
New Take on Trading Technology: How to Navigate the Cloud-Tech Arms Race
Written By: Guy Melamed
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We’re on the cusp of a new arms race. That is the description given to the phenomenon involving the world’s largest cloud service providers competing to invest into the largest financial exchanges. Last year, Microsoft announced an investment of £1.5 billion in London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) to provide the exchange with data analytics, cloud infrastructure products, and custom Gen-AI models. Before this, Nasdaq partnered with Amazon Web Services to build the “next generation of cloud-enabled infrastructure” and Google invested $1 billion into CME Group.
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