The Cloud and the future of Financial Markets

The Cloud can help promote greater resilience, performance and security to enable the long-term vision of the market. Markets and policies, hand in hand with new technologies, are already paving the way for greater speed and transparency.

A recent Google sponsored study by Coalition Greenwich (September, 2021) showed that more than 93% of trading systems, exchanges, and data providers are in some way providing services on the cloud. The same study, revealed that about 72% of the financial industry across the buy side and sell side, intend to consume public cloud-data based market data within the next 12 months.

Risk Management

Data-driven decision-making and risk management have always been, and continue to remain, the cornerstones of the financial markets. Over time, technology innovation has facilitated access to better insights from data, and therefore, better decision-making and the ability to manage risk.

In moving to the cloud, the infrastructure – which in the past relied on a combination of people, processes, and some technology – becomes the code that runs applications. This early phase is key to empowering organizations to shift to a cloud-based, agile-first operating model that makes it easier and more seamless to launch new products in the future.

Regulatory Regimes

Any time significant technological change takes place, regulators explore its implications, particularly with respect to their ability to meet their objectives.

Over time, regulatory regimes – rules, regulations, statutes, interpretations, and guidance – will also adjust to new technologies, both benefiting the marketplace and advancing regulatory goals.

The Cloud is constantly being updated based on new regulatory parameters and increasing the ability to comply by allowing regulations to be integrated into all transactions.

Moreover, predicated on the vision of real-time regulatory reporting, and given the pace of technological change in the marketplace over the last several years, various regulators have been using more advanced analytics. This trend will continue to help them more effectively and efficiently meet their objectives, and monitor and meet the expectations they have for the entire market.

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