Introduction to the Third Generation Platform for Financial Markets

In an era of high-speed trading and intensive regulatory oversight, the human workflow has become overwhelmed. While machines make us more efficient, the business is about ensuring the financial capabilities of people. To succeed, we have to form effective and empowered communities through third-generation platform services. The third-generation platform – which is based on the cloud and brings together mobile technology, social platforms and big data – will enable a holistic global community to collaborate, be informed and market ideas and opportunities ... delivered with high levels of security, efficiency, resiliency and regulatory compliance. This report introduces the expected next-generation platform that will eventually affect all financial services workflows.