Can Operational Analytics & Performance Measurement Boost Trading Returns?
Latency measurement is an established practice that has been used with great success to optimize trading connections for business advantage, but will operational analytics become the next big business differentiator? A panel of industry experts at our A-Team Group Intelligent Trading Summit on March 4 in London will now discuss whether this latest development is...
TMX Group Switches to Ullink for Pre-Trade Risk Management
TMX Group, operator of the Toronto Stock Exchange, is planning to migrate equity trading customers using Mantara pre-trade risk management and connectivity tools to Ullink solutions. TMX has maintained Mantara products since the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in October last year, but will cease to do so once it is up and running...
Options Adds Quincy Extreme Data as it Builds Out Pipe Velocity Platform
Options, a provider of trading infrastructure-as-a-service, has partnered Quincy Data to offer its customers trading at Equinix NY4 and the CME access to the Quincy Extreme Data ultra low latency market data service. The addition of Quincy Extreme Data to Options’ Pipe Velocity electronic trading infrastructure solution was driven by a request from an investment...
Tech Matters with Pete Harris: Lenovo – Remember That Name
A new name is set to appear in financial markets data centres. With its planned purchase of IBM’s low-end server business, China’s Lenovo is set to become a major arms dealer to trading enterprises. The transaction – announced last week and subject to regulatory approval (including related to foreign investment) – will see Lenovo pay...
MathWorks Extends Matlab Capability through Integration with Numerix
MathWorks and Numerix have integrated the Numerix Cross-Asset Integration Layer with MathWorks’ Matlab numerical computation environment to allow Matlab users to access Numerix calculations in the creation of applications for pre-trade pricing, modelling and analysis of complex financial instruments. The integration was completed last year and incorporates Numerix CrossAsset Integration Layer templates in the Matlab...
IXcellerate Adds TMX Atrium Connectivity to Moscow One Data Centre
IXcellerate has added TMX Atrium connectivity to its Moscow One data centre, bringing the total number of carriers connected to the centre to 10. TMX Atrium offers ultra-low latency connectivity services and in this case provides some of the lowest latency connectivity between Moscow and European financial centres including London, Frankfurt and Stockholm. A round...
Q&A: Exablaze’s Matthew Chapman on Network Switch Latency and Management
In a world where major network vendors like Cisco Systems and Arista Networks are competing on increasingly complex functionality, there is still room for niche products that fulfill straightforward local connectivity needs, including manageability with negligible latency. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com spoke to Exablaze’s CTO Matthew Chapman about this need, and how his company is addressing it. Q:...
Q&A: Solarflare’s Bruce Tolley on Packet Capture and Performance Management
Packet capture – grabbing every data packet on a network for analysis – is becoming increasingly important, not just for specialist latency measurement but for higher level monitoring and management of trading and compliance functions. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com spoke to Solarflare’s Bruce Tolley how and why it is being integrated into the company’s network interface cards. Q: Solarflare has...
Onix Solutions and VDIware Plan to Extend Nanotick Historical Market Data Service to Venues beyond the CME
The Nanotick high-precision historical market data service developed by Onix Solutions (OnixS) and VDIware is to be extended beyond its initial scope as a service for the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) with coverage of additional venues across Europe and North and South America due to come on stream next year. The joint initiative was set...
London Stock Exchange Taps NeXXCom for Low-Latency Equinix Wireless Service
The London Stock Exchange today announced a millimetre-wave wireless service providing low-latency connectivity between its City of London data centre and Equinix’s LD4 data centre in Slough, which is host to many markets and trading firms. The service is being introduced in collaboration with NeXXCom Wireless and is likely to deliver a sub 300 microsecond roundtrip when...