Mizuho International accelerates trading workflow with BT

Frost & Sullivan declare BT European Unified Communications Service Provider of the Year

BT Radianz scoops three Waters awards

BT Radianz once again scooped the Best Network Provider as well as the Best Data Centre Provider awards in the 2012 Waters Rankings announced in July.

This was followed by an announcement at the beginning of November that BT has also been named Best Cloud Provider to the Buy-Side in Waters in the Buy-Side Technology awards 2012.

Earlier this year BT Radianz also carried off Best Data Networking and Infrastructure Provider at the 2012 Inside Market Data awards and won the Cloud Computing category of the Year at the FStech 2012 awards.

Watch Waters' Jake Thomases interview with Mike Masiello, head of sales BT at this year's Waters Rankings

Read our blog: Award-winning innovation keeping traders on cloud nine

BT a leader in Asia Pacific Next Generation Telecom Services market according to IDC MarketScape

Over the past two years we have been improving our capabilities and launching innovative services to help our customers gain competitive advantages in the Asia Pacific region. Now we have been acknowledged as a leader in the Asia Pacific Next Generation Telecom Services market by the latest IDC MarketScape vendor analysis which assesses vendors on their current capabilities and longer-term strategies...read more

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Simplifying global collaboration for the enterprise with BT One

According to the findings of a recent BT survey, executives think they are wasting up to 25 per cent of their time every day because of poor communication and collaboration.

Business leaders feel IT departments aren't up to date with new technology, and are frustrated with the restrictions placed on them when it comes to being allowed to use their own devices at work. They're even resorting to "going behind the back of IT" to use open platforms like Facebook and Twitter – perhaps putting their own enterprise security at risk.

BT One makes business communications work better for everyone with an innovative portfolio of voice, enterprise, cloud, and collaboration services that is designed to consolidate existing legacy systems and deliver a one-for-all communications framework...read more

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One identity to rule them all...

Banks, brokers and market regulators around the world have always faced the challenge of identifying individual counterparties and customers. But the economic crash of 2008 and the mini-crashes that have happened since have thrown the issue into stark relief.

Operating in the low-latency world of financial markets, where brokers and exchanges act as intermediaries between investors, the two original parties who wanted to buy and to sell something may not know who that trade was actually done with until days after the trade actually happened – so it's very difficult to see who is holding what and when.

That's why market regulators of the G20 countries have now recommended that a global system of unique Legal Entity Identifiers (LEIs) be introduced, and from 2013, global financial institutions will have a new, unique identity that can be used around the world, both between and within organisations...read more

Read more about LEIs from Chris Pickles

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Global LEI needs a local touch: LEIs were on the agenda at this year's SIBOS: Catch up on the report on page 9 of SIBOS Issues here

Clearing and Settlement Working Group update

The Clearing and Settlement Working Group (CAS-WG), of which BT is a lead sponsor, held a plenary meeting in July.

The chair of each of the four subject groups (Risk; Regulation; Standards and Market Infrastructure) gave an update on their group's progress, and there were two panel discussions.

The first looked at the merits of the European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR), which has been debated with the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) and is set to be ratified by the European Parliament for implementation in 2013.

The second panel looked at the ISO17442 standards for Legal Entity Identifiers which are agreed for rollout from March 2013...read the full meeting report here

There is a two-speed financial world being regulated under one regulatory agenda: Chris Skinner on the unintended consequences of Dodd-Frank and EMIR

BT continues push into Latin America

In September, more than 50 business and technology leaders met at the British Ambassador's residence in Bogota, Colombia, for the second Big Conversation Leadership Summit, at which a number of initiatives in Latin America were announced.

New developments include the opening of a new Centre of Excellence for data centre services and security management in Bogota, Colombia. Two new services – BT Cloud Compute and BT Private Compute - have also been added to BT's Compute portfolio in Brazil and Colombia, which will enable organisations to benefit from data centre resources like storage and computing capacity that adapt to their needs in the most flexible way possible. These services will be extended to Mexico later this year.

BT has also launched BT Assure Secure Web and BT Assure Managed Firewall services in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and Mexico, to help regional customers build more sustainable businesses with added security and resilience in their IT processes...read more

Hurricane Sandy and Groundhog Day

Hurricane Sandy's impact is terrifying not just because of its scale, but because it has shown that business continuity is still a huge issue in a major financial centre in a major developed economy, says head of industry initiatives at BT GB&FM Chris Pickles ...read more

Is fibre still the golden goose of financial trading networks?

Trading-technology providers are investing in long-distance telecommunications such as fibre-optic cable, satellite and microwave with the aim of providing near-instantaneous trading across time zones and continents. But is this level of investment really necessary for all players? Chris Pickles thinks not. Read his interview with Markets Media magazine...read more

Clouds without hackers

Unlike the public internet, access to the BT Radianz private managed cloud is controlled and security monitored across the network, so when the first virus tried to creep into it via a major global bank's, public internet service provider, the bank got disconnected for a few hours until it was able to kill that virus and get its house in order...read more

Cloud goes from strength to strength in financial markets

Gartner predicts that the term 'cloud' will increase in popularity and use in the coming years. Reassuringly, the financial services community cloud approach is held up as a shining example of doing exactly what it says it will – providing vital connections between the world's key financial markets' hosting centres to create a virtual global market infrastructure...read more

Trust, trustability and the human dimension of collaboration

Collaboration is not just a matter of technology. While unified communications, social business and collaboration technologies facilitate better ways of co-creating and working together, human behavior, motivations and trust make the difference, says J-P De Clerck...read more