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A Low Latency Cocktail from The Brewery

Last week, I chaired A-Team’s first Business & Technology of Low-Latency Trading event – #BTLLT for the twittersphere – at The Brewery (a former Whitbread Brewery, it’s now an established events venue), and these are a few geeky highlights from my day. Starting with the toy I wanted for Easter … it’s called RoboTrader from...

A-Team Insight Exchange Takes a Holistic Approach to Latency

Next week’s A-Team Insight Exchange event in London will feature a number of sessions that focus on latency and how to reduce it – not only through fast messaging middleware and co-location, but across an entire trading system stack – hardware, software and network. One session in the Insight Conference – “Beyond Equities and Sub-Microsecond...

Bordeaux Dispatch – Extending the Tentacles

Actually, I used Bordeaux to get your attention. I write this blog from rural Perigord – the village of Bourdeilles, to be exact – which sits close to some wine appellations that are regarded as Bordeaux, like St. Emilion and Pomerol. So, yes, it’s a stretch. But there is a theme at play here. Bourdeilles...

Q&A: RTI Introduces Wide Area Routing Service; Scaling To Hundreds of Thousands of Applications

Real-Time Innovations (RTI) is best known for its messaging middleware, which is deployed in support of low-latency applications such as algorithmic trading, within trading firms. Recently, RTI introduced the RTI Routing Service, which can be used to bridge applications and networks running in different locations – up to tens or hundreds of thousands of applications....

LSE Looking to the Future for TradElect

Following the tech blogs as we do, it’s been interesting to follow the smoke concerning the London Stock Exchange and the future of its TradElect system. Now it seems there’s some fire there, with the LSE acknowledging that it’s looking at the future of the platform, and how to keep the exchange in the low...

Sun To Focus on Latency In Trading Applications Developer Workshop

Sun Microsystems is running a “Trading Applications Developer Workshop” on Thursday, January 22nd, at its New York City customer briefing centre. The workshop – with an emphasis on latency – runs from 8.30am to 1pm, followed by lunch, and is free to qualified registrants. Click here to register. Attendance is limited so register today. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com...