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Talking Intelligent Trading with Andrew Delaney: News You(r Execution Server) Can Use
We enjoyed an electric session this week with Bloomberg on what we used to call machine-readable news. Along with our own excellent webinar on Big Data last week – where we heard from, among others, Thomson Reuters Starmine’s Adam Baron on event-driven research – the seminar at Liverpool Street’s Andaz Studio offered some fascinating insight…
Opinion: Which standards for regulating the future?
By Chris Pickles, Co-Chair of FIX Trading Community’s Reference Data Subgroup and Member of the Bloomberg Open Symbology Team This week, ESMA is expected to issue the final technical standards for MiFID II and MiFIR that it will propose to the European Commission for approval. The standards can then be implemented by investment firms in…
LSEG and Boat Prepare MiFID II Trade Reporting Solution
London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) and Boat Services have joined forces to develop a MiFID II trade reporting solution, but plans may not end there with Boat suggesting the platform could be built out to deliver a utility-type service supporting a number of regulations. Initially, LSEG and Boat have signed heads of terms that will…
Talking Intelligent Trading with Andrew Delaney: MiFID II and the Coming Post-Trade Revolution
Word has it that ESMA is serious about its intention to publish its final guidance on MiFID II this month. With a possible (unconfirmed) publication date of September 24 doing the rounds, the market is bracing itself for a vigorously more prescriptive approach than under MiFID I, with less wiggle room for divergence from the…
Velocimetrics Releases First Major TipOff Upgrade Since TSA Licensing Deal
In its first major release since licensing TS Associates’ TipOff latency measurement system a year ago, London-based infrastructure monitoring specialist Velocimetrics has unveiled a new range of high performance TipOff appliances, one of which offers more than six times the storage capacity of previous appliances. The new appliance range will also underpin future releases of…
New Zealand’s Chelmer Adds Azul JVM to CSS Trading Platform
By Zoe Schiff Azul Systems’ resale agreement with Chelmer will allow the Auckland, New Zealand-based trading systems supplier to offer Azul’s Zing Java Virtual Machine (JVM) to add consistency and scalability to clients’ low-latency infrastructures. The deal also expands Azul’s presence in Asia / Pacific. The relationship stemmed from Chelmer’s desire to address performance issues…
Talking Intelligent Trading with Andrew Delaney: Plato Gets Its Socrates
Kevin Covington’s appointment to the board of Delta Capita this week underscores a perhaps more wide-ranging development: the emergence of the Plato Partnership, which named Delta Capita as its strategic consultant earlier this year. As you’re doubtless aware, Plato Partnership is an industry-led consortium that aims – in its own words – to offer “new…
Redline Adds Bloomberg B-PIPE to InRush Ticker Plant
High-performance data platform provider Redline Trading Solutions has added Bloomberg’s consolidated B-PIPE market data feed to the list of feeds available via its InRush accelerated ticker plant. Redline says the addition of B-PIPE was driven by requests from customers and by its strategy to expand globally. As a result of becoming a registered participant of…
Talking Intelligent Trading with Andrew Delaney: The Long and Winding Road to (CSC’s) Heart
Hats off to Hugh Hughes and the team at Fixnetix, who’ve sold the company to CSC (Computer Sciences Corp.), in a deal that gives the small but influential provider of managed services for trading the muscle it has craved for so long. It’s been a long journey with many twists and turns. Fixnetix has been…
Celoxica Adds Hardware-Based Ticker Plant for OPRA Data
Hardware accelerator specialist Celoxica has launched the Celoxica Ticker Plant (CTP) for the OPRA options pricing feed. CTP for OPRA aims to minimise users’ data centre footprint while processing the OPRA data set’s high message volumes at ultra-low latency. OPRA, the Options Price Reporting Authority, provides market data from 12 US options exchanges. Already considered…