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xCelor, CIARA Pair Servers and Market Data Feeds
Low-latency trading solutions provider xCelor has partnered with high-frequency trading technology server company CIARA to integrate xCelor market data feed handlers with CIARA Orion HFT servers. The partnership and the integrated technologies, which are live in production, provide low-latency trading to user firms so that they need not spend resources on IT engineering to achieve…
‘Tick To Trade’ Emerges As Latency Solution
The latency solution developed jointly by Solarflare and LDA Technologies has delivered a lower latency by figuring out how to push packets of information through their system faster and more directly, explains Ahmet Houssein, vice president of marketing at Solarflare. Using the “tick-to-trade” method of picking up packets sent through a user datagram protocol (UDP),…
Data Processing Strides Pave The Way To More TCA Capability
Squarepoint Capital’s expansion of its use of Kx Systems technology for investment research capitalises on the provider’s strength at normalising data, tying together data sources and increasing the speed of its data processing — in a manner that sets the stage for more effective transaction cost analysis (TCA). Squarepoint uses Kx Systems’ Kdb+ time-series database…
Rival Systems Extends Reach Into Equities
Trading and risk management software provider Rival Systems’ partnership with the Lime Brokerage unit of Wedbush extends Rival Systems’ reach beyond its core constituency in futures and options, into equities trading in US markets and dark pools, according to Robert D’Arco, CEO, Rival Systems. Lime Brokerage and Rival Systems have launched an integrated service combining…
RegTek Delivers Tactical Software to Support Strategic Approaches to Regulation
RegTek Solutions, a subsidiary of Risk Focus formed early this year, has introduced EMIR-Ready, a regulatory readiness testing and validation service designed to help firms within the scope of European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR) comply with changes to the regulation’s Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) that come into play on 1 November 2017. EMIR-Ready is a…
Trading Communications Become A ‘Mammoth’ Challenge
The volume of securities trading communications that requires recording and the amount of time that regulators mandate that information be retained have become a “mammoth” challenge for financial services firms, according to speakers in a webinar hosted by Intelligent Trading Technology on April 25. MiFID II goes far beyond the UK Financial Conduct Authority’s rules…
Industry Doubts Urgency Of US CFTC’s Reg AT
The industry’s sense of urgency concerning Reg AT is dropping, because little action is expected to put its rules in effect in the US following the May 1 ending of the comment period on the regulation. Reg AT, the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s Regulation Automated Trading, contains risk and transparency provisions for automated trading….
Fixed-Income Trading Operations Catch Up
Fixed-income trading operations may be as much as 15 years behind equities trading operations, but they are catching up quickly, according to executives in the field who spoke at the FIX Trading Community’s Americas Trading Briefing in New York on April 26. “All the advancements in technology, the transfer of information and the execution of…
MDX Technology License Helps MarketAxess Users Get Liquidity
Real-time data distribution solution provider MDX Technology’s addition of MarketAxess as a provider of market data through its platform will help users attract liquidity from buy-side clients, according to Paul Watmough, CEO of MDX Technology (MDXT). “We can, from the same secure channels and mechanisms, attract liquidity back on to [MarketAxess] trading platform, so we…
Buy-Side Automation Of Trade Orders Rises
Metori Capital Management’s selection of QuantHouse’s QuantFACTORY algorithmic trading development framework represents the beginning of buy-side firms automating trade order execution based on a portfolio manager’s conceived strategy, according to Stephane Leroy, business co-founder and chief revenue officer of QuantHouse. While sell-side firms have already had automated trade execution based on pre-set strategies in place…