Ralf’s Role at Reuters
OK, that should be Thomson Reuters, but the historical name just fitted the headline better, and I’m a bit of a poet. I’m referring to Ralf Roth, who recently joined TR from Deutsche Bank, as we noted here. And we also said that we were intrigued by his ‘Elektron Transactions’ job title and would be...
NYSE Technologies Looks to Open Source Data APIs; Wants Competitors To Partner
NYSE Technologies is planning to open source its messaging APIs, and hopes to attract other market participants – and competing data providers – to adopt them. The plan was outlined by Tony McManus, head of Enterprise Software at the exchange’s technology unit, speaking at a recent FutureDATA event in London. The APIs in question are...
Exclusive: A Preview of Benchmarks for Tibco’s FTL 1.1
Las Vegas is the destination this week for many Tibco users attending its annual Tucon event. The highlight for many might well be a show by 90s rockers Train at the big party on Wednesday night. But for all of us in the low-latency world, the focus will be on Tuesday’s keynote, when benchmarks for...
Connectivity in South America
With a limited exposure to the current financial crisis, Latin America, and Brazil in particular, are both attractive markets for investors who are willing to diversify their exposure and explore new destinations with the potential to generate high returns. Trading infrastructure and technology has also largely benefited from new investments over the last few years,...
Deutsche Bank’s Roth Named Elektron Head at Thomson Reuters
Thomson Reuters has filled a gap in the senior ranks of its Enterprise Solutions unit, with the appointment of Deutsche Bank’s Ralf Roth to the role of global head of Elektron Transactions and Strategy. Elektron is the company’s managed hosting and co-location offering, providing low-latency market data, risk management, analytics and transactional services. At Deutsche...
Burstream Rolls NanoSpeed Mesh – Sub-Microsecond Managed Data Service
Burstream – a new entrant to the market data space – has gone live with the first market on its NanoSpeed Mesh, a managed service leveraging FPGA-based technology from NovaSparks (see separate post here). The company is now delivering Nasdaq OMX data to customers co-located at the exchange’s Carteret, NJ data centre, typically in 600...
News – Machine Readable – is in the News
The low-latency delivery of machine readable news – to drive trading algorithms before the market moves – is a continuing story in itself. So here’s a quick roundup of recent headlines, including news from Selerity, Deutsche Borse, RavenPack and Thomson Reuters … * Selerity has installed an aggregation point of presence at Equinix’s Frankfurt data...
Q&A: TMX Datalinx’s Eric Sinclair on Global Expansion
In the wake of a called off merger with the London Stock Exchange, the acquisition this summer of Atrium Networks by Canada’s TMX Group gives it a global distribution network for its data services. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com found out more from Eric Sinclair, president of TMX Datalinx and group head of information services. Q: Can you explain...
NYSE Technologies Rolls Enterprise Ticker Plant
Based on several component products, NYSE Technologies has introduced its Enterprise Ticker Plant, designed to deliver market data to a wide variety of applications across a trading firm, from low-latency algorithmic trading systems to desktops running Microsoft Excel spreadsheets. Says Brian Doherty, global product manager for Data Fabric, the offering is essentially a productisation of...
Speed Bumps Ahead for FAST?
That might be the case for the FIX Adapted for Streaming (FAST) protocol, should a little known company with a litigious streak win the day. According to information that recently came to light, Realtime Data – which also does business as IXO – is in patent litigation with a number of banks, exchanges and market...