and market data services. The BT Radianz Cloud platform has been extended into CME Group's data centre in Aurora, Illinois, where BT can also now deliver the latest generation of BT Radianz managed hosting services. The deal aims to produce a cost-effective solution for the financial community to participate in CME's derivatives markets...
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BT Radianz Cloud opens gateway to Latin American markets
BT has welcomed BM&FBOVESPA Brazil's largest securities, commodities and futures exchange to its financial services cloud community. One of the largest listed exchange groups in the world, the second largest in the Americas, and the leading exchange in Latin America, BM&FBOVESPA is making its market data available to financial institutions globally via the BT Radianz Cloud, helping it to reduce its time to market and the costs of technology infrastructure for its users.
The BT Radianz Cloud community includes around 500 member locations in Latin America and BT operates in 22 countries across the region...read more
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BT Radianz services now available from Interxion's City of London data centre campus
BT is to offer a range of its BT Radianz services to the City of London data centre campus of Interxion, the European provider of carrier-neutral co-location data centre services.
The BT Radianz Cloud platform has been extended into Interxion's campus platform enabling direct access for the BT Radianz Cloud community. BT Radianz Hosting services for remote management of customers' network and IT can also be offered inside the Interxion data centre. In addition, Interxion's customers can benefit from the availability of BT Radianz Venue Interconnect, which provides optimised low-latency connectivity with data centres in five key financial centres Milan, Stockholm, Singapore, Sydney and Tokyo...read more
Michael Cooper talks to lowlatency.com: "We have extended our capability to include the Interxion London data centre because of the strength of the existing financial market ecosystem there that includes a number of our clients markets they wish to access and their desire to reach other key liquidity venues in Europe and Asia." |
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Lack of action on mobile voice recording |
In November 2011 the FSA mandated that all calls to and from mobile phones involving financial trades should be recorded.
The requirements specify that financial firms take 'reasonable' steps to record any conversations made on a mobile that related to financial transactions such as those in the bond, derivatives, equities and financial commodities markets. The change was expected to affect more than 16,000 financial firms (although some experts say the reality was this was only estimated to target around 25,000 actual handsets). But according to a survey published late last year by FStech and TeleWare nearly a third of firms have not yet complied with the regulations.
TeleWare's global marketing director Lesley Hansen and head of product management at BT Financial Technology Services Tim Furmidge, talked to FSTech's Liz Morrell about the current state of play...read more
BT and TeleWare joined forces in 2011 to provide the market with a secure, easy to use and cost-effective solution for mobile device recording.
BT for Regulatory Compliance white paper
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BT boosts cloud cover across four continents
BT has launched BT Cloud Compute, an enhanced service that allows CIOs far greater control in terms of designing, building, buying and operating a cloud solution that is tailored to their specific needs.
BT research has shown that customers using BT Cloud Compute make an average saving of 40 per cent against traditional ways of working. By using BT's advanced cloud orchestration of infrastructure, network, applications and services, customers can align costs directly to their business needs.
With services hosted in more than 45 data centres around the globe and managed by customers through a self-service dashboard, BT Cloud Compute's cloud infrastructure uses industry standard secure data centres located in Brazil, Colombia, US, UK, Spain, Benelux, France, Italy, Singapore and Hong Kong and will soon be in Germany, China, India, Argentina and Mexico
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BT Cloud Compute datasheet
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BT's outsource partnership acclaimed
BT and Standard Life were voted Outsourcing Partnership of the Year at the 2013 FStech Awards on 17 April.
BT signed a five-year outsourcing deal with Standard Life in December 2011 to manage the company's communications infrastructure and to support Standard Life's need for a standardised and integrated voice and data platform across its international operations. It now provides domestic and international network services to the company's 16 UK offices, as well as to centres in Boston, Chennai, Dublin, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Hyderabad Aida, Montreal, Paris, Pune, and Sydney.
The agreement included the delivery and management of a BT Connect local area network (LAN) and wide area network (WAN). It also covered IP telephony, contact centres, contract management, service management, and the transition of the infrastructure to BT IP Connect.
Download the Standard Life case study
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Awards for BT Radianz Cloud
BT Radianz Cloud was named Best Cloud Provider to the Sell Side in the first annual Sell-Side Technology Awards, held on Tuesday 23 April at the Marriott Marquis in New York.
BT Radianz was also Highly Commended in the Best Cloud Computing Services Provider category at the HFMWeek European Hedge Fund Services Awards 2013 on 25 April where Alex Foster (pictured left) and Michael Cooper, (right) accepted the award on behalf of BT...read more |
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BT a leader in the Network Service Providers Magic Quadrant again
Just four months after being positioned in the 'Leaders' quadrant for Gartner's Asia-Pacific Network Service Providers Magic Quadrant, BT has also been positioned in the 'Leaders' quadrant for the Global Network Service Providers Magic Quadrant for the ninth time.
Gartner has also rated BT Global Services as 'outstanding' in overall product viability in its new Critical Capabilities report for Pan-European Network Services. The report evaluates 13 vendors, including BT Global Services, against seven critical product capabilities: managed MPLS VPNs, Ethernet Services, managed Internet VPNs and hybrid IP WANs, Internet Access, SIP trunking & TDM voice trunks, managed WAN optimisation and application performance management, managed LAN & WAN.
View the reports: Magic Quadrant for Global Network Service Providers
Critical Capabilities for Pan-European Network Services
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Ovum Decision Matrix: Telco Network Services for multinational corporations in Asia-Pacific
BT Global Services has been successfully exporting its vertical experience from its domestic market into Asia Pacific for some time and it has now been ranked as a market leader in the Ovum Decision Matrix: Telco Network Services for MNCs in Asia-Pacific.
The report recommends that multinational corporations especially those looking for a one-stop shop for global network IT related services should place BT on their shortlist for the following reasons:
- It has a sophisticated, services oriented approach that relies on its professional services capabilities
- It offers a broad range of end to end services that includes cloud computing, UC, video, data center, and IT services
- It has high scores in customer support and problem resolution.
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BT cloud offering wins international accolades
BT has again been recognised as a leading cloud supplier in Germany by the analysts of Experton Group in its latest Cloud Vendor Benchmark 2013 report. BT was rated as a 'leader' in the 'Managed Cloud', 'Managed Private Cloud', 'Cloud Services for mid-size companies', and 'Cloud Transformation' categories.
BT has also been ranked the third largest provider of cloud infrastructure services in the world after Amazon and IBM by industry analyst Synergy Research Group...read more |
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The implications of European regulatory change
Sponsored by BT, the fifth plenary meeting of the Clearing & Settlement Working Group (CAS-WG) took place at the end of March and concluded with a panel discussion about the future for the City and the UK financial system in light of European regulatory change...read more |
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Chicago - where the Big Data grows
Data volumes coming out of the Chicago derivatives markets have been growing and the world is not governed by Moore's Law, where processors double in power every 18 months, but by Butters' Law for networks where network capacity doubles every nine months. That means you've got an exponentially-increasing difference between the volume of incoming data that you have to process and your firm's capability to process that data...read more |
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25 years of the German Exchange
Twenty-five years ago Germany had eight separate securities exchanges, of which Düsseldorf was the largest, and it had no derivatives exchanges in fact, derivatives trading was classed in the same regulatory category as gambling. Deutsche Börse Group is one of the largest exchange operators in the world, and big enough to buy almost any exchange in the world
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Why embracing cloud is common sense
As a leading provider of enterprise cloud services in the world, we're helping organisations take advantage of the simplicity cloud offers them.
The thing many organisations seem to be reluctant to believe - but which is true all the same - is that cloud is easy...read more |
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How digitising the world might split the atom
Ten years ago, the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) was very 'atomic'. It was all about a trading pit, bits of paper and the value-add was to confirm that the trades actually happened. Now ASX has a digital platform in a data centre collocated with the computers of the brokers, clearers and other service providers...read more |
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The Global Century of the individual: connectivity, empowerment and a new canvas for business
For much of the last century, film and literature has revelled in visions of a dystopian tomorrow. An unbroken thread that runs through each imagined future a culture premised on a pessimistic notion that, while technology will surpass our wildest expectations, it will inevitably stifle the freedom of the individual. But in fact, humanity's story has largely been one of increasing individual freedom...read more |
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