GoldenSource is making its data management offerings available on the AWS Marketplace — a website for third-party software, data, and services that run in an Amazon Web Services environment. The move will help the enterprise data management (EDM) solutions provider sell its wares to a wider market and collaborate with the AWS go-to-market team, GoldenSource… Read More >>
ISDA Docs Expert Launches Online Course & Other News
Course Targets Firms that Use ISDA Master Agreements Edyta Knizewska, a derivatives documentation expert, reports that she is offering an online course about “understanding and negotiating ISDA Master Agreements.” The master agreements “govern over-the-counter derivatives transactions,” and Knizewska, a legal consultant, negotiator and derivatives lawyer wants to offer her experience through her ISDA Lab course…. Read More >>
AWS Outage Halted FINRA Systems on Dec. 7
Key online systems of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) were unavailable on Tuesday, Dec. 7, because of an outage at cloud computing provider Amazon Web Services (AWS) that lasted about seven hours, according to alerts from the self-regulatory organization and Amazon. AWS has become a major cloud provider for financial services firms, particularly those… Read More >>
Goldman Sachs & AWS Partner to Offer Analytics Services
Collaboration Takes Aim at Developers’ Burdens Goldman Sachs and Amazon Web Services (AWS) will be launching a suite of cloud-based data and analytics solutions for financial institutions, dubbed the Goldman Sachs Financial Cloud for Data, officials announced at the AWS re:Invent conference this week in Las Vegas. The cloud-native Goldman Sachs Financial Cloud for Data… Read More >>
BMO-AWS Partnership Covers Capital Markets, Too
BMO Financial Group will be using Amazon Web Services (AWS) as its preferred cloud provider for a “digital first” strategy that will be implemented across BMO as a “scalable and highly available” platform for many businesses, including capital markets operations. BMO will move “strategic workloads to AWS that support its retail and commercial banking, investment… Read More >>
SWIFT Makes Sibos Virtual for 2021
Sibos to Be In-Person for 2022 The international financial services operations conference known as Sibos, produced by the SWIFT consortium, and slated for October of this year will be a virtual event, officials have confirmed. The conference in 2022 has been slated to be an in-person event. “The Covid-19 pandemic continues to impact the way… Read More >>
LME to Automate Client Onboarding
LME to Use Itiviti’s FIX-based Offerings London Metal Exchange (LME) will be automating its client onboarding process with the help of FIX protocol-based offerings from technology and service provider Itiviti, officials say. The exchange will use Itiviti’s FIX Conductor and VeriFIX Enterprise solutions for onboarding as part of the LME’s effort “to refresh its overall… Read More >>
Nasdaq Data Now Available via Cloud Service
Exchanges operator Nasdaq recently hit a COVID-19 speed bump as it was preparing to launch its Nasdaq Cloud Data Service (NCDS), which uses application programming interfaces (APIs) to provide access to real-time exchange data, indexes, and fund data. Before a full launch, Nasdaq had to find out if the implementation of the new offering would… Read More >>
RegTek Launches EMIR-Focused Reporting Service
The push to be ready for the next phase of the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II) reforms is not the only European regulatory initiative that global firms have to worry about. On November 1, firms face a deadline to comply with the revised reporting specifications (RTS) required by the European Securities and Markets… Read More >>
Convergex to Deploy AWS-Based Ancoa Monitoring
Ancoa’s Platform Relies Upon Amazon Web Services (AWS) Convergex, an agency global brokerage, is using the market surveillance platform from vendor Ancoa to monitor trading activity across its domestic U.S. and international cash equities and options brokerage businesses to bolster compliance with U.S. and international market abuse regulations. The cloud-based deployment uses Amazon Web Services (AWS),… Read More >>
