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Nasdaq and Amazon Web Services (AWS) have announced a new era of growth for global capital markets through a “Modernization Blueprint” that combines their expertise to offer next-generation infrastructure solutions. This collaboration aims to help market operators worldwide enhance liquidity, facilitate capital flows, and drive growth while maintaining high levels of performance, security, and resilience.
Key aspects of this partnership and the solutions offered include:
* Modernization Blueprint: This comprehensive, service-based solution helps financial market infrastructures transform their operations by leveraging tailored infrastructure, software, and data management solutions. It focuses on balancing resilience, data sovereignty, and operational flexibility.
* Nasdaq Eqlipse: This is a new brand encompassing Nasdaq’s complete suite of next-generation marketplace technology solutions. It delivers cloud-ready capabilities and data intelligence across the full trade lifecycle, integrating client feedback and Nasdaq’s development investments.
* Nasdaq Eqlipse Intelligence: A key component of Nasdaq Eqlipse, this solution is designed to unlock the full potential of market operators’ data with modern, cloud-based data management, analytics, and reporting capabilities. It enables the deployment of AI at scale to enhance data analytics and streamline workflows.
* Integrated Infrastructure: The partnership brings together AWS, exchange, and trading participant infrastructure in close proximity. This co-location provides global market participants with low-latency, high-bandwidth connectivity to AWS cloud services and their own co-located trading systems, while allowing operators to retain control of their data.
* Flexible Deployment Model: The modernization blueprint offers a new services deployment model that combines the expertise of both companies to reduce operational heavy lifting and accelerate modernization efforts. This allows market operators to focus on innovation and growth.
* Enhanced Global Interconnectivity: The new infrastructure is designed to open the door to greater global market interconnectivity with minimal latency, supporting increased liquidity and capital flows between markets.
* Scalability and Resilience: Building on AWS’s high-performing, scalable infrastructure, the solutions ensure that markets can handle extreme conditions and increased trading volumes, as demonstrated by Nasdaq’s own migration of its options markets (like Nasdaq MRX) to the cloud.
Benefits for Global Capital Markets:
* Accelerated Modernization: Market operators can modernize their systems more quickly and cost-effectively, overcoming barriers without compromising resilience or control.
* Increased Liquidity and Capital Flows: Enhanced interconnectivity and low-latency access promote more efficient capital allocation and trading.
* Innovation and Data Monetization: Cloud-based capabilities, including AI and advanced analytics through Nasdaq Eqlipse Intelligence, enable market operators to innovate faster and derive greater value from their data.
* Improved Security and Resilience: The solutions are built to uphold the highest levels of performance, security, and resilience, protecting investor confidence.
* Cost Efficiency: Cloud adoption can lead to reduced operational expenses.
* Regulatory Compliance: The blueprint is designed to allow operators to maintain data sovereignty and comply with local regulations.
Initial adopters of this modernization blueprint include Nasdaq’s Nordic markets, the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE), and Mexico’s Grupo BMV, signifying a strong commitment to transforming global financial infrastructures. This collaboration represents a significant step in bringing the benefits of cloud computing to the core of capital markets operations worldwide.

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