BigDataForFinance.com’s sister community – Low-Latency.com – just conducted an insightful Q&A with Rich Brown, who leads machine readable news programs at Thomson Reuters. It’s a topic that spans both low latency and big data, and you can read it here.
Equities markets are entering a more distributed, always-on phase. Liquidity is fragmenting across venues and geographies, trading hours are extending toward 24/5 and beyond, and market data volumes, investor expectations and competitive pressure are all rising at once. Many of the platforms that still underpin the equities industry were built for a different era –...
The pursuit of lower latency in electronic trading hasn’t disappeared, but the engineering decisions behind it are becoming more selective. Rather than trying to make every component of the trading stack as fast as possible, firms need to determine where microseconds genuinely affect trading outcomes, where predictable performance matters more than absolute speed, and where...
A-Team Group’s Digital Assets & Tokenisation Briefing assembles an exclusive group of CxOs and senior technology innovators. These leading market practitioners and infrastructure providers are collectively building the digital rails and decentralised networks that will power Wall Street 2.0.
At the same time, the growth of high frequency and event-driven trading techniques is spurring demand for direct feed services sourced from exchanges and other trading venues, including alternative trading systems and multilateral trading facilities. Handling these high-speed data feeds its presenting market data managers and their infrastructure teams with a challenge: how to manage...