The Future of Big Data and Other Musings
By Michael Mayhew, chairman and director of research, Integrity Research Associates Last week, at A-Team Group’s Intelligent Trading Summit held in New York City, I moderated an insightful panel on the growing use of big data and data driven analytics in the buy-side research process. The panel of experts discussed a number of interesting topics...
Intelligent Trading Summit: Making the Most of Big Data
Big Data is growing in both volume and adoption, but it needs to be clean, synchronised, analysed and used sensibly in tackling business problems if it is to reach its full potential in the trading environment. Discussing Big Data for algo development and analytics at last week’s A-Team Group Intelligent Trading Summit, Peter Farley, director...
Q&A: Velocimetrics’ Steve Colwill on Real-Time Business Insight
As trading firms look to improve business performance, perhaps using sophisticated strategies running at speed, and regulators demand increased transparency and integrity across trading environments, the need is for tools that can monitor and analyse complex business flows. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com spoke to Velocimetrics’ CEO Steve Colwill about the need for real-time business insight and how it...
Talking Intelligent Trading with Andrew Delaney: ITS – An Architecture for Intelligent Trading
With just a week away from our inaugural Intelligent Trading Summit at London’s America Square conference centre – yes, that’s next Tuesday, March 4 so register to attend here if you haven’t already done so – I thought it would be useful to take a look at what’s in store. So here’s how we plan...
Big Data Technology & Tools – Can They Deliver the Elusive Alpha?
One of the hottest topics in the industry right now is whether the ability to leverage Big Data in the trading environment, with the use of more sophisticated analytics, will deliver real competitive advantage. Some say the jury is still out, but our panel of leading experts at next week’s A-Team Group Intelligent Trading Summit...
Talking Intelligent Trading with Andrew Delaney: No Sleep Till Bedtime!
Earlier this week, I blogged on our Reference Data Review channel complaining about the lack of easement into 2014. And so has the rush of last week extended into this as we corral the marketplace for the latest ideas and opinions for our upcoming conferences, which kick off in London on March 4 with our...
STAC Benchmarks GPUs for Options Risk Analytics
STAC has for the first time published results for its STAC-A2 options risk analytics benchmarks running on Nvidia graphics processing units (GPUs) that point to a near order of magnitude speed up compared to traditional x86 CPUs. STAC-A2 is a suite of benchmark tests developed by market participants that measure the time to complete the calculation of...
OptionsCity Details the Potential of Freeway Analytics
OptionsCity Software is offering multi-asset derivatives traders a consolidated solution for algorithmic strategy building, testing and execution through the integration of its recently released Freeway Analytics with its existing Freeway automated trading technology. The analytics solution initially uses historical futures market data from Vertex Analytics and allows traders to focus on developing trading strategies rather...
Leveraging In-Memory for Real-Time MapReduce Analytics
See the video below on how in-memory technology from ScaleOut Software can boost MapReduce 40x for financial applications, such as real-time risk analytics.
SAS Teams With SAP for Real-Time Analytics
Analytics specialist SAS is working with SAP and its in-memory HANA technology in order to offer real-time applications, including potentially for financial markets trading and risk use cases. Early offerings are due in the first half of 2014. Ken Tsai, head of SAP HANA product marketing and vice president of technology innovation platforms at SAP,...