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AlgoFast Plans to Build Up Partner Program and Push Down Latency
AlgoFast’s first partnership with another independent software vendor, trade routing, market data and technical analysis specialist CQG, takes the company a step closer to its ultimate goal of providing its algorithmic event trading software to the online retail market. The partnership allows CQG to supply AlgoFast’s software with its global market data and trade execution…
BT Extends Radianz Base with Move into Interxion’s London Data Centre
BT’s decision to deploy a range of BT Radianz services at Interxion’s Brick Lane, City of London data centre marks the company’s second move into a carrier neutral collocation data centre in London following a deal to run services out of Equinix data centres, including a London location, in April last year. The company says…
Interactive Data Sets Out on Route to Deliver Real-Time Evaluated Pricing Services
Interactive Data is building out real-time delivery of its evaluated pricing services starting with plans to expand its real-time fixed income pricing services to include real-time evaluations. The expanded service is due to roll out in the final quarter of 2013 and will be followed by additional evaluation services with availability boosted from end of…
Q&A: Gil Tene of Azul Systems on Why Java Works for Low Latency
It’s a bit of a paradox that Java is so widely used across all applications and industries, and yet is often cited as not suitable for the automated trading space. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com caught up with Gil Tene, CTO and Co-founder of Azul Systems, to find out more about Java performance, and how to improve it. Q: To…
OneMarketData Extends Reach of OneTick Complex Event Processing Engine
OneMarketData has extended the reach of its flagship complex event processing (CEP) product OneTick through a contract win with market-maker Optiver and an integration arrangement with execution and order management systems supplier FlexTrade Systems. Optiver selected OneTick to support its activities in the Asia Pacific region and is implementing the OneTick engine and its historical…
MemSQL Ships Distributed In-Memory Database
Following up on its unveiling in June of last year, San Francisco-based MemSQL has released a distributed version of its eponymous in-memory database, aimed at introducing big data scalability to the low latency performance provided by the initial release. With its distributed version, MemSQL is providing in-memory performance, with access via the common SQL database…
S&P Capital IQ Details First Data Service Using Real-Time Technology Acquired with QuantHouse
S&P Capital IQ has gone live with its first data solution based on real-time technology for exchange and market data distribution acquired with QuantHouse in April 2012. The company’s consolidated financial data feed has been up and running since early March and offers normalised, real-time global content from 110 exchanges that can be accessed using…
Otkritie Teams with SunGard to Deliver DMA Service Including Algo Trading
Russian institutional broker Otkritie Capital is working with SunGard to deliver a direct market access (DMA) service that supports automatic real-time currency conversion from the Russian Ruble to the US Dollar, as well as client access to Russian trading venues using Otkritie’s suite of algorithmic trading strategies. The companies completed work on the service in…
Continuum Analytics Provides Python Insight into Thomson Reuters Databases
Continuum Analytics is providing access to Thomson Reuters’ QADirect data offering via Wakari, its browser-based Python data analytics platform. Python is an open source computer language that was first released in 1991, and which has grown in popularity in part because of its emphasis on code readability and compactness. A number of financial markets participants…
WM Datenservice Leads Effort in Europe to Issue pre-LEI Entity Identifiers
WM Datenservice, acting as a pre-Local Operating Unit (LOU) in the global legal entity identifier (LEI) system, has registered 10 German companies with pre-LEI codes called German Entity Identifiers (GEIs) since it started issuing codes early this month. WM suggests it could issue GEIs to companies outside Germany if more pre-LOUs are not up and…