AWS for Industries
Author: Alex Mirarchi
Alex Mirarchi is a Principal Capital Markets Industry Specialist at Amazon Web Services (AWS). Alex’s core focus is helping Global Exchanges and Financial Market Infrastructure (FMI) firms transform their businesses with AWS. He leads AWS’s business development for FMIs, trading and connectivity in the cloud and also supports asset managers, investment banks, broker dealers, and fintechs in developing their cloud strategies. Alex joined AWS from Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), where he was responsible for strategy and structuring programs and strategic partnerships with Independent Software Vendors (ISVs). Prior to Oracle, Alex worked in capital markets, selling Asian Equities to Hedge Funds in London with HSBC and in New York with Macquarie Group. Alex also held front office roles in Fixed Income and Foreign Exchange and started his career in HSBC Global Asset Management’s alternative investments division in London. Alex holds an MBA from Columbia Business School and is based in New York.
Cloud Adoption Update for Financial Market Infrastructure Providers 1H25
Introduction Financial Market Infrastructure Providers (FMIs) continue to accelerate the migration of critical workloads across the trade lifecycle to AWS. During the first half of 2025, Exchanges, Central Counterparty Clearing Houses (CCPs), and Central Security Depositories (CSDs) continue to use cloud services. These services include AI and GenAI capabilities, as engines of innovation and differentiation […]
Financial Market Infrastructure Providers Cloud Adoption Trends for 2H24
As we look forward to the start of a new year, we wanted to reflect on cloud adoption trends from Financial Market Infrastructure providers (FMIs) for the second half of 2024. Over the last six months, FMIs, such as exchanges, clearing houses (CCPs) and security depositories (CSDs), accelerated migrating critical workloads across all business lines […]
Financial Market Infrastructure Providers Cloud Adoption Trends for The First Half of 2024
This blog post has been adopted from a Newsletter Released in the summer of 2024 With warm temperatures in New York, we took a few moments to reflect on a busy first half of the year from a cloud adoption perspective for Financial Market Infrastructure providers (FMIs). Exchanges, clearing houses (CCPs) and security depositories (CSDs) […]
How Aquis created a cloud-native exchange to meet the highest regulatory requirements on AWS
Aquis Stock Exchange The Aquis Stock Exchange (AQSE), based in the United Kingdom, is a subsidiary of Aquis Exchange PLC, which operates the seventh-largest pan-European Equities exchange group by daily average volume. Focusing on growth companies, AQSE operates its own markets and sells technology solutions to other exchange operators. In 2023, AQSE became the world’s […]
How Yaala Labs Built a Cloud Native Exchange Platform on AWS
In this blog we discuss why Yaala Labs built their matching engine solution, P8, on AWS and explore the architectural decisions they made to achieve their performance and business objectives. We also share some of the benefits that Yaala Labs and their customers gained by running on AWS. Who is Yaala Labs Yaala Labs was […]