As you read this edition of Intelligence in Finance – summer vacations will have faded into history and the Q4 race begun.

In the last two issues we have focused on the quest for low latency in trading and the challenges of the data mountain – from market data to the new strictures of regulatory reporting. In this issue we apply a more technology-centric approach and focus on the data center itself - the challenges of design, power consumption, the green debate, and in the context of the financial services industry (FSI) its relevance to the effective management of operational risk.

Nigel Woodward Financial Services Director UK Intel

This month at Intel sees the completion of Intel Architecture’s (IA) Intel® Core™2 family with the arrival of 4 socket quad core capability. IA has now become established as the high performance X 86 environment with today’s strategy decision makers standardizing on this environment. This, combined with the acceleration features in IA, strengthens the foothold Intel is establishing around front office trading and low latency in the wholesale markets – a theme highlighted at High Performance Computing on Wall Street.

With HPC on Wall Street now over, we turn our attention to SIBOS in Boston in October. With a theme of convergence and corporate connectivity this year, we will look at where technologies, established and emerging, can bridge vital gaps in the supply chain. Both HPC on Wall Street and Sibos provide interesting views from different ends of the financial services spectrum, the subject matter of both demonstrates we are clearly on a path of convergence with overlapping businesses and common challenges in technology where performance and scale, interoperability and standards are consistently center stage.

At Sibos in Sydney last year, under our banner of fasterCASH, we introduced the concept of mobile computing to extend the touch points of automation in the supply chain and to link the physical trading of goods with financial services. This has continued to exercise the markets’ minds in 2007 – and will no doubt surface in some fascinating new approaches to corporate banking, cash management and payments services in the near future.

Intelligence in Finance highlights the myriad of places where Intel is playing its part across FSI. We communicate this through this newsletter and events across all the major geographies – and from today, our new FSI website, which will keep you connected to the key issues and developments in the FSI world as we see them.

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