This paper describes the current drivers behind the need for greater data analytical power within financial markets, the business and technical challenges these drivers imply and how the Microsoft High Performance Computing (HPC) platform can move financial institutions closer to goal of real-time pricing, trading and risk management across asset classes. Specifically, the paper illustrates many business scenarios present in financial markets that may benefit from the calculation scalability and fault-tolerance of Microsoft HPC, and how Microsoft is enabling greater productivity in financial markets by bringing this compute power closer to the traders, risk managers and researchers that need it.
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