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"At the heart of the digital world of computing is an analogue device – the human being. The goal of our Collaboration Suite is to augment that human being's intelligence through technology.
Our new platform extends the capacity of the human mind to process data. It provides traders with the tools to operate in the most efficient way, be it through interaction, conversations or transactions, breaking down the barriers of physical and proprietary hardware switches via an open, software-based model that can be distributed across a trading firm through the 'cloud'. Integrating with electronic trading platforms, it turns voice into text that can populate fields in order management systems.
The move to the cloud brings with it a massive reduction in the data centre space required to perform these functions. In the days of analogue equipment, the largest trading floors needed up to 200 racks of equipment – the equivalent of a basketball court. Going digital reduced this to around 20 racks – about the size of a squash court. Switchless open components can cut that data centre space down to just two racks, about the size of a pool table, saving power and CO2 emissions as well as space."
Find out more about BT's roadmap for trading communications here – and please send us your feedback by emailing Julie.5.scott@bt.com
Howard Boville, Global Head of Trading Communications, Global Banking and Financial Markets, BT
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The Future Delivered moves to Singapore and Hong Kong |
Agility, cost effectiveness, customer focus, global liquidity and compliance were on the agenda again as our Future Delivered roadshow moved to Asia in March.
Over 100 financial services delegates and 19 members of the press and analyst community attended the two events in Singapore and Hong Kong showcasing BT's Collaboration Suite.
"We've taken a strategic view to invest heavily in Hong Kong and the rest of the region," explains Kevin Taylor, BT's president for Asia Pacific: "We are growing at about 10% per annum in this region. We're hiring another 300 people in the region; the key hiring places are the financial services hotspots – Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore, Sydney and Mumbai."
Next stops for the roadshow are Madrid in May and Toronto in June.
The Trade News: Silver lining for traders as BT extends its cloud in Asia |
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BT opens new technology showcase in Singapore
With four regional service centres in Mumbai, Pune, Dalian and Sydney, five regional service desks in Beijing, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur and Tokyo, and two next generation research centres in Beijing and Malaysia, BT is firmly embedded in the Asia Pacific region.
Now BT has opened a new technology showcase in Singapore, in addition to its technology showcases in Hong Kong, Sydney, Beijing and New Delhi. The Singapore facility brings video conferencing equipment and networked IT applications together under one roof, enabling business customers to interact directly with technologies and services including wide area network optimisation, next-generation contact centres, unified communications, IP telephony and other ICT innovations...read more |
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BT Global Services a "leader" in Asia Pacific and a "challenger" in North America
BT Global Services has been positioned in the "leaders" quadrant in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Asia Pacific Network Service Providers. It is also positioned in the "challengers" quadrant in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Communications Outsourcing and Professional Services, North America...read more |
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BT wins top accolade for cloud computing innovation
BT Radianz Managed Infrastructure carried off the winning award in a new category, Cloud Computing Innovation of the Year, at the Financial Sector Technology 2011 awards.
The new MD of BT Radianz and Payments, José Antonio Martinez (pictured left) and President GB&FM Andy Nicholson (right) at a gala dinner in London in March.
The winning entry demonstrated how cloud computing innovation has brought customers cost and efficiency benefits, said the judges...read more |
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BT's Managed Secure Messaging application for financial institutions
Codel Digital Notary is a new service from BT that allows financial institutions to protect and prove the integrity of electronic data such as messages, files and documents. The application is available to financial institutions via the BT Radianz Managed Infrastructure connectivity and hosting platform that provides connectivity to more than 400 financial content and service providers including the 10 leading global stock exchanges, top 50 global broker-dealers and 48 of the 50 largest global asset managers.
BT also recently launched its Managed Secure Messaging service, which allows the financial community to exchange messages securely, reliably and in a non-repudiable manner over BT private networks and the internet for all of its business activities. The service is designed to meet the security requirements of banks, clearing houses and securities depositories as well as corporate treasurers
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BT launches compliance consultancy service for mobile recording
BT's new Mobility Compliance Quick Start consultancy service helps firms address forthcoming compliance requirements. By 14 November 2011 all UK-based financial services firms will need to record all mobile communications made on their fixed or mobile devices and archive them for at least six months...read more
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BT presents new cloud services at CeBIT 2011
BT presented two new cloud services in February at the digital industry's biggest annual trade show in Hanover. Virtual Data Centre (VDC) On Demand delivers pre-provisioned hosted data centre infrastructure that enables customers to create, deploy, monitor and manage their own service on demand through a secure self-service. Managed Virtual Firewall Service allows companies to fully protect their internet access without having to invest in their own hardware or software...read more |
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BT expands Brazil data centre to offer cloud-based services on a global scale
BT is expanding its data centre in Brazil in order to meet the increasing demands of large organisations for virtualisation and cloud based services. Located in one of BT's global operations centres, the expansion of the Hortolândia facility in São Paulo State will make BT's Virtual Data Centre service available to global clients and provide them with Infrastructure-as-a-Service...read more. |
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Too much information?
Market data technology vendors continually examine how we optimize moving data from its source to our analytics systems and then onto order systems and execution venues as quickly as possible by moving source and trading engine closer to each other, writes Howard Boville...
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Industry verticals and financial services
Scores of energy companies around the world that use our BT Radianz managed infrastructure to support their electronic buying and selling of oil and gas as commodities...read more
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Collaboration vs competition
Are competition and collaboration mutually exclusive? Nicholas Negroponte, Howard Boville, Jim Eckenrode, Bob Metcalfe and Maynard Webb debate the dichotomy between the two in this episode of the "Five innovative Trends I Learned from the Future" video series...read more |
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