BT and ANZ Bank break BT's long distance record for single voice trading platform

BT wins Inside Market Data Award

BT Global Financial Services won the Inside Market Data Best Data Networking and Infrastructure Provider at a glittering ceremony held at the New York, Marriott Marquis on 24 May...read more

BT a "leader" in latest cloud computing report

BT has been recognised in multiple categories as a leading provider of cloud computing services in Germany by the analysts of Experton Group in their latest Cloud Vendor Benchmark 2011 report. BT Virtual Data Centre was listed as a "leader" in three categories – Infrastructure-as-a-Service Private, Infrastructure-as-a-Service Public and Cloud Services for Large Corporations...read more

BT and Lime Brokerage announce pre-trade risk solution

BT and Lime Brokerage have launched a one-stop solution for broker-dealers to quickly and easily facilitate pre-trade risk controls. Available to members of the BT Radianz community, the service helps users comply with the US SEC Rule 15c3-5 and its 14 July implementation deadline. Broker-dealers who are not already connected to the BT Radianz cloud can easily place an order for service access...read more

LockPath joins BT Radianz community cloud

BT is expanding the scope of applications available to the BT Radianz Managed Infrastructure cloud-based community with LockPath's Keylight platform. The first of several Software-as-a-Service applications to be made available through the BT Radianz cloud, LockPath's Keylight platform provides US and internationally regulated businesses with a fully-automated governance, risk and compliance data reconciliation and reporting process...read more

Aphelion offers Quasar eFX via BT Radianz Cloud

Swedish-based provider of eFX trading systems Aphelion is to offer its foreign exchange autotrading system, Quasar eFX, as an available hosted solution via the BT Radianz Managed Infrastructure. BT will also host Aphelion services in the BT Radianz Proximity datacentre in London, giving European customers of Quasar eFX execution and access to market data...read more

BT rolls out Microsoft Lync across Asia Pacific and the USA

BT is rolling out its converged communications platform, BT Onevoice with Microsoft Lync (Office Communications Server 2010) across Asia Pacific and the USA. Business customers across the regions will benefit from an innovative suite of collaboration tools that combine BT's global voice and video services with Microsoft Lync to deliver advanced capabilities, significant cost savings and operational efficiencies.

Mark Akass on future trading

In an interview with Fundamentals magazine, BT Global Banking and Financial Markets CTO Mark Akass talks about the changing nature of trading, the challenges of co-location and proximity hosting and how cloud-based services is set to be one of biggest changes in electronic trading. "Compliance and risk management are places where people are spending money, and they're looking to providers like us to help implement these things," he says...read more

Please vote for BT!

Readers of Banking Technology are being asked to vote for the best systems across ten product areas in the Readers' Choice Awards. Solutions in each category can be from vendors based anywhere, provided that they are available in Europe. We are asking you to vote for BT in category 3 – best trading system. Voting closes on 31 August.

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BT in Latin America

BT is currently present in 22 Latin American countries, delivering mission-critical networked IT solutions for global multinational companies, local and regional corporations, and public sector organisations. Manuel Arias Perez, head of Global Telecom Markets introduces Iberia, Latin America & Caribbean gives and overview of BT's services in the region...read more

BT is a strong global competitor in Latin America says Current Analysis

Leading research company Current Analysis has positioned BT Global Services "among the stronger global competitors in Latin America". Its report BT Global Services Plans to Raise Profile of Regional Latin America Business, Grow Market Share states that "thanks to its past acquisitions, the company [BT] already has the regional resources in place to increase its profile and win clients."...read more

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

BT provides network for biggest public bank in Latin America

BT has provided the network to connect Caixa Econômica Federal's data processing centres with its banking correspondents and lottery outlets in Brazil. With almost 38m customers in Brazil, the 'CAIXA' is the biggest public bank in Latin America, and offers accessible banking services for the general population as well as other public services such as urban infrastructure investment and the administration of benefit payments...read more

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BT's global inbound services deliver more efficient contact centres in Latin America

BT has launched its BT Global Inbound Services (GIS) managed voice solution In Latin America and now has three new points of presence in Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico. Access to the BT GIS platform will help address the issue of congestion and call quality that have plagued contact centres in the region; web based intelligent routing and real time traffic reporting opens up new functionality that has been missing from the Latin American market...read more

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CLSA brings the value of BT's Asia Pacific investments to life

CLSA Asia-Pacific Markets is the leading independent brokerage and investment group in Asia. Thiyagarajah Rajah, the company's CIO, describes how BT's commitment to service and investment throughout Asia Pacific will help CLSA take advantage of new business opportunities as they arise...read more.

The Future Delivered roadshow moves to Madrid

BT's The Future Delivered roadshow checked into the Hotel Santo Mauro in central Madrid on 12 May. The BT team shared its vision for trading communications with customers from across the trading community, who were then invited to enjoy demonstrations of BT Collaboration service, BT Communication Service and Kulu Valley Visual Messaging.

Beyond control

Do you trust people? Who? And why? What makes you confident you can depend on them? Searching questions, perhaps, but ones everyone involved in IT security is going to have to answer pretty soon...read more

And they said voice was dead...

Microsoft has purchased Skype. All in – for a whopping $8.5 billion.This was the largest deal ever done by Microsoft and that made me sit up and take notice...read more

iCloud – something we all know and love?

The news is out – the closest thing that the technology industry has to a religion is in full swing.I'm talking about Apple, and their slew of announcements at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco around iCloud...read more

The dark side of trading?

The trading world has changed radically over the past 10 years; technological advancements allow for lightening quick trades and bring the trader ever closer to the point of exchange – but is there a dark side to this evolutionary development...read more

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