Lucera Details On-Demand Infrastructure for Electronic Trading
Lucera, a spin off from Cantor Fitzgerald, brings its on-demand, high-performance infrastructure for electronic trading to market today, offering trading firms reduced time to market, lower capital expenditure, on-demand scalability and reduced operational risk. The company and platform emerged from Cantor Fitzgerald in April 2013, after the financial services firm released a group of employees...
ITRS Adds Analytic Framework for Data Integrity to Geneos Suite
ITRS Group is piloting an analytic framework for data integrity that is designed to give investment banks, brokers and exchanges a real-time view across pricing data sourced from multiple market data feeds. A production version of the Geneos Market Data Monitor (MDM) will be released on 20 February, offering users predefined relative price algorithms –...
Talking Intelligent Trading With Andrew Delaney: Eikon – An Icon of Modern Trading Analytics?
At the risk of sounding contrarian, could it be that an earlier generation of Thomson Reuters management was onto something when it put a whole lot of the Thomson family’s eggs in the Eikon basket? This week’s unveiling of Eikon 4 – together with a bunch of sentiment analysis capabilities – illustrates the strides Thomson...
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...
Caplin Launches Caplin Direct SDP-as-a-Service
Caplin Systems’ launch today of Caplin Direct, a hosted, managed single-dealer platform for banks in the FX market, aims to make state-of-the-art SDP capabilities to financial institutions that may not have the budget or technical resources to implement a deployed solution. According to CEO Paul Caplin, the initiative represents the third generation of SDP development,...
Vulpes Investment Management Revamps IT for Systematic Trading
Vulpes Investment Management is revamping its technology infrastructure as it moves out of volatility trading and into systematic trading. The revamp includes implementation of OneMarketData’s OneTick stream processing and tick data management solution for quantitative research, modelling and strategy development, as well as a Tora electronic trading platform and portfolio management system, Redis in-memory database...
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,...