Posted September 5, 2025 by Adriana Saindon

STAC Launches Gradient-Boosted Tree Benchmark in STAC-ML™

We’re pleased to announce that the Gradient-Boosted Tree (GBT) benchmark suite, named El-Popo, is now live in STAC-ML™.

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Posted March 25, 2020 by Peter Lankford

The COVID economy: How can the financial technology community help?

By Peter Lankford, Founder & Executive Director, STAC
and Peter Nabicht, Head of Strategy, STAC

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Posted September 5, 2025 by Adriana Saindon

STAC Launches Gradient-Boosted Tree Benchmark in STAC-ML™

We’re pleased to announce that the Gradient-Boosted Tree (GBT) benchmark suite, named El-Popo, is now live in STAC-ML™. This release formally extends the STAC-ML program to one of the most widely used machine learning approaches in financial services.

Posted December 3, 2023 by Peter Lankford

LLM “Hunger Games”

A witty remark reveals some of the business dynamics around generative AI in financial institutions today (and something new for technologists to optimize).

Posted October 15, 2023 by Peter Nabicht

Always strategic

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.

Posted March 25, 2020 by Peter Lankford

The COVID economy: How can the financial technology community help?

The financial technology community has one responsibility in the COVID-19 crisis that only it can fulfill.

Posted November 15, 2017 by Peter Lankford

Cat videos vs FRTB?

What will happen if all the major banks burst out to a handful of public clouds at the same time to meet the enormous computing requirements of new regulations? Your kids may not be pleased....

Posted September 10, 2017 by Peter Lankford

App timestamping and MiFID 2: Myths and mysteries

The STAC-TS Working Group has poured a lot of effort into developing standards and software for demonstrating timestamp accuracy to the satisfaction of European regulators concerned with RTS 25 of MiFID 2. Much of that effort has concerned software-application timestamps. App timestamping is central to many firm's plans but is one of the most misunderstood issues with RTS 25.

Posted August 7, 2016 by Peter Lankford

Some pics from Spring 2016 STAC Summits

It was great to see packed houses in London, Chicago, and New York at the STAC Summits this past May and June (in fact, there was 15% higher attendance by user firms than 2015!). For those who couldn’t make it, I thought I’d share a few photos.

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STAC and members of the STAC community post blogs from time to time on issues related to technology selection, development, engineering, and operations in financial services.

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