Xcitek has hired Steven Price, previously IT manager at Magenta One. There, he was responsible for the IT infrastructure at Magenta One’s London and Jersey offices. For Xcitek, Price will be based in London and will be application support and implementation manager for its flagship software solution XSP. Price will report directly to Neil Sheppard, chief operating officer of XSP Europe.
Trader desktop solutions have advanced rapidly over the past few years, driven by new technology approaches, rising volumes and different types of data, interoperability, demand for ease of use, and the coronavirus pandemic that called for a desktop review as working from home became mainstream and later transitioned to hybrid working. Next generation desktops will...
Investment managers must take a fresh approach to data management, stressing trusted partnerships with outside expertise over traditional outsourcing models, as they seek to adapt to a rapidly changing economic landscape, a report has urged. The binary build-versus-buy strategy that has been the basis of innovation adoption for decades has been upended by advances in...
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The highly specialised realm of high frequency trading without doubt is a great driver for a range of high performance technologies that are becoming essential tools for Wall Street. More so than the now somewhat pedestrian algorithmic trading and analytics/pricing applications that are usually cited as the reason that HPC is hitting the financial markets,...
