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BT inks Standard Chartered network services deal

Standard Chartered Bank has signed a contract with UK telco BT for the supply of network services covering its operations in 16 countries.

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OMX and Verizon in outsourcing talks

Nordic and Baltic market operator OMX says it plans to outsource its external network operations and management of its data centres and has started negotiations with US telco Verizon.

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Telecom Italia wins EUR45m deal with Monte dei Paschi di Siena

Italian banking group Monte dei Paschi di Siena (BMPS) has signed a three year contract, worth EUR45 million, with Telecom Italia for the design and implementation of an integrated voice and data telecommunications network.

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OMX launches low latency proximity service

The OMX Nordic Exchange is introducing a 'proximity service' that facilitates algorithmic trading by allowing its customers to house order management applications within its trading and market data infrastructure.

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BT Radianz and Colt to provide connectivity to Boat trade reporting platform

BT Radianz and Colt have been selected to provide connectivity and infrastructure hosting services for Project Boat, the European trade reporting platform that is being established by nine City investment banks.

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Lloyds TSB Corporate Markets switches to converged network

UK-based Lloyds TSB Corporate Markets has completed a £3.5 million Cisco converged communications project at its flagship premises at 10 Gresham Street in the City.

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Financial services firms snub Microsoft's Vista

The majority of financial services firms in the UK have no plans to migrate to Microsoft's new Vista platform, according to research conducted by Vanson Bourne and released by IT consultancy Camwood.

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Microsoft and HCL launch Excel Services tools for banks

Microsoft has teamed with India's HCL Technologies to release a range of tools that use Excel Services to manage business-critical spreadsheets by holding them on servers to improve control and data consistency.

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Thomson Financial selects BT Radianz network services for low latency data feed

Thomson Financial has recruited BT Radianz to provide network and connectivity services for its low latency data feed.

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CohesiveFT and LShift launch RabbitMQ open source messaging

CohesiveFT, a US provider of virtual appliances for financial industry data standards, has teamed with London consultancy LShift to develop RabbitMQ, an open source messaging application based on the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP), championed by JPMorgan Chase.

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BT Radianz to expand NY data centre; enhance proximity service

BT Radianz is to make a multi-million dollar investment in expanding its New York Area data centre in response to rising demand for low latency direct market access to execution venues.

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Garanti Bank selects Cisco to provide data centre network infrastructure

Turkey's Garanti Bank has contracted with Cisco for the implementation of a backbone network for its data centre operations, comprising storage area networking, data centre switching and integrated security.

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Nordea virtualises derivatives risk pricing with DataSynapse

Scandinavian bank Nordea has implemented DataSynapse's GridServer software in an effort to speed up turn-around times for risk pricing at its derivatives trading operations.

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NAB hit by denial of service attack

National Australia Bank (NAB) says problems with its Internet banking services this week have been caused by a malicious distributed denial-of-service attack.

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HBOS mortgage customers hit by systems glitch

UK banking group HBOS is working to fix a processing glitch that resulted in monthly mortgage payments being mistakenly taken from thousands of current accounts on consecutive days this week.

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Autonomy reports Merrill Lynch deal; raises outlook

UK-based Autonomy Corporation has signed US financial services firm Merrill Lynch to its information management software. News of the deal comes as the vendor raises its third quarter revenue guidance.

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Sibos 2006 from an Aussie bank IT manager's perspective

Jacqueline Guichelaar is general manager of the technology operations group at National Australia Bank (NAB). Here she shares her views on attending her first Sibos event, industry collaboration between bank IT professionals and opportunities for technology vendors to better align with banks' priorities.

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ABN Amro deploys DataSynapse GridServer

Dutch banking group ABN Amro has rolled out Grid technology from New York-based DataSynapse to improve productivity and performance levels at its derivatives trading division.

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HP takes a knife to blades with new architecture

HP has unveiled a new blade server architecture specifically designed to simplify systems management, aid virtualisation and address problematic data centre issues of power and cooling.

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Standard Chartered switches to Primergy BladeFrame system

Standard Chartered is installing the Primergy BladeFrame system from Fujitsu Siemens Computers as the platform for its new global core retail banking application.