by Cloud9 | Nov 12, 2021 | Events, News, Thought Leadership
Join us for our next virtual roundtable discussion taking place on Thursday, December 9 @ 10am ET (3pm BST) as panelists from Google Cloud, Symphony and Cloud9 examine the importance behind smart cloud deployment and the mission-critical services that support trading and cloud-based workflows.
This discussion is particularly timely as the industry continues to adjust to hybrid working conditions that have accelerated wider use of the cloud and help drive a greater appetite for more sophisticated data and analytics on and off the trading floor.
We will examine:
- What the cloud deployment process looks like today and how is it changing as companies continue to adopt a more hybrid working culture that leverages a virtual trading floor
- How firms should be approaching security in the cloud and what do they need to do now to ensure they’re ready for the start of 2022
- How the cloud is empowering businesses to scale more seamlessly and the precautions businesses need to take when shifting to a cloud environment
- The changes that are taking place in the price discovery process and its impact on wider adoption of the cloud
- The biggest changes expected to take place amidst the growing reliance on cloud deployment, hybrid cloud, and even multi-cloud environments in 2022
by Leo Papadopolous | Mar 8, 2021 | Blog, Thought Leadership
The last year has been a whirlwind for everyone. And while regulators such as the CFTC have offered temporary relief and extensions to certain voice trading and record-keeping rules in the increasingly virtual environment, distributed compliance parameters still remain a pivotal element of the institutional landscape. A distributed workforce is not a new concept in any industry, including capital markets. However, a lot of firms continue to struggle with how to address the challenges they’ve faced in the process, particularly in a shifting market ecosystem. While every company needs to employ remote working capabilities, there’s no question that it is difficult to manage and can create potential compliance challenges.
Shifting to the Cloud
With financial institutions acclimating to a longer-term remote strategy and some even beginning to employ permanent work-from-home policies, there has been not only an increased appetite for the cloud – but an increased need. The cloud has become particularly important in enhancing flexibility and redundancy. For the first time, firms are more open and comfortable allowing their data – including voice and communication data and disaster recovery solutions – to reside in the cloud. With users that traditionally work both on and off the trading floor distributed across numerous locations, the cloud has become the easiest place to store and retrieve data. While compliance vendors have typically offered on-premise solutions, cloud-based support is still in its nascent stages. This has opened the door for compliance providers to offer new and more sophisticated products. Conversely, customers need to be asking whether or not compliance vendors can provide both on-prem and cloud-based support.
Open and Interoperable
At Cloud9, one of our goals has been to establish a community of specialists that collectively addresses the integration, efficiency and mobility challenges that firms have faced in the virtualization of our industry. The key is ensuring that vendors are interoperable to enable efficient workflows and avoid performance issues for customers. The same goes for voice trading APIs, which are becoming increasingly more sophisticated to align with the need for greater flexibility in the institutional trading community. Each company will format their data within APIs a bit differently. As a result, if you’re a compliance vendor for instance, you need to be able to normalize data before it can be used.
Industry-wide Data Standard
This raises the question of whether or not an industry-wide standard for data is necessary. For now, it’s not imperative but as data sets become larger and more complex, this may be something that we see the industry transition to, especially as teams become more dispersed and compliance oversight becomes more challenging. To learn more about distributed compliance and how to navigate these challenges in our shifting landscape, please sign-up for Cloud9 and EY’s Distributed Compliance Virtual Roundtable on April 8. You can secure your spot by emailing cloud9@paragonpr.com. For more information on Cloud9’s voice trading and cloud solutions, please contact us at sales@c9tec.com
by Cloud9 | Mar 4, 2021 | Events
Cloud9 Technologies and EY have announced a series of virtual roundtables that will examine compliance, data management and cloud deployment best practices for the institutional community.
The first of these virtual events will take place on Thursday, April 8 at 10 am ET and will examine the following issues:
- The shifting approach to compliance in what has become a more virtual environment comprised of a distributed workforce
- Shifting dynamics of voice trading and data capture from a compliance perspective
- The growing importance of establishing a robust community of partners
- Differences in the way asset managers, banks and brokers need to approach the distributed compliance process
- Key developments that will drive an efficient compliance process in an ongoing virtual landscape
The event will feature the following panelists:
- Moderator: Gráinne McNamara, Principal, EY
- Matt Smith, CEO, SteelEye
- Phil Fry, VP of Product Strategy, Verint
- Leo Papadopoulos, Co-founder & Chief Innovation Officer, Cloud9 Technologies
If you’re interested in attending the virtual event, please reach out to cloud9@paragonpr.com to reserve your spot.
