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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.
03 July 2007
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.
23 May 2007
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.
04 April 2007
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.
03 April 2007
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.
20 March 2007
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.
02 March 2007
Thomson Financial has recruited BT Radianz to provide network and connectivity services for its low latency data feed.
27 February 2007
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.
05 February 2007
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.
12 December 2006
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.
11 December 2006
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.
04 December 2006
National Australia Bank (NAB) says problems with its Internet banking services this week have been caused by a malicious distributed denial-of-service attack.
20 October 2006
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.
19 October 2006
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.
11 October 2006
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.
09 October 2006
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.
12 September 2006
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.
15 June 2006
Standard Chartered is installing the Primergy BladeFrame system from Fujitsu Siemens Computers as the platform for its new global core retail banking application.
06 June 2006
Spanish banking group Banco Santander International is implementing an IP virtual private network (IPN) from Global Crossing to manage its voice, video and data communications across the US and Latin America.
19 April 2006
Business continuity requirements are set to drive the uptake of fully-converged voice over IP networks on the trading floor from zero to 54% within the next three years, according to research undertaken by Finextra on behalf of BT.
06 March 2006
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