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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…
Brennan’s Back – To Head Elektron Platform
Brennan Carley is back at Reuters, albeit it’s now Thomson Reuters and no doubt it has changed a bit since he was last there in a strategy role, around 1999/2000. His new job is as global head of the Elektron platform, the company’s low-latency managed hosting/co-location business. Since his first stint at the company, Carley…
Rainier Investment Management Selects Charles River as Data Source
Rainier Investment Management is delivering improved and more timely data to its portfolio managers and traders as a result of switching its data source from an incumbent supplier to the Charles River data service and upgrading its implementation of the Charles River investment management solution (IMS). The employee owned, Seattle-based investment bank went live with…
Q&A: Brand Hunt of 60East on Awesome Code and Fast Messaging
When one thinks of low-latency messaging, it’s companies like Tibco, Informatica, Solace that come to mind. But also in the mix is the stealthy 60East Technologies, about to release its latest version. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com got the scoop from co-founder Brand Hunt. Q: So when and how did 60East Technologies get started, where is it today, and…
Bloomberg Opens Up Market Data Interfaces
As anticipated, Bloomberg is opening up the interface via which it provides market data to other market data and application vendors, on a free-use basis. It’s part of the vendor’s Open Market Data Initiative, which also extends to market data symbology, as previously announced. The interface in play is BLPAPI, which is already widely used…
Intel Expands Networking Clout with QLogic Buy … But What Impact on Trading Systems?
Intel’s planned acquisition of QLogic’s InfiniBand business – announced last week – further advances its general ‘world domination’ plans in networking. And while its aspirations go way beyond low-latency trading, expect a trickle down that will over time impact how automated trading systems are implemented. QLogic’s InfiniBand offerings – shortly to be owned by Intel…
Q&A: Certichron’s Tim Costello on Why It’s Important to Know the Time!
In low-latency electronic trading, and especially in an increasingly regulated world, being able to document transactions and especially exactly when they happen – in a way that is provable when disputes arise – could be crucial. But who has the correct time? That would be Certichron, says its director of sales Tim Costello, below in…
Lime Brokerage Rolls LimeDirect Pre-Trade Risk; Minimises Latency, Shuns FPGA Technology
Lime Brokerage has rolled out its LimeDirect pre-trade risk service – providing compliance for SEC rule 15c3-5 while adding minimal latency. But unlike competitive services, the offering – which Lime officials say is based on an “innovative blend of hardware and software” – does not leverage FPGA technology, because Lime technologists believe it is too…