Financial Services

The Q4 2009 Intelligence in Finance newsletter provides insights on the latest news and resources from Intel for the financial services industry. Learn about the latest Intel technology roadmaps and recent white papers from IT@Intel.

IBM has announced benchmark results for the Thomson Reuters Market Data System v6.3 that measure the performance of the IBM BladeCenter* HS22 server running Reuters Market Data System v6.3.

ScaleMP, a leading provider of virtualization solutions for high-end computing, announced qualification and support of over ten server platforms based on the latest Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series (previously codenamed “Nehalem”) from major server vendors. See the press coverage on…

Kx Systems has released version 2.6 of kdb+. This new version offers many exciting features to help achieve the lowest latency possible. Achieving low latency starts with measuring latency, the inclusion of a nanosecond timestamp within kdb+ will allow users to more closely measure and monitor their latency and take appropriate steps to achieve their latency targets.

Hear what panelists from Aleri, Thomson Reuters, Sybase and Informatica have to say about the key risk, data and analytics issues affecting the financial services sector at the recent Intel fasterCITY event in London. See the video.

Presented at the IntelRISK, DATA & ANALYTICS event in London recently, Andy Hirst of SAP discusses how to get actionable insights from best-in-class data reporting. Watch Generating Actionable Insights from Risk Reporting and Analysis.

Liquidity risk: what is it and what does it mean to the financial services industry? PJ DiGiammarino, CEO -JWG-IT Group addresses the topic at the Intel fasterRISK, DATA & ANALYTICS event in London. Watch the video.

Learn how Cisco is enabling high end risk computation, sever, network and data innovation to increase performance. View Increasing Performance for High-end Risk Computation presented by Cisco’s John Smith, Business Development Manager Financial Markets at an Intel fasterCITY event for the…

Bob Scanlon, Group Chief Credit Officer for Standard Chartered Bank and one of the industry’s most experienced credit professionals, offers his unique and engaging perspective on risk management at a recent Intel fasterCITY event in London. View the video.

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How do you best handle exponentially growing volumes of financial market data while meeting the need for real-time database analysis of millions of streaming and historical records? Kx Systems addressed this need for their kdb+tick ultra high-speed database, used by trading groups worldwide, with scalable Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series-based servers.