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Q&A: Art Novikov on the Sweet Spot of High Performance Market Data Processing
Building systems for low-latency market data integration with trading systems requires a rare combination of technology skills and financial markets understanding. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com talked to Art Novikov, founder of Trading Physics, which leverages that combination for its customers – whether they be vendors or market participants. Q: First off, can you explain what Trading Physics does,…
Nanosecond Market Data Feeds – FPGA Centric vs. FPGA Accelerated Designs
The “Microburst” Problem Trading architects face the constant challenge of lowering latency. Today, this challenge is focused on achieving nanosecond speeds in a deterministic way, even during periods of high market activity, so called ‘microbursts’. In fast moving ‘bursty’ markets, commodity CPUs are no longer capable of offering the lowest latency or tolerating microbursts. Memory…
Datacom Taps Formby, Releases Matrix Switch for Co-Lo
Datacom Systems – a vendor of network taps and matrix switches – has appointed Kevin Formby as its new president and CEO. Formby joins from packet capture/latency monitoring specialist Endace, and as such brings with him much experience of the financial markets vertical in general, and low-latency infrastructure in particular. On the heels of Formby’s on-boarding,…
Q&A: Sébastien Jaouen of Orange Business Services on MiFID II, Electronic Trading and Latency
We all know that regulation drives much of the innovation in electronic trading and the technology that addresses it. In Europe, the MiFID II initiative looks set to shake up the electronic world for new asset classes, and that’s going to feed through to data volumes and latency. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com asked Sébastien Jaouen, head of trading…
PolarLake Proposes SOA and Semantics for Big Data Management
PolarLake has responded to market – and regulator – demand for a real-time consolidated view of trade, position, reference and client data that can inform operational efficiency, risk management and compliance with a virtualised data warehouse solution based on service-oriented architecture (SOA) and semantic technologies. The virtualised data warehouse plays into not only risk and…
Direct Edge Taps Xignite for Historical Data Cloud
Stock exchange Direct Edge has launched EdgeBook Cloud, an on-demand service providing depth-of-book historical trade and quote data from its EDGA and EDGX markets. The data is delivered via Xignite’s cloud-based infrastructure, and is targeted at market analysis, back-testing, and compliance applications. There are three delivery options: “Our goal is to make EdgeBook Cloud the…
Exchange Co-Lo Update: CME, Nasdaq
The last week or so has seen significant action in the world of exchange co-location – a space (excuse the pun) that as a whole is hotter than ever – with happenings at CME Group and Nasdaq OMX. The news – though there was no actual news release – from CME Group was the planned…
Q&A: Alice Botis of Fidessa on Latam Trading – Opportunities and Challenges
Electronic trading in Latin America continues to be a hot subject, with action moving beyond Brazil to other countries. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com spoke to Fidessa’s head of business development for the region, Alice Botis, to get an update, and a handle on low-latency initiatives in the marketplace. Q: Can you start by some scene setting – where…
Solarflare Leverages FPGAs for ApplicationOnload Engine
Solarflare Communications has announced its ApplicationOnload Engine (AOE) – combining 10gE networking with FPGA technology that allows trading applications to run fully on a network card, for the lowest latency. Planned to ship in Q2, AOE is Solarflare’s response to wide customer demand, says CEO Russell Stern. Already well established in financial markets firms with…
Vendor Consortium Pushes Reference Stack for High Performance Trading; Publishes Benchmarks for FIX Messaging
Following on from an announcement at the end of last year, a consortium of IT vendors has published a white paper outlining a reference stack for high performance trading applications, and has documented a set of benchmarks conducted on commercial and open source FIX engines to demonstrate different performance characteristics of the stack. As it…