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    Future-Ready Markets

    How to Build Resilient, Cloud-Enabled Markets

    Cloud strategy is not just a technology decision for market operators. It’s a resiliency imperative. In a new white paper, Nate Sammons, Vice President Enterprise Cloud Architecture at Nasdaq, explores what resilience-by-design means in a cloud-forward world and how continuity and governance are impacted.

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    Building the Cloud Resiliency Playbook

    Exchanges, central counterparty clearing houses (CCPs) and central securities depositories (CSDs) are all largely progressing along their cloud journeys. As they do, new cloud-based resiliency considerations emerge, whether clear ownership across internal teams and service providers, visibility into dependencies or workload placement aligned to performance.

    This paper outlines the architectural and operating principles that can help institutions modernize with confidence, using industry best practices and examples of Nasdaq’s own experiences in maturing our cloud strategy.

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    In this paper, Sammons examines the core resilience considerations shaping cloud-forward operating models for FMIs, including:

    • Resilience-by-design principles: How FMIs can translate continuity, recoverability and controls into concrete architecture and operating decisions that hold up under stress.
    • Workload-informed architecture: How hybrid models can align latency, recovery, regulatory and data residency requirements with the right operating environment.
    • Static stability and pre-provisioned capacity: Why critical systems should think beyond on real-time scaling or improvised reconfiguration during incidents.
    • Multi-region design and controlled failover: What it takes to build redundancy that is understandable, testable and governable under real market conditions.
    • Security and response readiness: How playbooks, stress testing, out-of-band communications and disciplined incident response strengthen resilience.
    • Future-proofing resilience: What FMIs can do to prepare for continuous trading hours, AI-enabled operational intelligence and scaling resilience models.


       


    In this paper, Sammons examines the core resilience considerations shaping cloud-forward operating models for FMIs, including:

    • Resilience-by-design principles: How FMIs can translate continuity, recoverability and controls into concrete architecture and operating decisions that hold up under stress.
    • Workload-informed architecture: How hybrid models can align latency, recovery, regulatory and data residency requirements with the right operating environment.
    • Static stability and pre-provisioned capacity: Why critical systems should think beyond on real-time scaling or improvised reconfiguration during incidents.
    • Multi-region design and controlled failover: What it takes to build redundancy that is understandable, testable and governable under real market conditions.
    • Security and response readiness: How playbooks, stress testing, out-of-band communications and disciplined incident response strengthen resilience.
    • Future-proofing resilience: What FMIs can do to prepare for continuous trading hours, AI-enabled operational intelligence and scaling resilience models.


       
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