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Fixed Income Markets Push Low Latency
Separate developments – with BrokerTec in the U.S. and with MTS in Europe – are pointing to the move by fixed income markets into the low-latency trading space. These developments follow on from the increasing adoption of low-latency technologies in the foreign exchange markets, as latencies are pushed lower for all asset classes. ICAP-owned BrokerTec…
Arista Application Switch Extends Choices for FPGA Deployment and Architectures
Last month’s announcement by Arista Networks of its 7124FX Application Switch – which incorporates an Altera FPGA alongside low-latency network switching – has expanded the possibilities for system architects looking to incorporate hardware acceleration by running application code – such as algo trading – on FPGAs. It’s also boosted the industry penetration of FPGA chipmaker…
Study Points to Google Searches for Stock Analysis
Investors should consider the frequency of Google searches for particular keywords when analysing movements in the stock market. This is one of the key practical recommendations of a new report from researchers at Essex Business School at the University of Essex and Norwich Business School at the University of East Anglia which has been published…
StreamBase Debuts LiveView 1.0 Real-Time Analytics
StreamBase Systems has released LiveView version 1.0, a real-time analytics platform for streaming and historical data, which allows trading firms to analyse business events in real time, before they are committed to enterprise data stores. The LiveView Continuous Query Server – built upon StreamBase’s complex event processing (CEP) technology – can consume data from more…
BlackRock Taps Panopticon for “Big Data Challenge”
Investment manager BlackRock is tapping Panopticon for its suite of information visualisation products, including its Developer SDK for Java and .NET, the Panopticon EX enterprise application and the Panopticon Rapid Development Kit. The tools will allow BlackRock to deploy Panopticon Treemap, Heatmap and other interactive data visualisation tools to support its internal operations and in…
Nexxcom Pushes Down Latency with Wireless Networks in NY/NJ and London Metros
With services aimed at the financial trading community, Nexxcom Wireless is rolling out its microwave wireless data network in the NYC/NJ and London, UK metro areas, beating the latency of fibre-optic wired services by a significant margin. The company has provided these latency figures for several popular routes: PATH LATENCY RTT* SPEED of LIGHT** Carteret,…
HKEx Announces Initial Hosting Ecosystem Members
Ahead of its Q4 launch for hosting services, Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEx) has announced 22 service providers that will set up to provide co-lo and connectivity to the exchange’s core trading platform. “The initial group of founding members, covering telecommunications, market data and financial technology services, provides an excellent base for our…
Hibernia Goes Live With NYSE/Nasdaq Link, Co-Lo
Hibernia Atlantic has gone live with a new fast fibre optic link, connecting Nasdaq’s data centre at 1400 Federal Boulevard in Carteret, NJ, with a popular carrier hotel at 165 Halsey Street in Newark, NJ, where NYSE Euronext maintains a point of presence for its SFTI network, which connects into its matching engines. Hibernia is…
McObject Adds Partners in U.K. and India
McObject, developer of the eXtremeDB in-memory database, is extending its sales reach and integration capability by partnering with Spreadbrokers in the U.K. and NSE.IT in India. Spreadbrokers based in London specialises in low-latency technology for financial markets, and will target buy-side and sell-side firms, with a focus on the data management aspects of portfolio optimisation,…
S&P Returns to Real-time with QuantHouse Acquisition
It was at the beginning of 2003 that Standard & Poor’s sold its real-time data feeds business – Comstock – to what was to become Interactive Data Corporation in order to concentrate on its then core businesses – ratings, evaluated pricing, reference data. Now, with a lot of water under the bridge, it’s back in…