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Equinix to build new data centre in Tokyo

Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the global interconnection and data center company, today announced the build of its newest Tokyo data center, TY5. The facility will meet strong demand from financial services firms, as well as cloud and content providers for data center and interconnection services in Tokyo.

06 November 2014

Company update/Network/systems management

BBVA awarded highest rating in operational sustainability

BBVA’s Data Processing Center (DPC) in Tres Cantos (Madrid) has been awarded the Tier IV Gold Certification of Operational Sustainability from the Uptime Institute. This is its highest rating in operational sustainability, which makes BBVA the first bank with such advanced installations in Europe.

04 November 2014

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UK's high value payment system Chaps goes down

The Bank of England was forced to suspend the UK's real-time gross settlement system Chaps for several hours on Monday while it investigated an unspecified technical glitch.

20 October 2014

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AIB taps Hitachi Data Systems for digital banking push

Allied Irish Bank (AIB) has enlisted Hitachi to overhaul its entire IT storage environment as part of a wider effort to become a more digitally-focused operation.

11 December 2013

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Brown Brothers Harriman to ditch traditional desktops as workers go mobile

US investment bank Brown Brothers Harriman expects to have abandoned traditional desktop computing within two years as employees move to mobile working, says CIO and partner Christopher Remondi.

01 October 2013

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Bank of America hit by website crash in the US

Bank of America's online banking website crashed on Friday, February 1st in the US leaving customers temporarily unable to access their accounts.

04 February 2013

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Banks announce support for SAP corporate cloud messaging network

Bank of America Merrill Lynch, The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Citi, Deutsche Bank, Nordea, Royal Bank of Scotland and Standard Chartered Bank have announced their involvement in the development of the SAP Financial Services Network (FSN), a cloud-based corporate-to-bank connectivity platform.

29 October 2012

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Indian financial services IT spending soars - Gartner

The Indian financial services industry will spend Rs377 billion ($6.77 billion) on IT this year, 17% up on 2011, according to Gartner.

11 June 2012

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IBM breaks new ground in Ukraine with $200m Ukrsotsbank IT outsourcing deal

UniCredit-owned Ukrainian bank PJSC Ukrsotsbank has signed a 10-year, $200 million IT systems and processes outsourcing contract with IBM.

09 February 2012

Finextra TV/Network/systems management

Global custodian bank survey

Tony Freeman, head of Industry Relations at Omgeo Europe, discusses the findings of Omgeo's latest survey on post-trade issues at Sibos 2011.

30 September 2011

Finextra TV/Network/systems management

Up in the cloud

DB's cloud guru Sean Kelley talks with Finextra about dbCloud.

25 October 2010

Finextra TV/Network/systems management

Standard Chartered unviells that there's an app for that

Standard Chartered unviells its mobile banking apps.

25 October 2010

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Transaction security - Swift style

Societe Generale talks us through the pilot for 3SKey.

25 October 2010

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Sugamo Shinkin Bank migrates PCs to IBM desktop cloud

Japan's Sugamo Shinkin Bank has selected IBM for the development of a virtual client environment, tapping Big Blue's desktop cloud.

19 August 2010

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Thomson Reuters unveils high-speed global network

Thomson Reuters has unveiled a global high-speed data distribution network and hosting environment designed to enable financial firms around the world to access and share information.

20 April 2010

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Finextra and the FISD partner for webcasts in 2010

The Financial Information Services Division (FISD) and Finextra have forged a partnership to deliver a series of video webcasts for market data and risk management professionals worldwide with a focus on real-time data management and delivery, reference data, and standards.

06 January 2010

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Business demands to outpace trading tech budgets in 2010 - Tabb

Speed will continue to be the name of the game for US equity brokers in 2010 but business demands beyond latency may outpace trading technology budgets, according to a study from Tabb Group.

06 January 2010

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SunGard targets financial firms with private cloud

SunGard Availability Services has launched a fully managed 'private cloud' service in the UK which will also be used by the vendor's financial systems unit to provide a platform for its Software-as-a-Service offerings.

13 October 2009

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Core banking renewal strategies lacking business vision - research

Core system renewal strategies at banks often create more problems than they solve, as firms ignore enterprise integration issues in favour of tactical one-off changes and quick-fix band aids, according to research conducted by Sterling Commerce.

17 September 2009

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Nyse Euronext teams with Juniper to build faster network

Nyse Euronext has inked a deal with Juniper Networks to build an ultra-low latency core network for the transatlantic exchange's new data centres in the London and New York metro areas.

25 June 2009