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Euronext pursues innovation strategy with Tredzone

Euronext, the pan-European exchange in the Eurozone, has signed a partnership agreement with Tredzone, a technology solution provider specialised in developing software tools for handling complex data with high volumes and guaranteed latency.

27 July 2016

Company update/Hardware

Unisys wins five-year storage contract with Banco Popular

Unisys Corporation (UIS) today announced that it has received a five-year contract from Banco Popular, one of the largest financial institutions in Colombia, to provide high-end storage solution and associated services to support the bank's critical business operations.

16 March 2016

Company update/Hardware

Consorsbank connects data centres with Adva Optical Networking

ADVA Optical Networking announced today that Consorsbank is using the ADVA FSP 3000 for secure connectivity between its data centers.

20 October 2015

Company update/Hardware

KBC deploys IBM hardware and software to meet changing customer expectations

IBM (NYSE: IBM) and KBC Group (KBC.BR), a leading international financial group in Belgium, announced today that KBC Group is using the new IBM z13 mainframe and IBM's software framework to develop and deliver powerful new customer-centric services to improve the banking experience.

13 October 2015

Company update/Hardware

Delen Private Bank contracts with ICTroom for custom-built data centre

ICTroom, experts in the delivery of customised data centre solutions, today announced it has been selected by Delen Private Bank, one of the largest private banks in Belgium, to design and build a new Tier III corporate data centre in Antwerp.

02 September 2015

News/Hardware

ANZ builds Innovation Lab in A$450 million deal with IBM

ANZ has signed a five-year A$450 million deal with IBM to increase productivity and innovation across the Australian bank through the use of cloud-based services, mainframe technology and analytics software.

01 September 2015

Company update/Hardware

Metamako relocates to Sydney fintech hub

Metamako, one of KPMG’s top 50 tech-innovators and the leader in deterministic, ultra-low latency technology, has today announced that it is relocating to become a key participant in the fintech ecosystem in the Stone & Chalk fintech hub in Sydney.

25 August 2015

Company update/Hardware

HID Global extends identity assurance product for banks

HID Global®, a worldwide leader in secure identity solutions, today expanded its broad offering of its identity assurance portfolio with the addition of the ActivID® Flexi Token.

24 August 2015

News/Hardware

Banks warned on risks of using unsupported Windows Server 2003

NatWest and ANZ are among the banks that are still using Windows Server 2003, despite Microsoft ending support for the operating system last month, according to security outfit Netcraft.

18 August 2015

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Level39 gets Intel Inside

Intel has partnered with UK tech accelerator space Level39 to provide startups with access to its industry expertise, contacts, data sets and next-generation hardware.

02 July 2014

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Indian bank IT spending to hit new highs - Gartner

Indian banking and securities companies will spend 462 billion rupees (EUR5.5 billion) on IT products and services in 2014, an increase of nearly 9.8 percent over 2013 revenue of 421 billion rupees, according to Gartner

21 October 2013

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SocGen private bank completes two-year project to migrate core banking system to the cloud

Luxembourg private bank Société Générale Bank & Trust has completed a two-year project to migrate its core banking system, comprising ten million lines of code, to a cloud computing architecture.

23 May 2013

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RBS preps £80 million IT overhaul - Telegraph

After June's IT meltdown and last week's collapse of a deal to sell off branches to Santander, the Royal Bank of Scotland is preparing an £80 million overhaul of its mainframe computer systems, according to the Sunday Telegraph.

22 October 2012

News/Hardware

Financial firms fund study into use of supercomputers for market stability

An academic project exploring how supercomputing and data intensive science can be tapped to aid stability, regulation, and enforcement in US markets has received $100,000 in research donations from a collection of financial firms.

28 August 2012

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IBM server crash hits Canadian bank services

An outage at IBM's server farm in Montreal has knocked out online services and ATMs at two Canadian banks, according to a local press report.

25 January 2012

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Password protection shattered by cheap GPUs

Hackers are using cheap consumer hardware to crack even the most complex passwords in a matter of seconds, according to tests run by server hosting firm UKFast.

04 October 2011

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JPMorgan lifts the lid on GPU-led performance breakthrough

JPMorgan is taking advantage of graphic processors from Nvidia to deliver a 40% increase in the speed of its risk calculations, as part of a three-year plan to cut computation data costs by 75%.

11 August 2011

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BankWest makes $20 million investment in new Fujitsu data centre

BankWest is to become the anchor tenant in Fujitsu's new Perth data centre under a ten-year, A$20 million deal.

24 November 2010

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Capital markets firms spend $13.4bn on trading infrastructures in 2010 - Tabb

Capital markets firms around the world are set to spend $13.4 billion this year, across asset classes, on trading infrastructures, according to a report from Tabb Group.

07 September 2010

News/Hardware

IBM gets Citi thumbs up for new generation mainframe

IBM has unveiled the most powerful mainframe server ever, the zEnterprise, that it claims will fundamentally change the way firms like banks manage data centres, enabling centralised management of disparate application silos.

22 July 2010