Waters Wrap: Big Tech, exchanges and a rapidly evolving market
Following LSEG’s partnership with Microsoft, Anthony talks with some industry participants to explore what this might mean for exchange tech going forward.

On November 9, 2021, after CME Group and Google signed a groundbreaking 10-year partnership/investment agreement, I wrote a column with this as the headline: “CME & Google—the first domino falls”.
The premise was hardly revelatory as the industry had been increasingly moving to the cloud for several years. What was clear, though, was that the exchange technology marketplace was about to undergo a massive shift. If the major exchanges were going all-in on cloud as the preferred infrastructure
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