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Cisco and Friends Publish Real World Latency Statistics for Nexus 3548 Switch
Cisco Systems has teamed with a group of market data feed handler, latency management and integration vendors to produce an early set of real world latency statistics for its recently introduced Nexus 3548 switch. Apart from Cisco, the latency testing – which comprised a proof-of-concept implementation to show end-to-end latency validated with real-time market data…
TraFXpure Plans Random Latency FX Trading
Nope, the date is not April 1, though I had to double check. TraFXpure, a planned spot market for foreign exchange, has begun testing for an early 2013 go live, exercising a matching engine that features random latency execution. To be exact, the matching engine’s latency is not random, but orders submitted to it will be…
Digital Reasoning, Tableau, Cloudera Focus Unstructured Data Analytics on Financial Markets
Partnering with Tableau Software for data visualisation, and leveraging Cloudera’s Hadoop distribution for storage, Digitial Reasoning is applying its Synthesys unstructured data analytics platform at financial markets applications. Synthesys takes structured and unstructured text as input and then uses named entity recognition, understanding of time and geographic references, combined with patented relationship analysis, to develop…
Capco Proposes the Creation of a Data Culture to Advance Data Management
Financial firms are falling short on data management issues such as calculating the true cost of data, identifying the operational cost savings of improved data management and embracing social media data, but according to research by consultancy Capco, these issues can be resolved with a cross-organisational and practical approach to data management and the development…
Exegy Delivers Data Tone in Mahwah and Aurora
Exegy has made its Data Tone service, providing low-latency market data, available at NYSE Euronext’s Mahwah, NJ data centre, and at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange’s data centre in Aurora, Il. Data Tone provides low cost feeds as a service, leveraging Exegy’s ticker plant. At Mahwah, Exegy is offering access to NYSE data feeds, and in…
Brits Say HFT Does Not Lead to Volatility
A report published by the U.K. government says that there is no evidence that high frequency trading leads to increased volatility, which is a key driver of market data rates. The report – The Future of Computer Trading in Financial Markets – by the U.K. government’s Office for Science – which is not a regulator…
Telx Lowers Latency to NYSE Mahwah
Proximity data centre operator Telx is tapping into new fibre routes from Cross River Fiber to lower latency to NYSE Euronext’s Mahwah, NJ data centre. Cross River’s new fibre runs directly through Clifton, NJ where Telx operates its existing NJR2 data centre, with NJR3 under construction. The fibre then runs on to Secaucus, NJ (where…
Redline and Intel Highlight Proposed STAC-T1 “Tick to Trade” Benchmark
Redline Trading Solutions and Intel are highlighting performance benchmarks for the latest versions of Redline’s ticker plant and execution gateway software, conducted using the proposed STAC-T1 test harness designed to measure “Tick to Trade” latency. STAC-T1 – as administered along with other benchmarks by the Securities Technology Analysis Center – measures the latency of a…
Q&A: October’s Low Down on Latency with Pete Harris
More questions from the IntelligentTradingTechnology.com community e-mail bag, with some thoughts from me. Q: Profits are down at HFT firms, and regulation of them looks to be on the increase. What does than mean for low-latency technology spend? A: I am sure there will be an impact, but I also expect investment in low latency…
Q&A: Rich Brown of Thomson Reuters Takes The Pulse of Machine Readable News, Social Media and Sentiment
As pointed to in our recent coverage, machine readable news is expanding its asset scope and geographical delivery. A good time, then, for IntelligentTradingTechnology.com to get an inside view on the topic from Rich Brown, head of Elektron Analytics at Thomson Reuters. Q: What’s your assessment on the current state of play re. trading firms…