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Public cloud adoption in financial services – challenges and opportunities

By Tim Brazier Posted 22/09/2017

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Public cloud adoption in financial services – challenges and opportunities

Part two – regulation and compliance In the first of this series, I outlined the key challenges and opportunities presented to financial services (FS) organisations adopting public cloud technology. In this ...

Why SFTR compliance is an opportunity for greater data insight

By Paul Burleton Posted 15/09/2017

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Why SFTR compliance is an opportunity for greater data insight

The introduction of the Securities Finance Transaction Reporting (SFTR) directive, will give financial institutions an ideal opportunity to consolidate and improve their approach to data management. However, will firms take ...

Google Cloud Spanner – the next big transformation in financial services?

By Andrew Rossiter Posted 07/09/2017

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Google Cloud Spanner – the next big transformation in financial services?

Cloud database technologies continue to evolve at pace - handling huge amounts of data, scaling horizontally and not costing the earth. With the launch of Google Cloud Spanner, banks can now ...

FX operations: The next frontier for mutualisation

New paper on challenges affecting FX

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In search of the rarest of breeds – a Data Scientist for your AI Project

By Richard Miller Posted 11/09/2017

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In search of the rarest of breeds – a Data Scientist for your AI Project

The position of Data Scientist is rapidly becoming a highly desired role as financial institutions consider how to implement Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) projects within their organisations. ...

Regulatory Transaction Reporting in the Cloud

By Ami Grewal Posted 07/09/2017

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Regulatory Transaction Reporting in the Cloud

Today, Financial Services companies spend millions of dollars building applications and infrastructure to support regulatory reporting. By November 2019, FINRA will require financial services companies to implement Consolidated Audit Trail ...

Why migrating to the cloud offers more security than you might think

By Stephan Kotze Posted 22/08/2017

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Why migrating to the cloud offers more security than you might think

Earlier this year my bike was stolen from my apartment block in London. Sadly I was not the only victim as a number of my neighbours also had their bikes ...

30 Years GFT: “We felt like real pioneers”

By Annabelle Seibt Posted 27/07/2017

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30 Years GFT: “We felt like real pioneers”

GFT celebrates a milestone birthday this year. It has now been 30 years since today’s company of 5,000 people was founded in the quaint Black Forest town of St Georgen. ...

Artificial Intelligence: Why now?

By Richard Miller Posted 26/07/2017

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Artificial Intelligence: Why now?

For the last 35 years Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been promising much yet not delivering outside of the academic world. So what exactly is AI? There is actually a fair ...

Stage Five: Optimize | How to make the most of the Cloud

By Roberto De Micheli Posted 29/06/2017

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Stage Five: Optimize | How to make the most of the Cloud

It’s impossible to leverage all the benefits that come with cloud adoption without also implementing appropriate migration and governance strategies. Optimization will also feature significantly in this process. As cloud ...