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Xenomorph Adds Heatmaps, Charting to TimeScape
Xenomorph has released new Data Analysis and QL+ Explorer add-ins for it TimeScape Workbench data management platform, enhancing its reporting and charting capabilities and introducing new interactive heatmaps for visual data validation and decision support. Through the enhancements, users will be able to configure default charts and analytical functions to be applied to each asset…
Exegy Intoduces Journal and Replay For Tick Data Analysis
Ticker plant vendor Exegy has released its Journal and Replay system, designed to allow regulators, compliance groups, quants, and technicians to have access to raw tick-by tick data, time stamped to the nanosecond. Journal and Replay allows customers to capture and recreate every trade, quote, order book price, update, halt, modify or cancel sent from…
Bouchard Rolls AlgoFast Event Driven Trading Platform
Chicago-based Bouchard Systems has unveiled its AlgoFast suite of execution software, focused on processing machine readable news feeds to drive trading decisions. In its first release, the software supports trading on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, with execution via Interactive Brokers. Founder Justin Bouchard – who comes with many years of cross-market trading experience – says…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…