smartTrade Technologies, a global leader and specialist in ultra-low latency, multi-asset electronic trading and payments solutions, today announced that the company is leveraging Amazon Web Services (AWS) to enhance smartTrade's market-leading platforms, accelerate innovation, and deliver greater value to its clients. Through a new strategic initiative named the MetaCloud project, which enables smartTrade to efficiently manage and deploy its solutions across both public and private cloud environments, the company will capitalize on the greater flexibility, scalability, and resilience of a hybrid cloud approach to meet the evolving needs of its clients while optimizing customer deployments.

Driven by its innovation incubator, smartTrade Advanced Innovation Lab (SAIL), smartTrade is enhancing its capabilities via the MetaCloud project, utilizing AWS to streamline its operations and focus on delivering innovative solutions for its clients. These include LLM powered automation and insights for front office workflows, enabling quicker and smarter decisions; as well as analytics, enabling financial institutions to mine their market and trading data ensuring client value and service are optimised. A sophisticated hybrid cloud environment enables automated deployments and seamless integration of Generative AI.

smartTrade selected AWS for its cutting-edge technology and expertise, utilizing key services like Amazon EC2 within Amazon EKS, Amazon Aurora, and AWS Direct Connect. This initiative strongly supports smartTrade’s goals for enhanced scalability, performance, and innovation.

Migrating to AWS yields significant benefits, including enhanced productivity and rapid scalability, with the ability to provision complete environments in under 15 minutes. AWS services are also instrumental in smartTrade’s innovation roadmap, powering advancements like its smart Copilot AI solution, which optimizes trading processes and client management.

"Building on AWS is about strategically positioning smartTrade to define the future of trading and payments technology," said David Vincent, CEO & Co-Founder of smartTrade Technologies. "Leveraging the advanced infrastructure and services of AWS allows us to accelerate our innovation roadmap, particularly with advancements like our AI smart Copilot and advanced analytics services. This ensures we stay ahead of the curve, delivering cutting-edge, scalable solutions that will set our clients, and smartTrade, apart for years to come."

"AWS's capabilities augment smartTrade's existing strengths, further accelerating their innovation roadmap, enhancing their market-leading platforms, and enabling the delivery of next-generation solutions to their clients," said Scott Mullins, Managing Director, AWS Financial Services. “We are excited to provide smartTrade with AWS’s proven performance to push the boundaries of innovation in trading technology, enabling smartTrade to stay ahead of the curve, leveraging technologies like Generative AI and scalable infrastructure to power shape the future of its ultra-low latency trading and payments."