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Digital Reasoning, Tableau, Cloudera Focus Unstructured Data Analytics on Financial Markets

Partnering with Tableau Software for data visualisation, and leveraging Cloudera’s Hadoop distribution for storage, Digitial Reasoning is applying its Synthesys unstructured data analytics platform at financial markets applications. Synthesys takes structured and unstructured text as input and then uses named entity recognition, understanding of time and geographic references, combined with patented relationship analysis, to develop...

Brits Say HFT Does Not Lead to Volatility

A report published by the U.K. government says that there is no evidence that high frequency trading leads to increased volatility, which is a key driver of market data rates. The report – The Future of Computer Trading in Financial Markets – by the U.K. government’s Office for Science – which is not a regulator...

Redline and Intel Highlight Proposed STAC-T1 “Tick to Trade” Benchmark

Redline Trading Solutions and Intel are highlighting performance benchmarks for the latest versions of Redline’s ticker plant and execution gateway software, conducted using the proposed STAC-T1 test harness designed to measure “Tick to Trade” latency. STAC-T1 – as administered along with other benchmarks by the Securities Technology Analysis Center – measures the latency of a...

Q&A: October’s Low Down on Latency with Pete Harris

More questions from the IntelligentTradingTechnology.com community e-mail bag, with some thoughts from me. Q: Profits are down at HFT firms, and regulation of them looks to be on the increase.  What does than mean for low-latency technology spend? A: I am sure there will be an impact, but I also expect investment in low latency...

Q&A: Rich Brown of Thomson Reuters Takes The Pulse of Machine Readable News, Social Media and Sentiment

As pointed to in our recent coverage, machine readable news is expanding its asset scope and geographical delivery. A good time, then, for IntelligentTradingTechnology.com to get an inside view on the topic from Rich Brown, head of Elektron Analytics at Thomson Reuters. Q: What’s your assessment on the current state of play re. trading firms...

Exegy/StreamBase Partner For Big Data and Low Latency

Linking its hardware accelerated ticker plant to StreamBase System’s complex event processing (CEP) software, Exegy is addressing different trading strategies with one solution, says chief scientist Scott Parsons. “Is this a play about big data or low latency? The answer is yes.” The Exegy to StreamBase link was made possible by leveraging published APIs for...

Low Latency Machine Readable News Feeds Broaden Content, Geo Reach

Recent developments from providers of machine readable news and sentiment analysis, and their partners, point to increasing take up of this segment of market data, and how its applicability is expanding both in terms of content type and trading markets served. Deutsche Boerse – with its AlphaFlash product that’s largely the result of its acquisitions...

Tibco Scales Spotfire 5 In Memory; Partners with Teradata

Tibco Software has announced Spotfire 5, the latest version of its analytics platform, which leverages in-memory functionality derived from Tibco’s ActiveSpaces data grid to improve performance.  Separately, the company has extended its partnership with data warehouse vendor Teradata. “Spotfire 5 is capable of handling in-memory data volumes orders of magnitude greater than the previous version...

Q&A: Dataminr’s Ted Bailey on Hotspots Among The Hashtags

Specialising in creating “actionable insights” for financial traders from the deafening noise that is Twitter, Dataminr recently made its own news by raising $13 million in Series B funding (for a total to date of $16 million).  We spoke to Dataminr founder and CEO Ted Bailey to find out more about the company and its...

Tibco Taps Pluribus for FTL Message Switch; Adds Appliance for Enterprise Messaging

Tibco Software has added to its messaging arsenal with the introduction of the Tibco FTL Message Switch and the Tibco Enterprise Message Service Appliance. Both new products were announced at the company’s annual Tucon user conference, held this week in Las Vegas. For the FTL Message Switch, Tibco is partnering with Pluribus Networks, a startup...