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BT for Financial Services: Powering the Trade Lifecycle

July 2015 - Issue 18

This month we lit up the BT Tower in celebration of Radianz’s 15th birthday.

Since its launch 15 years ago, Radianz has been a driving force of innovation. Today our community members are as keen as ever to find new ways to grow, address regulations and drive efficiencies.

Fifteen years ago, Radianz launched with a strapline of ‘One community. One connection. One focus’. This message is as true today as it was then.

The Radianz Cloud was launched in 2000 and has evolved with the market and the changing needs of BT’s clients. It established the world’s largest financial services community and then grew to encompass managed hosting in more than 20 data centres globally, where significant clusters of capital markets organisations are present.

It’s part of BT’s ‘Cloud of Cloud’ vision to give firms greater control over how they use cloud-based applications and services. Read more >

Keep up to date with the birthday celebrations at #Radianz15

See the BT Radianz 15 infographic

In the spotlight

BT Radianz to help Fintech startups

We’re accelerating innovation in global financial markets by bringing fintech start-ups, a growing source of innovation for the global financial markets industry, on to the BT Radianz Cloud.

The small size of fintech companies compared to the scale of their target customers creates challenges around service delivery and their ability to meet the stringent contractual or compliance expectations of large financial institutions.
Read more >

BT vision of a ‘Cloud of Clouds’ makes cloud services integration a global reality

We are investing to become the cloud services integrator of choice for customers with diversified IT environments.

Many financial organisations are grappling with the move to a cloud-based infrastructure. They’re concerned about securing both data and network; about managing hybrid clouds; retaining control; complying with regulation; assuring end-user performance; and having access to the right skills. One service provider can’t give you all the applications you want, so you need a trusted broker to fit it all together – and that’s where BT comes in.
Read more >
Read press release >
Download white paper >

Beating hackers at their own game

Searching the bank’s systems for a way in, the intruder discovers a window of opportunity and makes a move. A bonus payment suddenly leaps to €500,000. The breach could have cost a fortune, but it wasn’t your average hacking attempt.

The infiltrator was one of BT’s top ethical hackers, tasked with finding vulnerabilities before cyber criminals. The bank (an international financial services provider) has not suffered a single serious security breach since turning to us for protection.
Read more >

In 2014, BT became one of just four companies to achieve the Council for Registered Ethical Security Testers CREST STAR accreditation. Our Ethical Hacking service, provides a realistic simulation of cyber attack to test your network for vulnerabilities.

Global connections

Top Waters awards for BT Radianz

Awards have been coming thick and fast for BT Radianz. The BT Radianz Cloud, won the Best Cloud Provider to the Sell Side in the Waters Sell-Side Technology Awards 2015.

We also took home the top spot in the trading network category: Best Sell-Side Trading Network.

"One component that set Radianz apart is its ability to seamlessly guide clients throughout their trades via all the services offered. Whether it is during pre-trade (BT Netrix), trade (BT Radianz) or post-trade (BT SettleNet), BT’s trading network offers a complete solution to its customers," said the publication.

Sales Business Manager at BT Radianz Walt Terbrusch (right) accepted the awards on behalf of BT at the ceremony in New York on 21 April.

BT makes it easy for global investors to trade on Japan's financial markets

BT Radianz Cloud now offers international access to the equities and derivatives markets of the Japan Exchange Group (JPX), Asia’s biggest financial trading group and the third largest in the world. Members of the BT Radianz Cloud can now access a range of brokers and the market data needed to trade on JPX’s growing markets via their BT Radianz Cloud connection. Read more >

BT wins at 2015 FSTech Awards

Groundbreaking work by BT and Barclays saw the two companies come out on top in the Best Use of Technology in Customer Service category at the 2015 FStech Awards.

Barclays was one of the first businesses to trial a groundbreaking new service from BT called BT Contact personalised video service.

BT client partner for Barclays Steven Satchwell (pictured left) accepted the award on behalf of BT at a prestigious Gala Dinner and Awards Ceremony at the London Marriott Grosvenor Square on 26 March 2015. Read more >

Winterflood Securities opts for BT SettleNET

Supporting 450 customers on 41 trading venues across 17 countries, Winterflood Securities is Europe’s leading market maker, processing some 47,000 trades every day. When issues with Winterflood’s old messaging platform started to impact its operations two years ago, it decided to move to the BT SettleNET managed messaging platform. Read more >

China Development Bank gets leading edge voice communications

When China Development Bank expanded its trading operation following relocation to a new HQ in Beijing, it upgraded its trading floor with new BT Unified Trading Netrix turrets at more than 110 positions. Read more >

BT again "Cloud Leader" in Germany

Experton Group’s Cloud Vendor Benchmark 2015 report has ranked BT’s cloud solutions as “leader” in five categories for the fifth year in a row. BT was rated as “Cloud Leader Germany” in five categories that are especially focused on enterprise-grade cloud solutions. Read more >

Festivities were on the agenda at BT Tower on 16 June to celebrate Radianz’s 15 years of supporting the world’s largest secure financial services community.

The celebrations will continue throughout the year with events in New York, Hong Kong, Singapore and Tokyo.

Fifteen years ago the financial services landscape was a very different place.

Back in 2000, the concept of sending a tweet, or messaging a friend via facebook were all unheard of, and words like "platform", "cloud", "community" and "collaboration" would have sounded very tech city.

But then, as today, our vision was to have a simple service-orientated platform for the financial community. And fifteen years on, BT Radianz takes much of the credit for shifting attitudes towards cloud services and making them a critical element of capital market infrastructures.

We have some big plans afoot for the future too: read more in this issue about how we plan to give small fintech companies the chance to join our community and help Radianz community members to meet regulations, drive efficiencies and identify new opportunities to grow.

Forthcoming events

4-7 October 2015

World Financial Information Conference (WIFIC)

New Orleans USA

BT is a Gold sponsor of this event, at which it will also be exhibiting.

Register here

Video showcase

In this interview with ATMonitor at the EMEA Trading Conference Alexandra Foster, Global BT Head of Strategy & Business Development talked about the changes in regulation that are driving the current trading environment.

How BT Global Services has helped the The National Bank of Abu Dhabi implement its centralisation strategy, by providing a resilient, high-capacity network infrastructure connecting sites in 18 countries across five continents. Watch the video, read the press release or download the case study.

Brokerage firm Totan relies on BT Netrix and the supporting infrastructure provided by BT Unified Trading at its state-of-the-art Tokyo headquarters. Watch the video or read the case study

Keeping ahead with BT for Financial Markets

Mission critical solutions for the trading floor

Hi Touch Netrix keeps traders in control

Takeaways

Winterflood Securities case study - Download PDF >

BT SettleNet - Download PDF >

Bringing cloud services together - Download PDF >

Guiding the journey to the cloud at slideshare - Download PDF >

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 >

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.

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