http://itcommunity.intel.co.uk/community/uk/server/fastercity?view=blog Latest Blog Posts in Financial Services Community en Tue, 29 Jun 2010 18:42:13 GMT Clearspace 2.5.18 (http://jivesoftware.com/products/clearspace/) 2010-06-29T18:42:13Z en http://itcommunity.intel.co.uk/community/uk/server/fastercity/blog/2010/06/29/whats-really-changed-in-25-years-of-risk-management I attended Intel's FasterRisk in London on June 21 at the invitation of SAS's technology partner Hewlett Packard (HP). The event was hosted by Nigel Woodward, a former GEIS colleague, now Global Director Financial Services ESS at Intel. Nigel reminded framework" "enterprise risk managememnt" "firmwide risk" "high performance hpc computing" "risk erm Tue, 29 Jun 2010 18:42:13 GMT webadmin@intel.com http://itcommunity.intel.co.uk/community/uk/server/fastercity/blog/2010/06/29/whats-really-changed-in-25-years-of-risk-management 2010-06-29T18:42:13Z 2 months, 1 week ago http://itcommunity.intel.co.uk/community/uk/server/fastercity/blog/comment/whats-really-changed-in-25-years-of-risk-management http://itcommunity.intel.co.uk/community/uk/server/fastercity/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=13048 http://itcommunity.intel.co.uk/community/uk/server/fastercity/blog/2010/06/03/19th-fastercity-evening-mini-conference-june-21-2010 Where: Royal Institute of British Architecture (RIBA), 66 Portland Place, London W1 In 2009 following the events of 2008 we talked about risk being topical. Politics and market evolution is a gradual process, but it can be seen that now in mid 2010 financial_markets intel it roi server technology trading fastercitylive Thu, 03 Jun 2010 13:25:21 GMT webadmin@intel.com http://itcommunity.intel.co.uk/community/uk/server/fastercity/blog/2010/06/03/19th-fastercity-evening-mini-conference-june-21-2010 2010-06-03T13:25:21Z 3 months, 1 week ago http://itcommunity.intel.co.uk/community/uk/server/fastercity/blog/comment/19th-fastercity-evening-mini-conference-june-21-2010 http://itcommunity.intel.co.uk/community/uk/server/fastercity/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=13037 http://itcommunity.intel.co.uk/community/uk/server/fastercity/blog/2010/05/06/my-review-of-the-faster-capital-markets-beyond-event March 30th 2010 saw the 18 th London fasterCITY and over 120 attendees to hear about Intel’s 2 latest CPU releases – born as Westmere and Nehalem EX and christened as Xeon 5600 and 7500 Series! Shannon Poulin of Intel HQ gave an it xeon_7500 intel server technology financial_markets nehalem series trading fastercitylive xeon westmere xeon_5600 roi tco Thu, 06 May 2010 09:20:02 GMT webadmin@intel.com http://itcommunity.intel.co.uk/community/uk/server/fastercity/blog/2010/05/06/my-review-of-the-faster-capital-markets-beyond-event 2010-05-06T09:20:02Z 4 months, 5 days ago http://itcommunity.intel.co.uk/community/uk/server/fastercity/blog/comment/my-review-of-the-faster-capital-markets-beyond-event http://itcommunity.intel.co.uk/community/uk/server/fastercity/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=13023 http://itcommunity.intel.co.uk/community/uk/server/fastercity/blog/2010/03/30/fastercitylive-the-latest-industry-trends Following the presentations at FasterCITYlive this evening, the agenda was broadened considerably with a panel discussion featuring Greg Cubbon from BT, Misha Kipnis from ITRS, Nigel Matthews from Thompson Reuters, and Ian Wilkinson from Microsoft. fastercitylive Tue, 30 Mar 2010 21:28:55 GMT webadmin@intel.com http://itcommunity.intel.co.uk/community/uk/server/fastercity/blog/2010/03/30/fastercitylive-the-latest-industry-trends 2010-03-30T21:28:55Z 5 months, 1 week ago http://itcommunity.intel.co.uk/community/uk/server/fastercity/blog/comment/fastercitylive-the-latest-industry-trends http://itcommunity.intel.co.uk/community/uk/server/fastercity/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=13005 http://itcommunity.intel.co.uk/community/uk/server/fastercity/blog/2010/03/30/westmere-ep-for-performance-nehalem-ex-for-scale-out-says-nomura-bank The latency gains from switching to the Intel Xeon processors 5600 and 7500 series are significant. That is, they reduce latency from low microseconds to tens of nanoseconds. This was the key message delivered by Nomura Bank’s Ken Robson at fastercitylive financial_markets nehalem westmere xeon series xeon_7500 xeon_5600 Tue, 30 Mar 2010 21:24:52 GMT webadmin@intel.com http://itcommunity.intel.co.uk/community/uk/server/fastercity/blog/2010/03/30/westmere-ep-for-performance-nehalem-ex-for-scale-out-says-nomura-bank 2010-03-30T21:24:52Z 5 months, 1 week ago http://itcommunity.intel.co.uk/community/uk/server/fastercity/blog/comment/westmere-ep-for-performance-nehalem-ex-for-scale-out-says-nomura-bank http://itcommunity.intel.co.uk/community/uk/server/fastercity/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=13006 http://itcommunity.intel.co.uk/community/uk/server/fastercity/blog/2010/03/30/biggest-performance-leap-ever-in-the-history-of-intel-xeon-processors Intel’s Shannon Poulin was absolutely right when he referred to the Intel Xeon processor 7500 series as a game changer at today’s fasterCITYlive event. Providing up to a 20x performance increase on the previous-generation Intel Xeon fastercitylive xeon_5600 xeon_7500 xeon financial_markets Tue, 30 Mar 2010 20:39:27 GMT webadmin@intel.com http://itcommunity.intel.co.uk/community/uk/server/fastercity/blog/2010/03/30/biggest-performance-leap-ever-in-the-history-of-intel-xeon-processors 2010-03-30T20:39:27Z 5 months, 1 week ago http://itcommunity.intel.co.uk/community/uk/server/fastercity/blog/comment/biggest-performance-leap-ever-in-the-history-of-intel-xeon-processors http://itcommunity.intel.co.uk/community/uk/server/fastercity/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=13004 http://itcommunity.intel.co.uk/community/uk/server/fastercity/blog/2010/03/30/how-ibm-builds-on-the-xeon-5600-and-xeon-7500 “I feel to a certain extent, we are artists,” said Botond Kiss, business line manager, IBM BladeCenter. “We take the Intel processor and each OEM interprets it in different ways.” This was how Kiss introduced IBM’s take on xeon_5600 westmere nehalem xeon_7500 Tue, 30 Mar 2010 20:26:08 GMT webadmin@intel.com http://itcommunity.intel.co.uk/community/uk/server/fastercity/blog/2010/03/30/how-ibm-builds-on-the-xeon-5600-and-xeon-7500 2010-03-30T20:26:08Z 5 months, 1 week ago http://itcommunity.intel.co.uk/community/uk/server/fastercity/blog/comment/how-ibm-builds-on-the-xeon-5600-and-xeon-7500 http://itcommunity.intel.co.uk/community/uk/server/fastercity/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=13003 http://itcommunity.intel.co.uk/community/uk/server/fastercity/blog/2010/03/30/17th-fastercitylive-fastercapital-markets-and-beyond 6.00pm and Intel’s 17 th fasterCITYlive event is well underway. About 100 representatives from the world’s leading financial markets (LSE, NYSE Euronext), investment banks (RBS, Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, Nomura, UBS) and technology nehalem financial_markets xeon xeon_7500 westmere xeon_5600 fastercitylive Tue, 30 Mar 2010 20:08:35 GMT webadmin@intel.com http://itcommunity.intel.co.uk/community/uk/server/fastercity/blog/2010/03/30/17th-fastercitylive-fastercapital-markets-and-beyond 2010-03-30T20:08:35Z 5 months, 1 week ago http://itcommunity.intel.co.uk/community/uk/server/fastercity/blog/comment/17th-fastercitylive-fastercapital-markets-and-beyond http://itcommunity.intel.co.uk/community/uk/server/fastercity/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=13001 http://itcommunity.intel.co.uk/community/uk/server/fastercity/blog/2010/03/22/find-out-how-to-accelerate-trading-with-the-latest-intel-technology The next FasterCITY event takes place 30 March 2010 and has the title ‘fasterCAPITAL MARKETS & Beyond’. It will look at how trading can be accelerated, how latency can be reduced and how energy use and resulting CO2 emissions can be cut xeon xeon_7500 trading nehalem financial_markets fastercitylive westmere xeon_5600 Mon, 22 Mar 2010 16:13:31 GMT webadmin@intel.com http://itcommunity.intel.co.uk/community/uk/server/fastercity/blog/2010/03/22/find-out-how-to-accelerate-trading-with-the-latest-intel-technology 2010-03-22T16:13:31Z 5 months, 2 weeks ago http://itcommunity.intel.co.uk/community/uk/server/fastercity/blog/comment/find-out-how-to-accelerate-trading-with-the-latest-intel-technology http://itcommunity.intel.co.uk/community/uk/server/fastercity/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=12994 http://itcommunity.intel.co.uk/community/uk/server/fastercity/blog/2010/03/11/risk-management-perspectives Bob Scanlon, Group Chief Credit Officer for Standard Chartered Bank and one of the industry’s most experienced credit professionals, offers his unique and engaging perspective on risk management at a recent Intel fasterCITY event in London. Watch Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:34:29 GMT webadmin@intel.com http://itcommunity.intel.co.uk/community/uk/server/fastercity/blog/2010/03/11/risk-management-perspectives 2010-03-11T10:34:29Z 6 months, 1 day ago http://itcommunity.intel.co.uk/community/uk/server/fastercity/blog/comment/risk-management-perspectives http://itcommunity.intel.co.uk/community/uk/server/fastercity/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=12988 http://itcommunity.intel.co.uk/community/uk/server/fastercity/blog/2010/03/11/generating-actionable-insights-from-risk-reporting-and-analysis Presented at the IntelRISK, DATA & ANALYTICS event in London recently, Andy Hirst of SAP discusses how to get actionable insights from best-in-class data reporting. Watch this to find out more  and share youe thoughts in this blog !. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:27:22 GMT webadmin@intel.com http://itcommunity.intel.co.uk/community/uk/server/fastercity/blog/2010/03/11/generating-actionable-insights-from-risk-reporting-and-analysis 2010-03-11T10:27:22Z 6 months, 1 day ago http://itcommunity.intel.co.uk/community/uk/server/fastercity/blog/comment/generating-actionable-insights-from-risk-reporting-and-analysis http://itcommunity.intel.co.uk/community/uk/server/fastercity/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=12987 http://itcommunity.intel.co.uk/community/uk/server/fastercity/blog/2010/03/11/fastercity-building-an-intel-community-in-worldwide-financial-services In 2006, Intel had a job to do – to show its relevance to the world of technology disrupting inefficient paradigms and enable the solutions which drive world commerce. Financial Services, like all industries has its own specialist drivers, and the Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:04:35 GMT webadmin@intel.com http://itcommunity.intel.co.uk/community/uk/server/fastercity/blog/2010/03/11/fastercity-building-an-intel-community-in-worldwide-financial-services 2010-03-11T10:04:35Z 6 months, 1 day ago http://itcommunity.intel.co.uk/community/uk/server/fastercity/blog/comment/fastercity-building-an-intel-community-in-worldwide-financial-services http://itcommunity.intel.co.uk/community/uk/server/fastercity/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=12986 http://itcommunity.intel.co.uk/community/uk/server/fastercity/blog/2010/03/11/fasterlab Intel engineering is renowned for its advances in silicon design and continuing the predictions of Moore’s Law. The advances in silicon and microarchitecture design are astounding and the quantum gains achieved are difficult to compare with it Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:03:18 GMT webadmin@intel.com http://itcommunity.intel.co.uk/community/uk/server/fastercity/blog/2010/03/11/fasterlab 2010-03-11T10:03:18Z 6 months, 1 day ago 1 http://itcommunity.intel.co.uk/community/uk/server/fastercity/blog/comment/fasterlab http://itcommunity.intel.co.uk/community/uk/server/fastercity/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=12985