AWS for Industries
Tag: Capital Markets
One Trading and AWS: Cloud-native colocation for crypto trading
Latency is one of the sources of competitive edge and a continuous focus for exchanges and Market Makers in capital markets. Improving latency positively impacts the execution of trading strategies, enhancing liquidity and increasing profitability for market venues and participants. A significant number of crypto exchanges have been built on Amazon Web Services (AWS)—continuing to […]
Low latency cloud-native exchanges
Large capital market infrastructure providers (specifically exchanges) around the world use the cloud to accelerate their innovation and modernization journey. Trading workloads present unique challenges, including low latency responses, low jitter network performance, and ensuring fairness. With different services and features, Amazon Web Services (AWS) enable exchanges to develop use cases built with cloud-native services […]
Aeron performance enables capital markets to move to the cloud on AWS
With recent performance and operational improvements in the cloud, capital markets venues are now actively engaged in the race to the cloud. In many cases, this requires capital markets infrastructure to be re-engineered for resilience, performance and consistency. Aeron’s high performance message transport and cluster technology is uniquely suited to help move front-office trading and […]
Introducing Amazon FinSpace with Managed kdb Insights, a fully managed analytics engine, commonly used by capital markets customers for analysis of real-time and historical time series data
Today, AWS is announcing Amazon FinSpace with Managed kdb Insights, a new capability that makes it simple to configure, run, and manage kdb Insights on AWS. KX Systems’ kdb Insights, a high-performance analytics engine, is optimized for analyzing real-time and multi-petabyte historical time series data. Kdb Insights is widely used in capital markets to power […]
Rethinking the low latency trade value proposition using AWS Local Zones
At the 2021 re:Invent, it was announced that NASDAQ was partnering with AWS to transform Capital Markets and migrate its North American markets to the cloud. This means that it’s time to rethink the “art of the possible” for cloud trading. With the recent launch of AWS Local Zones in New York, Chicago, Kansas City, […]
A Reference Architecture for a Front Office Risk Store
Robert Butcher, Solution Architect, Global Financial Services, AWS Front Office risk data is the lifeblood of Investment Banks. It informs every trading decision that they take, both commercial and prudential, and it’s critical for planning and regulatory reporting purposes. In this post, we present a reference architecture for a Front Office Risk Store (risk store) […]
Make the most of AWS re:Invent 2021 – Financial Services Industry Guide
Celebrating its 10th year, AWS re:Invent 2021 is gearing up to deliver a week of inspiring content, educational workshops and bootcamps, and plenty of peer-to-peer networking opportunities. This year’s conference will take place in Las Vegas from November 29th through December 3rd, and will have an engaging virtual component for those who cannot join us […]
Accessing Japan Exchange Group (JPX) arrownet through AWS
We often hear the term “undifferentiated heavy lifting.” This refers to resource-intensive work that needs to be done, but doesn’t differentiate you from your competitors. Building servers and applying security patches to your OS are examples. Such tasks take away time, talent, and capital from higher-value initiatives that set your products and services apart. At […]
Increasing flexibility: Capital Markets firms in the cloud adapt more quickly
In his post titled “Dealing with disruption: How financial institutions are using cloud technology to respond to COVID-19 and reshape the industry,” Scott Mullins, Head of Worldwide Financial Services Business & Market Development for AWS, discussed how COVID-19 has impacted the normal course of business in the Financial Services industry. For Capital Markets firms, scaling […]