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BT for Financial Services: Powering the Trade Lifecycle

January 2015 - Issue 17

BT Radianz pulls off hat trick

BT Radianz has once again been voted Best Cloud Provider to the Buy Side in the Buy-Side Technology Awards 2014.

The award reinforces its pre-eminent position in the cloud space by complementing its wins in both the 2014 Waters Rankings and the 2014 Sell-Side Technology Awards.

“It is a testament to the strength of Radianz that BT has won all but one of the cloud provider categories in the various awards programs run by the magazine,” says Waters’ James Rundle, noting that very few technology providers can lay claim to the accolade of a hat trick. “This continued recognition is a mark of Radianz’s continued dominance in its technology niche, despite fierce competition from other service providers,” he went on. “Radianz’s reach cannot be matched, with direct access offered in over 60 countries, and an extended presence in over 170 territories.” Read more >

In the spotlight

Putting high touch in low touch: next generation trading

The huge rise in automated trading is driving down spreads making it much harder to find investment returns – and the hunt is on for liquidity and collateral. Robin Farnan explains why he believes that high-touch intervention is needed to complement low-touch automation Read more >

Keeping the market connected

Over the last decade firms’ communications requirements have evolved and market data volumes have increased substantially. There is a clear need for adaptive communications technology. Michael Cooper and Alex Foster discuss how changing trends in the financial markets continue to drive innovation among technology providers. Read more >

Global connections

The secrets of analytical success in the eye of the storm

Max Nam-Storm of CLSA describes the challenges he faced when he became CIO at Asia’s leading independent brokerage and investment group. Read more >

Read the CLSA case study >

Room to grow

When it comes to expanding into new markets, global custodians play a central role in safekeeping and transferring investment managers’ international assets. But sometimes their technological infrastructure isn't up to the job, says Robin Farnan. Read more >

Managing the risk: security in the financial services industry

BT VP of Global Banking and Financial Markets Harry Singh spoke about technology risk in the financial services industry at an event run by Bank Tech Asia in Malaysia. Read more >

The new technology risk management guidelines in Singapore: a perspective

Our new ‘Perspectives’ series for the Financial Services Industry in Singapore aims to create a dialogue on the impact of these new guidelines and how to manage them. Read more >

BT was a joint sponsor of the Asia Pacific Financial Information Conference (APFIC) on 3-5 November in Hong Kong and of TradeTech Asia on 19-20 November in Singapore

It’s official: the BT Radianz Cloud occupies a ‘pre-eminent position’ in the cloud space, fighting off tough competition.

Our latest nomination by Waters as 2014 Best Cloud Provider to the Buy Side comes in the wake of two earlier accolades as Best Cloud Infrastructure Provider in the Waters Rankings and Best Cloud Infrastructure Provider to the Sell Side completing a hat trick for 2014.

Financial services firms have taken to the cloud faster than most. Early adopters are already experiencing wins in terms of the agility and the ability it confers to adapt to seismic structural, regulatory and legislative shifts in the markets.

As 2015 dawns the buy side in particular will be looking to leverage these benefits as it faces the huge challenges ahead.

As we move into a more collaborative and compliant era, here at BT we will be adding to the depth and breadth of our global footprint and extending our portfolio to help facilitate your reach and search for liquidity.

Robin Farnan
MD Financial Technology Services,
BT

Rob Farnan

Forthcoming events

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EMEA Trading Conference 2015

Old Billingsgate, London

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Keeping ahead with BT for Financial Markets

In the current environment, much of the stability of the world’s financial markets depends on innovative, fully-managed products and services coupled with in-depth industry knowledge and global reach.

Mission critical solutions for the trading floor

Hi Touch Netrix keeps traders in control

Takeaways

BT Radianz Services: Managed connectivity and hosting for financial services - Download PDF >

BT Radianz Messaging: Fully managed, secure, end-to-end financial messaging - Download PDF >

High Touch in Low Touch: Next Generation Trading - Download PDF >

CLSA Asia Pacific Markets case study - Download PDF >

Our services

BT Financial Technology Services include our industry award-winning BT Unified Trading and BT Radianz Services that support the largest secure networked financial community in the world.

BT Unified Trading enables communication, collaboration and compliance.

BT Radianz Cloud is the world's largest secure networked financial community.

BT Radianz Community

Download our Provider/Broker Directory, a pdf of some of the 400+ providers that use the BT Radianz Cloud to distribute services to their customers.

Let’s Talk

Trading: the right decisions at the right time

As the industry automates, both the buy side and sell side need to make more of their technology to optimise liquidity, relationships and resources. Read more >

BT’s quantum leap in encryption technology

BT’s breakthrough Quantum Key Distribution technology could provide an extra degree of sophisticated data protection for banks and credit card companies. Read more >

Three ways trading technology is changing

Evolving technology is seeing the emergence of the multichannel broker, says Robin Farnan. Read more >

 

Is this the end of Big Data?

Commonwealth Bank of Australia is using big data to good effect says Matthew Key, Head of Customer Engagement, GB&FM. Read more >

 

BT Security gains cyber-attack accreditation

BT Security has recently received accreditation from CREST for the Cyber Essentials (PLUS) scheme.
Read more >

 

BT innovates to spark business creativity

Six months into its global “Art of Connecting” campaign, BT brings its newest offers and propositions to a larger number of countries, further extending the reach and depth of its services. Read more >

 
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