A-Team Insight Author: A-Team
Q&A: Mohammad Darwish of AdvancedIO on FPGA Directions
The electronic trading marketplace has been an early adopter of FPGA technology, most often to accelerate I/O and basic feed handling. Now, firms are looking to use FPGAs for more complex business logic. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com spoke to Mohammad Darwish, president and CEO of AdvancedIO Systems, about this trend. Q: Firstly, let’s find out some more about...
Hardware Acceleration Targets FX HFT
Recent announcements by both Celoxica and Redline Trading Solutions point to increasingly latency-sensitive high frequency trading strategies being deployed in the foreign exchange markets. To date, hardware acceleration has been focused on equities, futures and options trading. Celoxica has in fact added support not only for FX but also fixed income markets to its Generalized...
Bloomberg Open Symbology Gains Traction with Take-Up by Finra
Bloomberg’s addition of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (Finra) to a growing list of organisations recognising and using its open symbology offers financial firms another step along the way to using open rather than proprietary symbologies designed to improve market connectivity and transparency, while reducing users’ costs. Broker-dealers registered with Finra are required by the...
London Low-Latency Summit Just One Week Away
With just a week to go before the London Low-Latency Summit, I thought it was the right time to preview what the agenda will bring. Space at the new venue – the America Square Conference Centre – is limited but there’s room for a few more delegates, so be sure to register today. Now, with...
Q&A: Sumerian’s Bryan Clark on Big Data Analytics and Operational IT
For Sumerian, the focus is not so much on capturing and storing big data, but much more on analysing it to provide insight into how IT systems – especially for electronic trading – are working, how they might perform under load and how to tune them to make them both high performance and efficient. We...
Societe Generale Securities Services Supports Emergence Seed Capital Fund
Emergence, the first seed capital fund introduced in France with support from Paris Europlace, has selected Societe Generale Securities Services (SGSS) to provide valuation and trustee services to NewAlpha Asset Management, the fund’s financial manager and selector of small asset managers that will form the fund. Emergence was created on January 19 as an initiative...
XSP Extends Market Reach of Automated Corporate Actions Solution
XSP is extending the market reach of its automated corporate actions solution through a deal with technology services provider Broadridge Financial Solutions and a cloud-based version of its software. Under the terms of the Broadridge deal, Broadridge will offer XSP v5 as an integral element of its hosted applications service provider platform, as a service...
Q&A: Lee Staines of Celoxica on Low-Latency Beyond Equities
Celoxica recently extended its hardware accelerated data feed and execution platform to include foreign exchange and fixed income markets. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com caught up with president Lee Staines to find out what’s driving the development. Q: Celoxica has added support for foreign exchange and fixed income to its market data and trade execution technology. What are the...
Increasing Trade Performance: A Quest for Lower Latency, or Simply Improved Monitoring?
Performance. We all grow up assessed for it. But in today’s trading environment, how can organisations balance increased regulatory requirements and maximise the efficiency of their core trading functions? Less operational resources means firms are challenged with creating more sophisticated business logic that differentiates them from the competition in the never ending quest for lower...
Intel’s Sandy Bridge Set For Low-Latency Applications
Intel has released its Xeon E5-2600 processor family for servers, bringing its ‘Sandy Bridge’ architecture and Advanced Vector Extension instruction set to enterprise applications, including for low-latency trading. Intel claims that the 2600 can double the performance of computational applications, such as financial number crunching – analytics, complex algorithms, risk management. Implemented on 32-nanometre silicon,...