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Finance
Keeping Financial Institutions Running
In capital markets, fintech, retail and commercial banking, and insurance, InterSystems is helping the world’s most successful financial institutions meet their toughest challenges.
In capital markets, for example, rock-solid performance, scalability, and reliability amidst escalating data volumes are critical, even as markets unexpectedly spike.
InterSystems IRIS powers a wide range of mission-critical, high-throughput applications throughout the front, middle,
and back offices for the top banks worldwide, helping them meet their service-level agreements reliably, and at lower cost.
In retail and commercial banking, InterSystems IRIS enables our customers to manage risk across multiple products and regions, keep pace with changing regulatory demands, streamline operational processes and transform mountains of data into better business decisions.
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InterSystems Named a Visionary in First-Ever Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Database Management Systems
New report acknowledges InterSystems concurrent operational, analytics and machine learning capabilities Cambridge, Mass, December 1, 2020 – InterSystems, a creative data technology provider dedicated to helping customers solve the most critical scalability, interoperability, and speed problems, has been named a visionary in the first Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Database Management Systems (DBMS). Of the […]
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Coverage
Global Banking and Finance Review – How can Financial Services Firms Keep Pace with Escalating Requirements?
Financial services firms are currently coming up against a number of critical challenges, ranging from market volatility, most recently influenced by COVID-19, to the introduction of regulations. However, these issues are being made worse as many financial institutions struggle to make sense of the vast amounts of data available to them. Our UK Banking & […]
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InterSystems – September Newsletter
Please Opt-in to our newsletter InterSystems Insights – UK & Ireland news, product updates & events Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser %%dynamic_content_777%% InterSystems Insights As a valued member of the InterSystems community, welcome to our latest edition of InterSystems UK & Ireland newsletter.As we adapt to a new world, InterSystems stands […]
Blogs
How Capital Markets Firms Can Mitigate Risk in Periods of Uncertainty
This article, written by the Head of Financial Solutions at InterSystems, was first published on the InterSystems global website (link). Please watch the full webinar in which InterSystems takes a deep dive into the challenges facing capital markets firms and how they can mitigate risk, alongside a panel of other industry experts from Northern Trust, Westwood […]
Blogs
Podcast
How Data Bolsters the World’s Top Banks
Volatility has become the standard in stock markets across the world over the past several months. Ever since COVID-19 fired off an economic recession, capital markets firms have fought to stabilize their operations. But one key to success amid explosive markets lies within each organization: data. This week on Healthy Data, we host a discussion […]
Blogs
Turbulent Markets: A Spark for Better Technology
The COVID-19 pandemic has sent markets into chaos. In fact, 2020 has been the most challenging period in the modern era for financial services and capital markets firms. But there’s hope. Through better technology, capital markets firms can find a beacon to weather this period of volatility. And the right technology can provide new insights, […]
Blogs
Infrastructure Amidst Market Volatility – Part 1: A Strange and Uneasy Time
Editor’s Note: This is the first in a two-part series by leading global capital markets expert Larry Tabb. This article was originally published on the InterSystems global website and can be accessed from here. It’s certainly a strange and uneasy time. Not only did COVID-19 force countries into lockdown, but also the combination of poor […]
Blogs
Infrastructure Amidst Market Volatility – Part 2: A New Foundation
Editor’s Note: This is the second in a two-part series by leading global capital markets expert Larry Tabb. This article originally appeared on the InterSystems global website, and you can access it by clicking here. In part one, “A Strange and Uneasy Time,” we discussed how the volatility related to the COVID-19 pandemic put a strain on […]
Blogs
How Old Industries Can Learn New Technology Tricks
Established industries such as banks and healthcare can innovate with blockchain and big data. From hackathons to crowd-sourced code development, today’s technology can go from an idea to reality in a matter of hours. Think of it this way: It only took the developer of Angry Birds 53 attempts (or about nine months) to get it right. This […]
Blogs
Data Management in Capital Markets: An Ascending Priority
As an analyst at Aite Group, I frequently speak to business and technology leaders at capital markets firms to understand business strategy, the role that technology plays in that strategy, and the common challenges when striving for success. One of the talking points often brought up during my interviews is how far along the firm […]
Success Stories
Webinars
Why the C-suite need to care about data
A webinar to learn about the recent findings from two research papers on the major trends in data management for capital markets firms. Key discussion points include: • The business landscape impacting data management needs for both buy-side and sell-side firms • Major challenges in data management and architecture, with a focus on data silos […]
Success Stories
Use case equity trading platform
InterSystems Software Provides Ultra-Reliable, Real-Time Processing at Scale InterSystems Transactional-Analytic Database Chosen for Critical Application One of the world’s largest investment banks – which processes a significant portion of the entire world’s equity trades every day – migrated their main equity trade management application to InterSystems data platform technology. The organization has 50,000 employees and more than […]
Success Stories
TABB webinar- Data, Speed, trading
Proven Speed, Scalability, and Reliability for the Financial Services Industry In capital markets, fintech, retail and commercial banking, and insurance, InterSystems is helping the world’s most successful financial institutions meet their toughest challenges. InterSystems has been named a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Operational Database Management Systems. Webinar: Why the C-Suite Needs to Care About Data: A Capital Markets […]
Success Stories
MFS Investment Management Improves Performance, Reduces Risk
Switch From Relational Database to InterSystems Data Platform Accommodates Growth Risk is inherent in investing, and minimizing that risk is a common goal for money managers. MFS Investment Management®, a global asset management firm based in Boston, Massachusetts, manages more than $410 billion in assets for clients worldwide. When operating at the level of MFS, any trading […]
Blogs
Recognition
InterSystems is a 2020 Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice
In 2020, we were recognized as a Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for Operational Database Management Systems. We couldn’t be prouder of this recognition because it’s based on over 300,000 customer reviews regarding speed, security, service, and deployment. What our customers had to say: “Leading-edge software technology that deliveries a rock-solid application platform backed up […]
News
The need for speed: What if tech could work as fast as your imagination?
The global spread of COVID-19 has had seemingly unimaginable consequences on business. Entire industries have been shut down. Workforces have been sent to work from home. And many businesses are scrambling to shift their operations online. It’s ironic that as the world slows down and stays indoors, how quickly businesses respond to the impact of […]
News
Why banks must reduce tech complexities to offer open banking
Open Banking ecosystems present customers with the opportunity to view multiple account details from different financial organisations to access all their financial information in real-time and in one place, most commonly an app. However, it is reliant on these different institutions being able to surface and share data in a timely manner and this is […]
Blogs
Webinars
Data, Speed and Trading: Modernizing capital markets infrastructure
Markets have always revolved around data. As computing becomes more ubiquitous, however, both the markets and their data expand exponentially. The explosion in data taxes firms’ infrastructure as they acquire, aggregate and analyze it. In addition, as competition increases, the demand to directly trade off the information is compressing decision times. Firms have more pre-trade […]
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Interview, News, PR
Interview with Scott Gnau of InterSystems
VMblog recently connected with Scott Gnau, VP of Data Platforms at InterSystems where we learned more about InterSystems IRIS data platform, solving challenges related to data management, and tips for capital markets firms undergoing digital transformation. VMblog: What are the biggest challenges related to data management for capital markets firms and how does InterSystems IRIS address these […]
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PR
Survey of Leading Capital Markets Firms Uncovers Top Data Management Challenges
Research conducted by Aite Group and commissioned by InterSystems provides C-suite executives with insights into the competitive advantage of effective data management technology CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 6, 2020 –The leading data architecture challenges for capital markets firms center around data quality and delivering relevant data to the business, according to new research from leading global research […]
Blogs
White Papers
Why the C-Suite Needs to Care About Data
Why the C-Suite Needs to Care About Data: A Capital Markets Sell-Side Impact Assessment Survey, commissioned by InterSystems and produced by Aite Group, highlights the impact of poor data support on business processes, including financial, regulatory, and risk management. This white paper is based on conversations with executives with knowledge of their firm’s data architecture […]
Blogs
White Papers
A Capital Markets Buy-Side Impact Assessment Survey
Why the C-Suite Needs to Care About Data: A Capital Markets Buy-Side Impact Assessment Survey, commissioned by InterSystems and produced by Aite Group, highlights the impact of poor data support on business processes, including financial, regulatory, and risk management. This white paper is based on conversations with executives with knowledge of their firm’s data architecture […]
Videos
Operationalising AI
At InterSystems, we can help you make sense of your data. The InterSystems IRIS® data platform offers speed and scalability to help you overcome these challenges, using AI and ML to help you access and analyse your data in real-time. Please get in touch with us to know how we can help you do it.
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Overcoming Challenges – The Value of InterSystems Partnership
After more than 40 years of problem-solving, we know that technology alone doesn’t ensure success—the right partner will outlast any individual technology. True, trusted partnerships enable the best decisions, and the best decisions lead to the best actions. Which is why InterSystems strives for excellence in everything we do. Only through partnership can you […]
Blogs
The Everyday Investor Boom: Investment Firms Fighting Back vs Faster Fintechs
In February this year, fuelled by the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic, stock markets saw one of the most volatile periods on record, reminding many of the 1987 crash. Why is that February period of volatility relevant now? Well, its impact is still being felt today and it’s changed the way large investment firms have had […]
Blogs
Unlocking the power of your data
The market is shifting with incredible speed. Digital banks and new providers are bringing new products and offers to market, opening new market segments filled with consumers who are looking for enhanced, mobile-first experiences. Right now, you may be trying to provide customers with a richer experience – and customer’s expectations are rapidly changing and increasing. […]
Blogs
On-Demand Webinar: Leveraging Modern Technology and Architecture to Unlock the Transformational Power of Data
End-to-end Enterprise Data Strategy for Broadridge Register here to watch the full webinar for free by Jitendra Lulla, VP and Innovation Architect at Broadridge Financial Solutions. This article was first published on the InterSystems global website and can be accessed from here. Broadridge Financial Solutions spun out of ADP in 2007 to become one of […]
Blogs
Machine Learning Success Starts with Healthy Data
This article was originally published on the InterSystems global website (link), written by Scott Gnau, VP of Data Platforms. Machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) are becoming core functions of successful organizations, with data playing an increasingly important role in making or breaking these applications. The required fuel for effective and precise AI and […]
News
InterSystems Introduces Certification Program for HealthShare® HealthConnect, InterSystems IRIS®
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., July 24, 2020 – InterSystems, a creative data technology provider dedicated to helping customers solve the most critical scalability, interoperability, and speed problems, has introduced the InterSystems Certification Program – a new credentialing program offered through the company’s Learning Services. The InterSystems Certification Program offers exams and digital credentials to prove individual and […]
Blogs
Why Innovation is Key to Meeting the Challenges of the Modern Financial Services Sector – Part Two
As you’ll have read in the first part of this blog series, financial services firms are currently facing a number of critical challenges, such as complying with regulations like PSD2 and FRTB. Yet, until now, the majority have done very little to address these issues. Here we’ll look at how they can overcome these […]
Blogs
What Are the Key Challenges Facing the Modern Financial Services Sector? – Part One
Financial services firms are facing a number of critical challenges, including increasing trade volumes; periods of high market volatility; the introduction of new regulations, such as the Payment Services Directive (PSD2) and Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB); and the need to accelerate innovation. Businesses across the sector are increasingly looking to address […]
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How Capital Markets Firms Can Mitigate Risk in Periods of Uncertainty
Currently, external factors like the COVID-19 pandemic mean that the global economy has become increasingly volatile and capital markets firms are having to work harder than ever to make sure users, both retail and institutional, can continue to trade without interruption. As these financial organizations look to mitigate risk in this period of uncertainty, gaining […]
News
InterSystems – April Newsletter
Please Opt-in to our newsletter InterSystems Insights – UK & Ireland news, product updates & events Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser %%dynamic_content_777%% InterSystems Insights We wanted to begin this month’s newsletter by sending you our warmest greetings. As a valued member of the InterSystems community, and in light of the COVID-19 […]
Blogs
Q&A with Tim FitzGerald – EMEA Financial Services Sales Manager, InterSystems
As part of our Q&A blog series, Tim FitzGerald, our EMEA Financial Services Sales Manager, tells us about his more than 30 years’ experience in IT sales and what it’s like to have dinner with an astronaut. What’s your job role at InterSystems and what does it involve? I joined InterSystems as UK Banking […]
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Coverage
techUK – Why banks must reduce technological complexities to offer open banking
As an impassioned solver of data and real-time transaction processing problems in financial services, our UK Banking & Financial Services Sales Manager, Tim FitzGerald shares his insight with Tech UK online into how banks can improve their ability to offer open banking. At the heart of this is reducing technological complexities so they can begin […]
articles
Is Financial Services Regulation a Barrier to Innovation?
A greater proportion of IT decision-makers in the financial/banking sector see key financial services regulations as a driver of innovation (34%) than regard them as a barrier to it (24%). First published in Finance Monthly, November 2018 More than a third (34%) of IT decision-makers across the UK financial sector regard key financial services regulations […]
Success Stories
Leading financial services company enhances customer service by improving its database system
A need for better information management As one of the largest managers of financial assets in the UK, this InterSystems client has worked hard to build a reputation for financial security and investment success for over 150 years. However, they recognize that longevity alone is no guarantee of future growth. “While our experience and stability […]
Success Stories
TD Ameritrade Clears 500,000 Stock Trades Per Day with InterSystems Data Platform Technology
In 1975, TD Ameritrade started as a small brokerage firm in Omaha, Nebraska. It was a pioneer in helping the self-directed investor, being the very first brokerage firm to institute trading by touch-tone telephone. TD Ameritrade was also one of the first to offer Internet trading to individual investors – and they saw their business […]
Success Stories
InterSystems Data Platform in a Fortune 100 Investment Bank
CHALLENGE The development manager at a top global investment bank ($39.2BN revenues) needed to find a solution to meet the following demands of his organization’s business: The customer management application must support the ability to answer ad-hoc queries about an end customer’s assets The same system must support the ability to report traceability to show […]
Success Stories
MFS Investment Management Improves Performance, Reduces Risk
Switch From Relational Database to InterSystems Data Platform Accommodates Growth Risk is inherent in investing, and minimizing that risk is a common goal for money managers. MFS Investment Management®, a global asset management firm based in Boston, Massachusetts, manages more than $410 billion in assets for clients worldwide. When operating at the level of MFS, […]
Success Stories
Global Investment Bank Speeds Up Its Equity Trading System with InterSystems Data Platform
A leading global sell-side investment bank with 50,000 employees and more than $1 trillion assets under management had conflicting requirements for their transaction management and analytics platform to reliably handle increasing trade order volumes while lowering infrastructure costs. The globally distributed system had to be designed to accommodate billions of daily orders with sufficient headroom […]
Blogs
Meeting the Challenges of the Modern Financial Services Sector
Currently, there are a number of critical challenges facing financial services firms. Among them are increasing trade volumes; periods of high market volatility; the introduction of new regulations, such as the Payment Services Directive (PSD2) and Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB); and the need to accelerate innovation. Businesses across the sector are increasingly […]
Blogs
Why Innovation is Key to Meeting the Challenges of the Modern Financial Services Sector
Part 2 of 2 < Part 1 Financial services firms are currently facing a number of critical challenges, such as complying with regulations like PSD2 and FRTB. Yet, until now, the majority have done very little to address these issues. Here we’ll look at how they can overcome these challenges and why innovation will be […]
Blogs
What Are the Key Challenges Facing the Modern Financial Services Sector
Part 1 of 2 > Part 2 Financial services firms are facing a number of critical challenges, including increasing trade volumes; periods of high market volatility; the introduction of new regulations, such as the Payment Services Directive (PSD2) and Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB); and the need to accelerate innovation. Businesses across the […]
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PSD2 and the New Era of Open Banking
How Can Banks Prepare for the Age of Disruption The advent of the revised Payment Services Directive is a real game-changer for the European banking sector. PSD2, which went live in January 2018, is a directive adopted by the EU that is designed to regulate payment services and payment service providers throughout the EU and […]
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Managing transactions and analytics simultaneously
Increasing trade volumes and periods of high market volatility create technology challenges for financial services firms This is especially true for sell-side firms, which can experience extremely high transaction volumes, since they partition already high volumes of incoming orders into an even greater number of smaller orders for execution. At the same time, they must […]
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Triggered by Regulation
Why the Need to Comply is Driving Financial Services Firms to Adopt Data Management Best Practice Traditional database architectures are coming up short in today’s data-driven world. Part of the problem is that it is difficult for them to handle the tsunami of data coming into the organisation. Data volumes are growing rapidly. Analyst firm, […]