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Collaborating To Make FIX Go Fastest
It used to be that when FIX protocol communication was needed, a trading firm would simply buy an off-the-shelf gateway/engine, install it and treat it as a black box, much like a network router. But with the advent of multi-asset class automated trading – including algo and HFT – firms are looking to optimise the…
Q&A: Pierre Feligioni of QuantHouse on Why FPGAs Are The Next Step
QuantHouse is an established player in the low-latency datafeed handling business, but only very recently launched a hardware accelerated solution. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com asked the vendor’s co-founder and COO Pierre Feligioni to explain the move, and provide some more technical detail. Q: QuantBOX is your first offering to make use of hardware acceleration. With the continuing performance…
Options IT Deploys Virtual Exchange from FIN
Managed services provider Options IT has gone live with an order matching service from Fundamental Interactions, with two initial customers – a broker/dealer and an Alternative Trading System – with early trade flow of around 60 million shares per day. Deployed on the Options PIPE managed infrastructure – which offers co-located infrastructure, access to market…
Summit Compute Panel – Mantara’s Arnold on Leveraging Technology
Concluding our coverage of last month’s Low-Latency Summit in New York City, the compute panel allowed Mantara chief architect David Arnold to discuss how the trading application vendor leverages technologies to reduce latency. Mantara provides a platform for market data delivery, order routing and pre-trade risk, with customers requiring performance across the latency spectrum. As…
Toyota Tsusho Metals Deploys IPC’s Unigy Trading Platform in Japan
IPC Systems Inc., a leading provider of voice and electronic trading communications solutions to the world’s top financial services firms, today announced the successful, live implementation of Unigy, its revolutionary new unified trading communications platform, at Toyota Tsusho Metals Ltd (TTM), Branch in Nagoya Japan, a company operating in futures and options trading on the…
DataFlux Targets Firms’ Semantics with New Data Management Platform
DataFlux’s release of version 2.2 of its DataFlux Data Management Platform introduces its so-called Business Data Network, a framework that allows data managers to set semantic terms across business areas. By adopting a common set of terms for securities, counterparties and activities, BDN can help institutions take a significant step toward a robust approach to…
IPC Systems Names Industry Veteran Peter Brucia as Global Head of Data Sales
IPC Systems, Inc., a leading provider of trading communications solutions to the world’s top financial services firms, today announced the appointment of Peter Brucia to Vice President of Sales, focused on increasing data services worldwide. In this newly created position, Brucia is responsible for developing and managing strategic relationships with global enterprises. He will also…
Being Smart About Being Fast – One Speed Does Not Fit All
As the trading landscape has undergone significant changes over the last several years, financial institutions have developed an insatiable need for low latency. Infrastructures that once had to handle a maximum of 50 trades per second, now must process thousands – an increase of more than 1,900%. However, aiming to gain the lowest latency possible…
Q&A: Mat Young of Fusion-io on Making Flash Fast
Fusion-io is about high performance Flash – aka NAND – storage, though – as Mat Young, EMEA senior director at the company points out – it would be wrong to view it as a SSD player. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com asked him to explain … Q: Can you begin by describing what Fusion-io does? What are your products?…
Latest Release of DataFlux Data Management Platform Expands Support for MDM and Data Governance
DataFlux, a leading provider of data management solutions, today announced the general availability of the DataFlux Data Management Platform 2.2, a single platform for data management, data quality and data integration. The product also provides enhanced master data management (MDM) capabilities and adds features to allow business analysts and data stewards to initiate and manage…