The transformation of Capital Markets; AI, blockchain, big data and the cloud

The Capital Markets industry is experiencing a fundamental transformation. As more applications and services move to the cloud, businesses are consuming more bandwidth, managing new services and having to analyse and store a rapidly increasing amount of data. Meanwhile, investor spending on financial data has jumped to post crisis record and big fund managers need to analyse potential trading signals while remaining compliant. This is fundamentally changing how they operate and do business.

The emphasis on end point security, Software Defined Networking (SDN), Network Function Virtualisation and regulations such as MiFID II and the impending Fundamental review of the trading book (FRTB) and Securities financing transaction regulation (SFTR) are just some of the challenges facing those in the Capital Markets space.

To meet these, new technologies have been developed to help automate tasks and to interrogate the new quantities of data that would be impossible for humans to process. Cloud services can be quickly ordered and provisioned, giving businesses a much greater degree of flexibility. AI can help spot problems, analyse complex unstructured data or automate time consuming tasks, while blockchain can be used to manage transactions by time stamp critical data and data provenance, providing an additional level of trust that a conventional database can’t match. The use of open source distributed processing frameworks like Hadoop technology can be used to manage big data to support advanced analytics initiatives including predictive analytics, data mining and machine learning applications.

We invite you to join Colt at an exclusive dinner for IT business leaders from the Capital Markets sector to debate what the future looks like and how these technologies should be managed if they are to make a significant competitive edge.