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A-Team Makes the BBC News!
Reference Data Review’s editor Andrew Delaney was interviewed for a BBC World Service show that aired this morning. The focus is on high frequency trading from our Low Latency Summit event earlier this week, but Andrew talks about regulators, data management and risk from about 7 minutes 30 seconds… http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01j0081
From Big Data to Big Gains – Take a Step Back
By Atul Singh, Capco www.capco.com While there is no argument about the potential benefits of big data, the road ahead for organisations to realise those benefits is still being paved. “Overwhelming” is the buzz word and it is not just related to the volume of the data, but also to the implementation efforts required, and…
BBC Covers Low-Latency and Analytics; Interviews Low-Latency.com and TS-Associates
The BBC dropped by the Low-Latency Summit on Tuesday with a mission to find out more about electronic trading, low latency and analytics. Interviews with Pete Harris, editor of Low-Latency.com, Andrew Delaney, editor-in-chief at A-Team Group, and Henry Young, CEO at TS-Associates, were conducted, and edited into a rather nice entry-level segment. Listen here.
Global Legal Entity Identifier System is Moved Another Step Closer to Completion
The Regulatory Oversight Committee (ROC) of the global Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) system has taken another significant step forward with the endorsement of three pre-Local Operating Units (LOUs) and the exclusion of 3,000 pre-LEI CFTC Interim Compliance Identifier (CICI) codes from the system. It is also finalising the appointment of a board directors for the…
London Stock Exchange Taps NeXXCom for Low-Latency Equinix Wireless Service
The London Stock Exchange today announced a millimetre-wave wireless service providing low-latency connectivity between its City of London data centre and Equinix’s LD4 data centre in Slough, which is host to many markets and trading firms. The service is being introduced in collaboration with NeXXCom Wireless and is likely to deliver a sub 300 microsecond roundtrip when…
ScaleOut Pushes Hadoop Towards Low-Latency for Real-Time Analytics
OK, so the headline is a tad extreme, but bear with me. Recent developments combining in-memory technologies and Hadoop/MapReduce from ScaleOut Software point to a future where big data analytics and real-time processing, as it’s defined in the financial markets, could meet. ScaleOut has just released its ScaleOut hServer V2, an in-memory data grid, which it claims can boost…
InfoReach Outlines Results of TMS Integration with R Analytics Language
When InfoReach integrated the R programming language into its Trade Management System (TMS), it was responding to one client request, but interest is rising and the company expects more users of the system and its Prelude hosted trading platform to take advantage of its provision of access to R analytical language functions and trading models….
Q&A: McObject’s Steve Graves on Vectors, CPU Cache and Pipelining to Boost Analytics Performance
Trading firms are looking to boost the speed at which they run analytics, in order to provide faster trading signals and more effective risk management. Leveraging vector-based processing, and managing data so that it remains in the CPU cache can help. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com spoke to McObject’s CEO Steve Graves for some explanations. Q: You just released…
BittWare’s TeraBox Bulks Up FPGA Processing for Trading Scale and Analytics
FPGA specialist BittWare has introduced TeraBox, an appliance that delivers up to 16 FPGAs, and targeted at high scale trading and analytics applications. TeraBox supports up to eight BittWare S5-PCIe-DS cards, each of which hosts two Altera Stratix V FPGAs, 64 gigabytes of RAM and 16 10gE network ports. Thus, each 5U appliance can scale…
Q&A: BSO Network Solutions’ Fraser Bell on New Frontiers for Low-Latency Connectivity
Moving into emerging markets around the globe is very much in the minds of major trading firms, and as a result, lowering the latency of access is of increasing importance. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com caught up with BSO Network Solutions managing director Fraser Bell to find out what the drivers are, and how his company is responding. Q:…