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Q&A: Perseus Telecom’s Jock Percy on Fast Fibre and Formula 1
Low-latency connectivity continues to be an area of spend for most trading firms, and tapping into far markets is one of the focuses. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com caught up with Jock Percy, CEO of Perseus Telecom, to get some insight into the action. Q: Let’s start with an update on the transatlantic link – QuanTA. How’s it going?…
McObject, MemSQL Continue Focus on In-Memory
There’s nothing that new about in-memory databases, but with advances in hardware behind them, their use within low-latency applications is drawing increasing interest. Recent news from McObject and MemSQL underscores the trend. McObject has released the eXtremeDB Financial Edition, which adds some financial markets functionality to its existing small footprint in-memory database. The key additions…
ANNA Pitches National Numbering Agencies as LEI Local Operating Units
The Association of National Numbering Agencies (ANNA) is back in the game and vying for a place in the development of the global legal entity identifier system proposed by the Financial Stability Board (FSB) and approved by the G20 global summit in Mexico last month. An ANNA general meeting in London last month deemed the…
Q&A: July’s Low Down on Latency with Pete Harris
Happy Insurrection Day! Yep, I am a Brit … and so I am working today while most of the low-latency community is having a slow day instead. It seemed a good time to kick off a new monthly series where I get to give some opinions and insight into the world of low latency, and…
Stop Press: S&P Capital IQ Swoops on CMA for European Valuations Data
S&P Capital IQ has struck again, continuing its buying spree with the purchase of London-based Credit Market Analysis Ltd., the valuations data subsidiary of CME Group. The acquisition plugs a gap in S&P Capital IQ’s valuations coverage, which will now include CMA’s speciality areas of structured finance and over-the-counter derivatives pricing. S&P Capital IQ’s traditional…
MapR Betas Hadoop on Google’s New IaaS Cloud
Hadoop distributor MapR Technologies has begun a private beta program for its offering running on the Google Compute Engine, that company’s recently announced (still in beta itself) Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) initiative. At the announcement of GCE – which provides on-demand Linux-based compute nodes, with storage options – MapR demonstrated the integration, completing a one terabyte TeraSort…
Vertex Analytics Offers Hosted Time Series Data, CEP
Chicago-based Vertex Analytics has unveiled ECHO, combining realtime and historic futures tick data with complex event processing (CEP) technology, delivered on either a client-installed or hosted service. Initially, ECHO is offering data from the Chicago exchanges – the CME and CBOT – as well as from NYMEX and the IntercontinentalExchange, with history back to 2010,…
Windy Apple Seeks Customers for NYC-Chicago Microwave Link
Windy Apple Technologies has emerged from stealth mode and is looking to sign up customers for its microwave service linking New York City to Chicago. According to executives attending the HFT World conference in Chicago, the service provides a round trip latency of nine milliseconds. The company has been in existence since 2009 and actually…
Q&A: NovaSparks’ Yves Charles on Doing It All on FPGAs!
FPGAs are growing up and spreading their wings. Only a couple of years ago, their use for market data handling was considered cutting edge, whereas now it’s almost mainstream. But what about using them for more complex functionality? IntelligentTradingTechnology.com spoke to NovaSparks CEO Yves Charles on pushing the complexity, and the challenges involved. Q: You…
One Trading Firm’s View of Low Latency
Presenting a session covering “Insights on Low Latency Execution Practices” at the HFT World conference in Chicago today, Alex Dziejma, principal and chief architect at Dymaxion Capital, pegged a definition of low latency trading as 20 microseconds “tick to trade.” Dziejma went on to suggest that the definition will shift to less than 10 microseconds…