In our June 08 issue timed for SIFMA in New York we had a skew in our focus to trading, low latency and things front office securities. This time it is the turn of SIBOS in Vienna, SWIFT’s annual conference, to give us our lead. This issue concentrates more on banking topics, notably risk management, treasury and some trade finance. With over 180 companies attending the technology exhibition and being in Europe – SIBOS this year is certain to be well attended.

One wonders whether our friends at SWIFT have been looking at Intelligence in Finance, with a home page that refers to disruptive trends and technology, innovation and collaboration, how banks will respond to global economic change and a shift in gravity from west to east along the lines of trade plus corporate and social responsibility (which aligns with our datacenter energy efficiency position) all these we covered over the back issues.

In technology articles the big news in this issue is the September 15 release of the new 6 core 4 socket CPU from Intel. Code named during development as Dunnington, this important new product will be known as the Intel® Xeon® processor 7400 series, and will appear in multiple form factors including pedestal, rack and blade. This represents further advance of the Core™ microarchitecture with multicore and socket capabilities enabling higher performance for multi threaded applications. Intelligence in Finance gives a glance at the preparation that has been taking place in lab tests with partners so that FSI workloads get exposure to the capabilities of new processors. As the trusted Core™ microarchitecture gets its new member – eyes start to look forward to “Nehalem”, the next microarchitecture in Intel’s roadmap, and one slated and eagerly anticipated to raise the bar further on all axis, performance, energy consumption and form factor.

Labs are a recurring theme across a number of articles – this underpins a theme we have been developing about the importance of engineering in the optimisation of infrastructures. Engineering is a lab based exercise, so you will see an ongoing and we hope increasing reference to how IA (Intel Architecture) is tuned to get the best results for FSI specific workloads. Credit going to engineers and partnering companies putting in the investment to make this vital bridge between technology and business.

Coming up on our calendar after SIBOS is HPC on Wall Street on 22 September where Intel with partnering friends will be participating in the debate around HPC application in financial services – notably around trading, but with applicability to risk and analytics. 7 October in London sees this theme extended with fasterRISK DATA AND ANALYTICS, the 9th in this series with now over 1500 people having participated since we started this connection with the market nearly 2 years ago. As we look further forward, plans are underway for similar activity in New York we hope before Thanksgiving.

Intelligence in Finance is an important vehicle for us to communicate with the market – and lives in conjunction with www. intelfasterfs.com – as with all communication – especially as it goes online, we need your permission to communicate. Please visit the site and sign up.

Thank you, look forward to meeting you in the following months, in Vienna, New York, elsewhere or online!

NIGEL WOODWARD
Global Director, Financial Services
Intel Corporation

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