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Read on for the latest announcements on how Beacon’s clients, people, and technology are crafting the future of financial services in the cloud, as well as our insights on challenges facing the industry and how we help solve them.

How Beacon’s Next Generation UI Framework Boosts Your Bottom Line by Accelerating App Development All the clever algorithms and analytics in the world aren’t worth much unless you can easily use them for revenue-generating activities. One of the primary goals

Alternative investments are projected to increase significantly over the next few years, growing from $9.3 trillion AUM in 2022 to $18.3 trillion in 2027. Interest rate increases, market volatility, and unexpected geopolitical events have impacted all asset classes, causing risk

Beacon Platform delivers benefits to different parts of the companies that deploy it, from development through trading and risk management. Here is our top 10 list of benefits that Beacon brings to the development process. 10) Provides a secure environment

The Hydra in Greek and Roman mythology was a multi-headed serpent that spawned two new heads when one was cut off. Modern technology stacks can quickly grow to resemble this beast. Start with a core set of applications that support

What do you do when you want to trade a new product but your trading and risk systems don’t support it? Add a parallel system and lose full visibility of your portfolio? Or book placeholder trades and rely on proxy

In my sales travels I talk with a lot of developers in energy and commodity, banking, investment, and insurance markets. A common thread I hear is the challenge of leveraging existing investments in code and data, gaining access to new

Beacon Platform makes it easier to manage the elastic compute functionality of cloud providers. To help you keep track of compute usage as elastic CPU capacity automatically scales up and down, we have developed a simple management app. Available in

By Lukasz Macura & Steve Rapaport Beacon may be a buy-and-build platform, but we are always looking for ways to make the building part faster and easier for you. We’ve introduced several frameworks and low-code tools, including Glint, Fragments Framework,

By Claus Murmann and Ben Merrett Since releasing CME Group’s DataMine plugin on the Beacon App Store last year, many customers have taken advantage of our integration with dataset from the world’s leading derivatives marketplace. We have recently added three

By Claus Murmann and Tony Yum Beacon Front Office Suite includes reference implementations of pricing models such as Black-Scholes, Ju and Zhong American option approximation, and binary trees. That said, some customers prefer to use their own pricing library and/or

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