Unaudited Report
Posted: November 14, 2025
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STAC accelerates financial technology decisions through rigorous, vendor-neutral research and industry-defining benchmarks.
For over 15 years, STAC has helped financial institutions and technology vendors cut through complexity with data-driven insight.
Our benchmarks, research, and events provide the truth beneath the hype—so you can evaluate, compare, and adopt technology with confidence.
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NVIDIA
NVIDIA provides GPU accelerators that help financial service firms drive their business faster, with better analytics, at lower cost, through AI or traditional computational finance. In addition, an ecosystem of software and service vendors can accelerate time to market of NVIDIA-based solutions.
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INTEL
Intel is a leading provider of compute, storage, and networking technology. In financial services, Intel-enabled solutions help enterprises become more insightful, agile, secure, and efficient.
KX
KX provides the kdb+ time-series database, a leader in high-performance, streaming, real-time and historical data analytics. KX also offers a broad suite of business intelligence tools and solutions with rich visualization capabilities built on kdb+.
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Proven impact
STAC insights drive decisions at the highest levels
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