BHB NewsLetter September 2019

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Issue 21 - SEPTEMBER 2019
BAHRAIN BOURSE CONCLUDES ITS INTERNATIONAL INVESTOR
ROADSHOW (CONTINUED)
BAHRAIN BOURSE TURNS TO AWS CLOUD TECHNOLOGY TO
ENHANCE PERFORMANCE AND INNOVATE FOR CUSTOMERS
The Bahrain Bourse roadshow
p r o v i d e d r e p r e s e n t a t i v e s
of 4 listed companies the
opp or tun it y t o s howc a s e
their business developments
and g rowt h strateg ies to
international fund managers.
Sh. Kha lifa bin Ebrahim
Bahrain Bourse announced
that it has started migrating to
Amazon Web Services (AWS) due
to the increased availability and
security it will get and to
increase its application speed
a nd p e r f o rma n c e , wh i l e
reducing operational costs. The
first phase of the migration
includes moving backup and
Al-Khalifa, Chief Executive
Officer of Bahrain Bourse lead the
delegation which included;
Bahrain Telecommunications
Company (‘Batelco’), Ithmaar
Holding, National Bank of
Bahrain, and SICO BSC (c). The
roadshow enabled participating
disaster recover y solutions
to the cloud, with plans to
adopt advanced data analytics
services to build smart and
innovative trading services.
Using AWS, Bahrain Bourse
will take advantage of a range of
s e c u r it y t o o l s , i nc lud i ng
encryption, DDoS Mitigation, and
monitoring and logging to ensure
listed companies, representing
BD 1.8 billion total market
capitalization, to hold more than
30 one-to-one meetings with senior
representatives of 9 fund managers.
During the conference, Bahrain
Bourse showcased key business
development plans and proposed
they continue to maintain the
highest levels of security for their
customers. Bahrain Bourse will
also be able to retrieve archived
data within minutes, enabling
it to be more responsive in
delivering critical and timely data
to customers and to more rapidly
meet any regulatory requirements.
As it expands its AWS adoption,
equity market development
roll-outs during a MENA-focused
panel discussions showing
capital market opportunities in
Bahrain. Bahrain Bourse team
a l s o v i s it e d Lux emb ou r g
S t o c k E x c h ang e Ma r k e t .
Bahrain Bourse will continue
to explore new ways to support
customers with more advanced
trading tools by leveraging
data lake tools such as Amazon
Simple Storage Service Glacier
and AWS Glue, as well as data
analytics services such as Amazon
Redshift, Amazon Kinesis Data
Analytics and Amazon QuickSight.