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As the new MD of BT Unified Trading, I am delighted to welcome you to our new-look newsletter. I have chosen to call it Faster. Closer. Smarter because I believe that this is what the award-winning combination of BT Unified Trading delivered over the BT Radianz Cloud will help you achieve.
The BT Radianz Cloud, the world's largest secure networked financial community of over 15,000 member sites, brings you faster exchange of market information, trading, clearing and settlement of secure transactions. Serving more than 170 countries, BT brings you closer to your customers anywhere in the world with a powerful range of solutions that offer you smarter ways of reducing complexity and increasing liquidity across the STP chain.
We continue to innovate. At TradeTech Europe we announced plans for a new cloud-based biometric identity management solution based on Hitachi's Finger Vein Authentication technology, which will add federated identity management to the rich collaboration and compliance capabilities of our Unified Trading portfolio. And with BT Radianz Venue we are creating a low latency lattice network that interconnects key venues and market data centres around the world with new hosting centre nodes that really interconnect those venues and link up the market.
This issue is packed with news about how we can help you work faster, closer and smarter. We hope you enjoy it.
Robin Farnan, MD Unified Trading and COO Global Banking and Financial
Markets, BT
Read more about our BT Unified Trading portfolio, or contact julie.5.scott@bt.com to arrange an appointment.
BT Unified Trading brochure
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Introducing BT Unified Trading voice messaging |
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With BT Unified Trading voice messaging, an exciting new service we have just added to our collaboration server, you can get up-to-the-minute information to your clients first time, every time. It is an application that allows you to send sound bites of new market intelligence recorded by your analysts and researchers directly to your clients' desktop. Since the advice comes from them, it is already preauthorised and compliance checked, and you can use it as a teaser to generate follow-up conversations with clients in a warm, natural way that's easier to convert into actual deals.
"This market is all about adding value, and investors expect their portfolio managers or their investor relationship managers to be able to generate ideas," explains Apu Mitra, BT Unified Trading head of application sales. "Investors are pushing sell side firms to get closer to them with their research and the value of the services they provide. So this is an excellent way of being able to communicate those value-added services."
BT Unified Trading voice messaging can be supplied as a hosted solution that allows you to flex up and down in response to changing business conditions.
Watch video: GB&FM head of portfolio strategy Tim Furmidge introduces the service and Apu Mitra, BT Unified Trading head of application sales, fills in the detail
See how to select and create a playlist here
See how to distribute messages here
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Shrinking the global finance village |
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Lightning-fast unified communications featuring multimedia are now a byword in trading rooms across the world. But is your back office keeping pace? If you have global or dispersed enterprise, can your people communicate instantly across continents or regions linking multiple technologies and devices? With the pressure on to find new ways of growing the business, improving efficiencies and complying with evolving regulatory and compliance mandates, BT Unified Communications offers audio options that can bring your people in any location together and allow them to share documents in real time, as well as webcasting and streaming solutions that can help you create face-to-face collaboration without the need to travel.
Find out more about our on-premise or cloud based solutions
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Creating a fabric for the future |
 A ten-foot spinning globe topped BT's stand at this year's TradeTech Europe where BT Unified Trading and BT solutions for the financial services market were showcased.
Speaking at the event in April where BT was a lead sponsor, Tom Regent, president Global Banking & Financial Markets and Sales & Marketing BT, delivered a keynote speech, touching on the key themes affecting the industry today such as big data, visualisation, cloud technology, global connectivity, security, regulation and risk.
With the exponential growth in messaging volumes and the need to execute lightning fast trades, financial services firms are increasingly turning to cloud technology and global connectivity, which can eliminate the effect of distance, unify pools of liquidity and help them work smarter, said Tom. Techniques like visualisation could also help spot trends and market moves and even anticipate cyber-attacks before they strike, he went on.
"We are in a new era driven by the cloud, which is not one of dots and lines connecting the market players, but instead a closely interwoven fabric in which the market itself operates," he concluded.
Read Tom's speech Creating a fabric for the future
Download the BT/A-Team white paper A flexible approach to market infrastructure
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BT announces new biometric identity solution for financial services at TradeTech
The new cloud-based secure federated ID management system for financial services firms will incorporate Hitachi's Finger Vein Authentication Engine and technology to offer biometric security capabilities... The combined strengths of both products will offer the market a trusted solution for the secure interchange of identities between financial firms, identity providers and service providers, at the heart of financial services industry...read more |
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Debating regulation at TradeTech 2012
Alexandra Foster global head of sales, BT Radianz & Payments BT Global Services (pictured left) chaired a series of lively and controversial debates and presentations at this year's TradeTech attended by regulators, exchanges and CCPs among others.
Themes included: market structure and regulation - how they interact and how you can deal with them and exploit them; MiFID II - its real impact on businesses; and the European broker landscape - the future role of smaller brokers, and the effect of current regulation on brokers' value proposition.
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BT Radianz Cloud now offers global access to 40 more data centres
BT has announced a new addition to its BT Radianz Cloud portfolio and enhancements to its BT Radianz Proximity services that will extend the footprint of its hosting capabilities at non-BT data centres ten-fold and provide lowest optimal latency between trading venues.
Known collectively as BT Radianz Venue, the suite of new and enhanced services will help customers address the challenges of liquidity, fragmentation and new trading opportunities while enhancing trade execution performance. BT Radianz Venue consists of three services: BT Radianz Venue Interconnect, BT Radianz Venue Access and BT Radianz Venue Presence.
Under an agreement with Equinix, BT will offer its BT Radianz Venue capabilities from Equinix's world-class data centres, adding an additional 10 financial ecosystems to the BT Radianz global footprint across North America, EMEA and Asia Pacific...read more
Download the BT Radianz Venue Interconnect data sheet
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BT Assure addresses personal devices, cloud solutions, and 'big data' security issues
Cybersecurity threats, accidental or intentional employee data loss and increasing use of personal devices on employers' networks are the three biggest security risks perceived by IT decision-makers, a BT survey has revealed. In particular, BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) is making progress within the corporate environment, with 60 per cent of employees using personal devices for work, and especially high usage in countries such as China and India (92 per cent and 80 per cent).
The research results also demonstrate that the traditional secure outer perimeter of enterprise networks no longer exists and that specific tools are required to measure, understand and address this new security reality. BT has announced innovations to its BT Assure security portfolio designed to help organisations address security issues such as these...read more
Visit the Rethink the risk website
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Clearing and Settlement AS-WG Working Group meets again
BT's Chris Pickles and Alexandra Foster (pictured left) with Financial Services Club chairman Chris Skinner (right) at the inaugural meeting.
The third plenary meeting of the Clearing & Settlement Working Group (CAS-WG), of which BT is a founder sponsor, took place on 18 July at the BT Auditorium in Newgate Street, London. It was an important event for the clearing and settlement community, as the EU issued a consultation paper which will change the trading of derivatives at the end of June. The Working Group intends to input views around these rule changes between now and the end of August.
Four specialist Subject Groups formed at the CAS-WG inaugural meeting have already held initial meetings that aim to absorb, debate and discuss the implications of change from the European Market Infrastructures Regulation (EMIR) and other changes introduced by the FSA, European Commission, Bank of International Settlements (BIS) Basel Committee and more. Contact Chris Skinner for more information or if you wish to join.
Download the CAS-WG plenary session report
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BT wins FST 2012 Cloud computing innovation of the year award
After carrying off the top new accolade for Cloud Computing Innovation of the Year at the FST Awards last year - BT has now been awarded the title for the second year running. BT Radianz CTO, Michael Cooper (pictured, middle) accepted the award at a prestigious gala dinner on 28 March 2012 at the Lancaster London Hotel, Bayswater, which was attended by over four hundred industry professionals...read more |
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BTGS takes lead in three of Gartner's most influential Magic Quadrants - and the top spot in two
Once again the world's leading information technology research and advisory company Gartner has named BT Global Services (BTGS) as a global leader in three Magic Quadrant reports on network service providers, covering global, pan-European and Asia-Pacific services.
BTGS achieved a best-ever performance in both the global and Pan-European reports, taking the overall leadership position and stealing a march on key competitors including Verizon, AT&T and Orange Business Services...read more |
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BT wins 2012 Frost & Sullivan Asia Pacific accolade
BT was voted the Managed Service Provider of the Year at the 9th Annual Frost & Sullivan Asia Pacific ICT Awards in Singapore in June...read more |
Cloud cover bodes well for African telecoms
Head of industry initiatives, BT Global Banking and Financial Markets Chris Pickles talked to IT News Africa about BT's investment in a multi-million Rand undersea "pipeline" project to connect Africa with Europe, and the relevance of cloud computing to the burgeoning South African economy...read more |
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Making Hong Kong market more attractive to global investors |
The BT Radianz portfolio is to be offered from Hong Kong Exchange's new data centre to deliver fully managed hosting and low-latency interconnectivity services between and within global trading venues to the exchange's customers....read more |
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ING Bank to provide brokerage and custodian services in Russia via BT Radianz Cloud
The BT Radianz community of 15,400 member locations are to be offered a fast, nimble and secure connection to ING Bank, giving them access to ING Bank's brokerage, cash management, custodian and other investor services in Russia...read more
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Irish Stock Exchange joins BT Radianz Cloud community
BT and the Irish Stock Exchange (ISE) have announced that market data from the ISE is now accessible to the 15,400 global member sites in the BT Radianz Cloud...read more
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BT Connect: a new dimension of intelligent networks for business
BT Connect establishes intelligence as a new dimension for the definition of network performance alongside speed, availability, scope, security and resilience...read more |
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Totan IT outsources voice trading network to BT
Tokyo-based Totan Information Technology (Totan IT) is now outsourcing its private network community for voice trading services to BT. Financial market firms using Totan's brokerage services will continue to receive all current services but will also have access to the full range of voice trading technologies offered by BT...read more |
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BT extends managed low latency services to Sao Paulo
BT has added São Paulo to the list of cities in which it will be offering its BT Radianz Venue suite of managed network services. This will improve access to liquidity in the Latin America region, where over 450 institutions are already part of the BT Radianz Cloud...read more |
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Singapore Exchange links Chicago and London to Asia using BT
Singapore Exchange (SGX) and BT have announced that SGX will use BT Radianz services to provide access and connectivity for its new hubs in Chicago and London. SGX is the first Asian exchange with hubs in the US and Europe, a move intended to bring its markets closer to international investors...read more |
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BT Connect: a new dimension of intelligent networks for business
BT Connect establishes intelligence as a new dimension for the definition of network performance alongside speed, availability, scope, security and resilience...read more |
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“Big Data” survey: cloud computing and collaboration drive up data volume in German enterprises
The volume of data being processed in German companies is skyrocketing. On average, IT decision-makers anticipate an increase of more than 40 per cent over the next two years, a recent study commissioned by BT Germany has revealed...read more |
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BT doubles its data centre capacity in Germany with new 'green' facility
BT's new energy-efficient data centre in Frankfurt will complement its two existing data centres in Germany and more than double its IT services capacity for corporate clients there...read more |
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Money makes the world go cloud
As financial services firms look to solve their cost, power and space challenges while extending their infrastructure, it will be critical for these firms to examine more software and cloud-based voice solutions...read more |
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Keeping the pipes open
Using a cloud approach is about getting the maximum value out of a fat pipe to achieve increased efficiencies and greater throughput with significantly reduced costs, says Chris Pickles...read more
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DDOS: the attack that just keeps on giving
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attackers are getting smarter and more inventive and in the financial sector attacks are being used to manipulate markets, with hackers creating a flood of buy and sell orders on trading systems to slow down trading...read more |
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One identity to rule them all
Projects dealing with issues of identity often result in considerable duplication of effort and cost across banks and investment firms, but this may now be reaching the point where it can no longer be sustained by financial institutions says Chris Pickles...read more |
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The universal language of intelligent networks
What often gets forgotten is the close link between cloud computing and networks; cloud computing means IT can be hosted actively in the network - not just stored or backed up there - but actively controlled and directed...read more |
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10-12 September 2012
TradeTech West
The Westin St Francis,
San Francisco USA
BT is a lead sponsor at this year's west coast event for institutional traders and technologists.
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29 October-1 November 2012
SIBOS
INTEX Osaka, Japan
Visit the BT stand number 3C11 at this year's exhibition, or contact Chris Pickles for further information.
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BT for Financial Services
Speed, accuracy and security of financial data and communications are crucial:
BT Unified Trading
Sets the benchmark for the next decade by bringing to market a powerful, cost-effective, software-based cloud-compatible trader voice, multi-media and collaboration solution.
BT Radianz
BT Radianz is the world's largest financial services cloud provider with over 15,000 member sites, supporting the world's largest secure networked financial community, and setting the standard for speed and reliability. |
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The opinions expressed in this newsletter are those of the authors alone.
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