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It's been a busy year for us here at BT. We have migrated no fewer than 11,000 turrets in the space of just 18 months. We beat our own record this summer by completing the installation of a single BT ITS voice trading platform across a distance of 850km, connecting 240 traders at ANZ Bank's two main trading rooms in Melbourne and Sydney. And we hit a significant milestone: one in three traders worldwide now use a BT turret – that's more than 70,000 traders in over 800 trading firms in over 60 countries.
The launch of BT Unified Trading in Frankfurt last month saw our vision for a globally connected marketplace built on a suite of cloud compatible services delivered through an "intelligent" network come to fruition. BT Unified Trading is about much more than a technical architecture – it's about a level of service delivery and assurance, coupled with unparalleled expertise in onsite engineering and network diagnostics that have been honed over 30 years of delivering mission-critical voice, data and hosting to traders across the globe.
Nothing stands still of course, least of all the markets – and with your help we'll continue fine-tuning the solutions you need to retain and grow your clients in an ever tougher regulatory climate. You have worked with us every step of the way and we count on your continued input: so please keep on talking to us by emailing Julie.5.scott@bt.com or visiting our new website.
Howard Boville, Global Head of Trading Communications, Global Banking and Financial Markets, BT
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BT Unified Trading voice service now available in 14 financial centres |
BT unveiled its BT Unified Trading voice service, previously known as BT MarketPulse, at an event in Frankfurt on 27 September. BT Unified Trading voice service delivers VOIP to the trading room using the BT Radianz cloud, the world's largest dedicated financial services community of over 15,400 member sites in 64 countries.
Banks, brokers, buy-side and service providers can now self-provision the services they need when they need them, securely and compliantly thanks to BT's ground-breaking offering that enables market participants to interact, collaborate and trade across their enterprise and with their clients and counterparties over multiple channels, including voice, IM email, video and SMS.
In addition to New York and London, BT Unified Trading voice service is available in a total of 14 global financial centres including Chicago, Boston, Charlotte, St Louis, San Francisco, Tokyo, Paris, Frankfurt, Zurich, Hong Kong, Singapore and Sydney
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Visit the BT Unified Trading website or download the brochure
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BT and Teleware join forces to provide mobile device recording service |
BT and TeleWare have announced a network-based recording service for mobile devices, designed to help UK financial organisations meet new FSA call recording regulations coming into effect on 14 November...read more |
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BT showcases the future of trading communications for the Canadian market
BT announced its next-generation voice trading platform with the launch of its collaboration suite for the Canadian market on 12 July at an event at the TMX Broadcast Centre in Toronto...read more |
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BT improves network service capabilities in South Africa
BT has opened an international network traffic routing facility at Melkbosstrand in the Western Cape, further strengthening its position as a leading provider of networked IT services...read more
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Russian broker Uralsib joins BT Radianz community
Russian securities broker, URALSIB Capital-Financial Services, part of URALSIB Financial Corporation is to be the first broker to provide access to Russia's securities market via the BT Radianz Managed Infrastructure...read more |
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BT Al Saudia achieves Gold Certification from Cisco in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
BT Al Saudia has achieved Gold Certification from Cisco allowing it to further enhance its offering of outsourced networked IT services and solutions in one of the most dynamic ICT markets in the Middle East region...read more
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BT hosts FIX EMEA quarterly meeting and showcases Telepresence
The London FIX Protocol event was hosted at the BT Tower on 23 June. Delegates were invited to networking drinks following the meeting and the event was broadcast live via Telepresence / video conference to BT offices in Paris and Johannesburg...read more
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North and South America |
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BT to accelerate Latin-American growth
BT has announced a series of investments aimed at doubling its business in key Latin American countries over the next three years. It will recruit 250 new staff, increase its professional services capabilities, open new centres of excellence and implement a wide range of network and customer service improvements, as well as increasing the number of its MPLS points of presence by around 20% and launching ethernet services in 21 new cities...read more |
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BT hails landmark deal in Brazil
BT has reached a milestone in the development of its business in Latin America by signing a multi-million pound deal with a national state-owned post office – Brazil's Empresa Brasileira de Correios e Telégrafos (ECT)...read more |
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BT showcases BT Unified Trading for the Australian market
BT announced its next-generation voice trading platform with the launch of BT Unified Trading for the Australian market on 13 October in Sydney. |
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Eliza Kwok appointed managing director of BT China
BT has announced the appointment of Eliza Kwok as MD of BT China. Eliza will lead the profitable growth of BT's business in China by expanding its portfolio of services for existing multinational customers and winning new business in key sectors of the Chinese market...read more |
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BT opens new technology services facility in India
BT has opened a New Delhi Technology showcase as part of its ongoing investment plan in Asia Pacific.The facility brings together the latest video conferencing equipment and networked IT applications under one roof and enables customers to interact with innovative technologies and services such as wide area network optimisation, next generation contact centres, unified communications and IP telephony. The move comes hot on the heels of the opening of BT showcases in Hong Kong and Beijing last year and Sydney and Singapore this year...read more |
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BT rolls out Microsoft Lync across Asia Pacific
BT's converged communications platform, BT Onevoice, with Microsoft Lync (Office Communications Server 2010) is now available in Asia-Pacific. By combining BT's global voice and video services with Microsoft Lync, business customers based in Asia-Pacific will benefit from an innovative suite of collaboration tools which delivers advanced capabilities, significant cost savings and operational efficiencies...read more |
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Sell-Side Technology on BT's exploring human latency study
Latency reduction is no longer a matter of optimising network performance and the code base of applications, it is about understanding how people perceive and process data. In this interview Howard Boville discusses an academic study it has commissioned on the best way to present data for human consumption...read more |
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Infosecurity Magazine interviews BT's Bruce Schneier
CTO of BT Managed Security Solutions Bruce Schneier has made a reputation for himself by exploring the unconventional sides of security. Editor Drew Amorosi sat down with this industry luminary to gain a greater understanding of the man ...read more |
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New head of transformation for BT Radianz
BT has appointed former MD of strategy and transformation for BT Debra Bailey director of transformation for BT Radianz...read more |
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Enterprise software: oh where are you going?
I think it interesting that everything these days has the little add-on of 'aaS' on the end, I can get software, rent cars, and get a turret (close to my heart) as a service on a pay as you go or pay as you use model...read more |
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New rules – big changes?
The changes made last year really did do a lot to alter the ways of the financial market – I for one was a little bit worried about what might be the result for the Trading Room in particular, but also what it might mean for wider banking in the US...read more
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Look East young man
The Securities and Exchange Board of India has allowed mobile trading and smart order routing between stock exchanges directly from a mobile or more likely a smart phone...read more |
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All go – exchange!
When did the world of exchanges go from being a sleepy sort of old boys club to being a deal a minute global business where people are doing deals and nobbling the competition in order to make billions?...read more
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BT Radianz 'stock' rises
Last June BT Radianz celebrated its 10th anniversary. BT is fast building its 'stock' in the sector and confidently looking forward to the next 10 years and beyond...read more
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