Insight for the Algorithmic Enterprise

STAC® improves technology discovery and assessment in the finance industry through dialog and research guided by
the STAC Benchmark Council™, a group of leading financial firms and technology vendors.

Latest News

NVIDIA publish unaudited STAC-AI inferencing benchmark results for GH200

Comparing STAC-AI™ with other LLM benchmarking frameworks to explore key performance, cost, and quality trade-offs in GenAI applications in finance.

Featured Events

Fall STAC events - 2025

We’re excited to announce that registration is now open for the Fall 2025 STAC Summits, which now include two new global cities.

  • Sydney - September 11 (new location)
  • Tokyo - September 18 (new location)
  • London - October 7 (includes AI Track)
  • New York - October 28 (includes AI Track)
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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

Public and private cloud

Research and dialog into cloud services and cloud frameworks

Quant finance (big data/big compute)

Making both compute- and data-intensive analytics faster and more cost effective

Ultra-fast networking

Smaller and smaller latencies tend to matter more and more

Time Sync & Event Capture

Complying--and proving you comply--with new regulations in the EU and US.

Storage & memory revolution

A "Cambrian explosion" of new architectures...