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The Future of Big Data and Other Musings
By Michael Mayhew, chairman and director of research, Integrity Research Associates Last week, at A-Team Group’s Intelligent Trading Summit held in New York City, I moderated an insightful panel on the growing use of big data and data driven analytics in the buy-side research process. The panel of experts discussed a number of interesting topics…
Intelligent Trading Summit: Implementing Intelligent Trading Architecture
Intelligent trading architecture is emerging as technology developments support a move beyond trading systems based purely on speed and allow a focus on fast yet more intelligent solutions. The challenges and opportunities of implementing an intelligent trading architecture were discussed at last week’s A-Team Group Intelligent Trading Summit in New York, where conference chair Pete…
Citihub Adds Zurich to Global Office Network
Citihub Consulting has opened a Zurich office in response to local demand for its IT advisory services. The office adds to established bases in London, New York, Hong Kong, Singapore and Toronto, and is part of the firm’s commitment to support clients in key financial centres around the world. The Zurich office is headed by…
Data Management Summit: A Keynote on Data Utilities
Data management utilities could cut the cost of data, ease the burden of in-house data management and provide a solution that will deliver data not only to meet the requirements of today’s regulations, but also those of emerging regulations. Presenting a keynote speech at this week’s A-Team Group Data Management Summit – which for the…
Intelligent Trading Summit: Tibco Keynote Outlines Need to Trade Faster and Smarter
With many trading firms approaching the physical limits of low-latency technology, the time has come to look at improving other areas of the trading process to more effectively and intelligently operate in the electronic marketplace. Speaking at last week’s A-Team Group Intelligent Trading Summit (formerly the Low Latency Summit) in New York, Alessandro Petroni, senior…
Infront Targets ‘Over-Dimensioned’ Premium Desktops with Modern, Competitively Priced Market Data Terminal
Infront, the leading provider of real-time market data, news and analytics, has released a major upgrade to its market data terminal offering. The upgrade makes the performance, coverage and ease of use associated with modern premium market data terminals available at highly competitive rates, with pricing based on usage rather than over-dimensioned packages. The new…
Talking Intelligent Trading with Andrew Delaney: It’s Time to Buy and Build
As we put the last-minute touches on our agenda for next week’s Intelligent Trading Summit in New York – register here if you haven’t already – we continue to canvass the marketplace on what makes a trading platform intelligent. Part of the story, we are finding, is in approach to design. And the message we…
Tech Matters with Pete Harris: Risk and Reward in An Open Source World
I just read the latest from Michael Lewis, and while I can’t say I’m fully in agreement with regard to his “rigged market” position, I did find Flash Boys to be a pretty good basic description of high frequency trading and the technologies that underpin it. It was not, however, the main HFT focus that…
Talking Intelligent Trading with Andrew Delaney: The Convergence Continues
More evidence this week that market practitioners are embracing intelligence in trading with news that a major global investment bank has implemented a risk and data management platform that appears to make a significant step toward the Holy Grail of incorporating enterprise analytics into the pre-trade decision-making process. This is precisely the kind of thing…
Johannesburg Stock Exchange Selects Cinnober to Support Strategy for Growth
The Johannesburg Stock Exchange’s (JSE) partnership with Cinnober to develop a multi-asset clearing platform is expected to deliver not only real-time clearing, but also overall trading improvements and greater market certainty. The contract between Cinnober and the JSE to build a real-time integrated clearing platform initially handling six asset classes was signed last week. Implementation…