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Print this page   “Utility is success,” Thomas Edison once claimed, arguing he wasn’t motivated to invent things that didn’t sell well: if no-one used them, what was the point? Firms with competing visions of a more robust post-trade architecture for futures and options might bear this in mind. Market participants think standardizing trade allocations could prevent a repeat of the chaos that resulted from the thousands of trade breaks witnessed during last year’s Covid volatility, with many calling for a new Only users who have a paid subscription or are part of a corpo...

WatersTechnology.com Data is boring, right? A look at some innovative market data projects underway While market data departments are rarely highlighted when it comes to innovation, Max says that doesn’t mean there aren’t disruptive tech projects underway. Print this page   Market data, despite its importance to financial markets, is rarely a true hotbed of innovation. Aside from the growth of alternative data (which I admit, I always find very cool) and the issue of data latency—which spurred a budget-thirsty race-to-zero and drove the introduction of technologies such as ...

WatersTechnology.com Confidential computing projects could answer industry’s cloud security questions Perhaps smarter than blockchain and certainly closer than quantum computing, this type of complex computing could accelerate banks' move to the cloud—if the industry gets it right. Print this page   “It’s a funny story,” says Richard Brown, chief technology officer of R3, an enterprise software firm originally set up in 2014 as a blockchain consortium backed by major banks. When the vendor started working on Conclave, its confidential computing platfor...

Canadian universities outline several options for a central bank digital currency

WatersTechnology.com As ASX preps Chess replacement testing phase, other data & cloud projects progress Testing on the new DLT-based platform will begin in July. The Aussie exchange is also making progress on its DataSphere project and has addressed ASX Trade after an outage last year, according to the company’s CEO. Print this page   As the Australian Securities Exchange closes in on the completion of its ambitious Clearing House Electronic Subregister System (Chess) replacement project, the operator is also focusing efforts on a new data delivery platform. ...