Latest News
First STAC-AI benchmark results released
First STAC-T1 with a FPGA-based Tick-to-Trade Appliance
First STAC-N1 with Red Hat CoreOS and OpenShift Container Platform 4.
AWS c7i.metal improves on prior generation EC2 instance’s throughput and speed.
STAC neutrality and rigor remain unchanged
Featured Events

Spring STAC events - 2025
The Spring 2025 Summits are now open for registration:
- STAC Summit Singapore, 8 April 2025
- STAC Summit London, 29 April 2025 (+AI Track)
- STAC Summit New York, 13 May 2024 (+AI Track)
- STAC Summit Chicago, 21 May 2024
STAC Summits bring together CTOs and other industry leaders responsible for solution architecture, infrastructure engineering, application development, machine learning/deep learning engineering, data engineering, and operational intelligence to discuss important technical challenges in trading and investment.
Recent Blogs
A witty remark reveals some of the business dynamics around generative AI in financial institutions today (and something new for technologists to optimize).
After 16 years as the Securities Technology Analysis Center, we have become the Strategic Technology Analysis Center. But a new name does not mean a new identity.
The financial technology community has one responsibility in the COVID-19 crisis that only it can fulfill.
Hot Topics

Artificial Intelligence
Using neural and non-neural techniques to automate prediction and correlation

Quant finance (big data/big compute)
Making both compute- and data-intensive analytics faster and more cost effective