Financial Services: Resources

Video Case Studies

• The Montréal Exchange’s Real World Advantage (Video)
  To maintain a competitive edge and provide the highest level of service to its customers, the Montréal Exchange depends on its SOLA® automated trading system and Sun servers based on AMD Opteron™ processors.

Case Studies

• Allianz Global Investors
  AGI virtualized half its servers using VMware and AMD, reducing capital expenditures and making the IT team more efficient.
• Bank Leu
  Upon installing a Microsoft SQL Server 2005 database solution, Bank Leu was able to boost user productivity by 40 percent, and cut implementation costs by 50 percent.
• Borsa Italiana
  AMD technology helps the Italian stock exchange meet the demands of increasing trading volumes and a growing business, while allowing a seamless upgrade path to quad core computing.
• Commerzbank North America
  Since deploying the AMD Opteron™ processor-based Egenera BladeFrame systems, Commerzbank North America dramatically improved the reliability of its applications, increased its processing power, and alleviated availability and space concerns.
• CyberTrader Success Story
  CyberTrader® looks to AMD to help sharpen its competitive edge through enhanced speed, capacity and flexibility.
  
• Deloitte Consulting
  Server virtualization utilizing AMD Opteron™ processors is helping Deloitte Consulting boost service levels with speed, agility and few physical servers.
• Exegy
  Exegy Ticker Plant running on AMD Opteron processors combines speed, capacity and low total cost of ownership.
• London Stock Exchange
  Change is a way of life in the enterprise. Today's IT professional must manage streams of data about technology just as technology itself manages data streams.

• The Montréal Exchange’s Real World Advantage
  To maintain a competitive edge and provide the highest level of service to its customers, the Montréal Exchange depends on its SOLA® automated trading system and Sun servers based on AMD Opteron™ processors.

• Philadelphia Stock Exchange
  The Philadelphia Stock Exchange migrated its largest trading interface and critical trading applications to 2-way Dual-Core AMD Opteron™ processor-based HP ProLiant® DL385 servers.
• Susquehanna International Group (SIG)
  SIG, a highly regarded institutional brokerage/ research provider, is experiencing a 40 percent reduction in data center power requirements and delivering increased performance by using AMD Opteron™ processors and AMD Athlon™ 64 processors.
• TheStreet.com
  By deploying IBM BladeCenter® with AMD™ Opteron™ processor-based blades, TheStreet.com was able to improve scalability to accommodate incremental growth of the business, and improve agility to quickly integrate new acquisitions and launch new products

Presentations

• Accelerating Market Data Infrastructures
  AMD's Torrenza Initiative in Capital Markets

White Papers

• Compliance Risk Management
  This paper highlights some of the practices financial firms need to implement for a strong and effective, near real-time compliance risk management program. Technology is one key element as modern financial operations are becoming increasingly complex.
• Operational Risk Management
  This paper provides a background on operational risk management and discusses some of the steps firms need to proactively practice to minimize operational risk exposures. The reader should come away with a basic understanding of key issues, a desire to learn more, and the tools to upgrade key technologies to address operational risk challenges in their organizations.
• Deriving Value in Credit Products
  As high performance computing becomes more widely accessible with microprocessors like the AMD Opteron™ processor, even more sophisticated computer analyses are possible.
• Dynamic Technologies are Enabling Financial Services Firms to Manage their Customers’ Assets Safely and at Record Speed
  Anyone who wants to understand the strains on an IT system in the financial services sector need only talk to Pete Abrams, vice president of marketing at security equipment maker NetContinuum Corp.

• Market Risk and Algorithmic Trading
  AMD helps provide the tools to increase speed and efficiency that financial firms focused on market-risk management and algorithmic trading will need to overcome the challenges they face today and in the years ahead.

• The Future of Real-Time Enterprise Risk Management ("ERM")
  In enterprise risk management, it is critical to perform the three Ms of risk—monitor, measure, and manage—to best provide actionable opportunities that anticipate and mitigate the various risk factors a financial service firm takes on, helping to improve its business performance.