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Intelligent Trading Summit: Managed Services and Cloud Solutions Gain Traction in Capital Markets
Managed services and cloud solutions are gaining traction in capital markets, not only because they reduce costs, but also because they offer opportunities to test innovative ideas without the need for capital expenditure. Moderating a panel discussion at last week’s A-Team Group Intelligent Trading Summit, Peter Farley, director at A-Team Group, asked the panellists to…
Intelligent Trading Summit: Leveraging Operational Analytics
Operational analytics are beginning to appear in trading workflows with the aim of mimicking the success of latency measurement and its ability to optimise trading connections for business advantage, but are operational analytics a step too far or can they, too, deliver benefits? These questions and more were raised during an expert panel session at…
Intelligent Trading Summit: Implementing an Intelligent Trading Architecture
The concept of intelligent trading is gaining momentum as trading firms acknowledge that competitive advantage is no longer only about speed, but also about a flexible and scalable architecture that can handle Big Data and analytics on the fly using technologies such as in-memory data and complex event processing. The technology elements and people skills…
Talking Intelligent Trading with Peter Farley: A Hectic Baptism
What a great way to get involved with a new company. After only a few weeks on board with The A-Team Group it was all systems go for our two flagship events in London last week, where we were able to showcase the range of industry debate around the market dynamics driving pre- and post-trade…
Intelligent Trading Summit: Making the Most of Big Data
Big Data is growing in both volume and adoption, but it needs to be clean, synchronised, analysed and used sensibly in tackling business problems if it is to reach its full potential in the trading environment. Discussing Big Data for algo development and analytics at last week’s A-Team Group Intelligent Trading Summit, Peter Farley, director…
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: That Was the Week that Was
I’m sure I’ve used that headline before but it seems apt: two conferences in one week, plus a data management training session in conjunction with our friends at EDM Works and JWG. Yes, last week was quite a week. For those of you that attended, I’m sure you’ll agree that Thursday’s Data Management Summit was…
Intelligent Trading Summit: The Human Resources Conundrum
Statistics presented by MathWorks at this week’s A-Team Group Intelligent Trading Summit suggest a significant skills gap among UK graduates entering the financial services sector and a need to develop fresh skills in areas such as data science. Presenting the results of the company’s skills research project among 43 buy-side firms, Steve Wilcockson, industry manager…
Intelligent Trading Summit: Tackling Today’s Problems to Deliver Next Generation Trading
Today’s trading environment is ring-fenced by problems, but there are solutions and technologies that can revitalise trading and make it fit for purpose for next generation traders who are already immersed in technology. Presenting a keynote address at A-Team Group’s Intelligent Trading Summit, Steve Grob, director of group strategy at Fidessa, described what is going…
Intelligent Trading Summit: An Architecture for Intelligent Trading
A-Team Group’s Intelligent Trading Summit dedicated to discovering What’s Next for Data Driven Trading Technology got underway with an inspiring opening keynote presentation from Alessandro Petroni, senior principal architect, financial services, at Tibco Software. Petroni discussed the need for intelligent trading, the challenges it presents and the value it offers. He also described the management…
Perseus Telecom Adds London Metro Microwave Connectivity
Perseus Telecom has closed the gaps between London’s trading markets with microwave connectivity linking the Equinix LD4 data centre in Slough, the NYSE data centre in Basildon, the London Stock Exchange (LSE) data centre and the City based London Hosting Centre. The metro connectivity links Equinix LD4, which hosts foreign exchange and equities trading engines,…