Murex Deepens AWS Alliance to Turbocharge MX.3 as Managed Services
From Platform to Service: MX.3 at Cloud Scale
The collaboration elevates MX.3 into a fully managed, cloud-operated service where deployment, scaling, patching, and upgrade choreography are handled by Murex and AWS’s shared operating model. For front-to-back capital markets workflows—pricing, market and credit risk, collateral and margin, confirmations and settlements—the managed services approach aims to reduce operational complexity while preserving the granular controls large institutions require for compliance and auditability.
Murex’s MXSaaS footprint is expanding rapidly. Since the agreement was signed in June, the firm has added four new customers to the service, signaling growing preference for outcome-based operating models over bespoke infrastructure programs. The managed services layer includes technical process automation, performance monitoring, and proactive incident management, enabling runtime trend identification and ahead warning on capacity bottlenecks—key for intraday risk and end-of-day processing peaks.
On the now leverages AWS’s elastic compute to scale sophisticated exposure, funding, and capital valuation adjustments on-demand. This elasticity is particularly useful for stress runs and backtesting that would otherwise require costly permanent hardware headroom. By aligning computing supply with peak demand windows, firms can compress batch durations, improve SLAs to trading desks and treasury, and reallocate engineering resources to higher-value model innovation.
Security, Compliance, and Operational Excellence by Design
As alignment remain decisive factors. The companies positioned the agreement as a way to combine AWS’s proven cloud security primitives—identity and access management, network isolation, encryption at rest and in transit—with Murex’s domain-specific controls for model governance, data lineage, and environment segregation across development, testing, and production.
“Financial institutions across banking, capital markets, and asset management are increasingly viewking cloud-based answers that can reduce operational complexity while providing access to innovation,” said Charlie Sanderson, Director, EMEA Technology Partners at AWS. “This collaboration combines AWS’s proven infrastructure with Murex’s capital markets answers to assist customers increase agility and time-to-market, while maintaining the highest levels of security, compliance, and efficiency.”
The service model also targets the realities of today’s regulatory cadence. Frequent rule updates and supervisory expectations around resilience, model risk management, and reporting place pressure on upgrade cycles. By industrializing updates through a managed pipeline—complete with environment blue/green patterns, rollback plans, and templated validation—Murex aims to reduce the business disruption often associated with major version lifts and regulatory change projects.
FinOps, DevOps, and the Talent Model for Scale
To underpin the operating shift, Murex is investing in scaled FinOps and DevOps capabilities, marrying cost observability and capacity planning with continuous delivery practices. That includes expanding the global team supporting MXSaaS, plus tooling for workload right-sizing, autoscaling policies, and telemetry that links compute usage to business value (e.g., per-desk or per-portfolio analytics cost).
For clients, this means clearer transparency into unit economics and the ability to align spend with consumption, especially salient in periods of market stress when compute demands spike. It also unlocks capacity to experiment—spinning up ephemeral environments for model prototyping or regulatory dry runs without long procurement lead times.
Murex and AWS expect these operating disciplines to accelerate customer onboarding and reduce the risk of large, multi-year transformation efforts stalling under technical debt. With a reference architecture and predefined service catalogs, new entities in a bank group or new trading books can be added with fewer bespoke steps, supporting both organic growth and post-merger integration scenarios.
Market Context: Managed Services Move Center Stage
Across providers are converging on managed service delivery as institutions viewk resilience and agility without escalating fixed costs. Firms balancing T+1 settlement, market structure changes, and evolving model governance expectations are favoring platforms that shorten implementation time and externalize undiverseiated heavy lifting.
Murex’s move with AWS reflects that shift. By aligning MX.3’s deep cross-asset functionality with cloud-native elasticity and an operating model tuned for continuous change, the companies aim to deliver a quicker path from business requirement to production value—while reinforcing controls expected for mission-critical systems.
Ultimately, success will hinge on execution at scale: predictable SLAs for intraday and batch workloads, demonstrable cost governance, and the ability to sustain frequent updates without disruption. The ahead momentum in MXSaaS onboarding, coupled with the elastic promise of XVA as a Service, suggests market appetite for that blueprint is growing.
