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Ralf’s Role at Reuters
OK, that should be Thomson Reuters, but the historical name just fitted the headline better, and I’m a bit of a poet. I’m referring to Ralf Roth, who recently joined TR from Deutsche Bank, as we noted here. And we also said that we were intrigued by his ‘Elektron Transactions’ job title and would be…
NYSE Technologies Looks to Open Source Data APIs; Wants Competitors To Partner
NYSE Technologies is planning to open source its messaging APIs, and hopes to attract other market participants – and competing data providers – to adopt them. The plan was outlined by Tony McManus, head of Enterprise Software at the exchange’s technology unit, speaking at a recent FutureDATA event in London. The APIs in question are…
IOSCO’s Commodities Market Proposals Highlight Need for Internationally Consistent Data Standards and Classifications
In addition to its recent trade repositories paper, the International Organisation of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) has published a paper urging regulators to consider bolstering their oversight of the commodities markets, which includes recommendations to introduce international data standards and classification schemes. As part of its series of proposals to improve post-trade surveillance methods, it suggests…
Q&A: Bruce Tolley of Solarflare Communications on Network Performance and Precision Timing
In ultra low-latency trading systems, the application to network interface is one cause of significant latency and jitter. Companies like Solarflare have advanced network adaptors designed to overcome those issues. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com got the scoop from Solarflare’s vice president of solutions Bruce Tolley. Q: Firstly, by way of introduction, what are your main products that are…
Oracle’s Kumar Talks up a Consolidated Approach to Finance and Risk Data, Exadata’s Capabilities
Oracle has long been championing the capabilities of its Exadata Database Machine, which forms the foundation of a number of its other offerings such as the Financial Services Data Warehouse that was launched in January this year. Senthil Kumar, group vice president and head of global business development for financial services at Oracle, speaks to Reference…
Exclusive: A Preview of Benchmarks for Tibco’s FTL 1.1
Las Vegas is the destination this week for many Tibco users attending its annual Tucon event. The highlight for many might well be a show by 90s rockers Train at the big party on Wednesday night. But for all of us in the low-latency world, the focus will be on Tuesday’s keynote, when benchmarks for…
Q&A: Redline’s Mark Skalabrin on Goldman, and Why Cell is Better!
It’s not often one hears about vendor wins at publicity-shy Goldman Sachs, so it was intriguing to learn how they’re making use of hardware acceleration. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com caught up with Mark Skalabrin, CEO of Redline Trading Solutions, to find out more about the deployment, and why Cell processors rather then FPGAs are in vogue at Redline….
India Wins Shine Light on McObject’s eXtremeDB
In-memory database vendor McObject is new to me, though recent Indian customer press releases – here and here – piqued my interest. It seems the company has been around for a good few years, has around 300 customers, including a few in the financial markets, and has built some interesting technology, called eXtremeDB. The secret…
Connectivity in South America
With a limited exposure to the current financial crisis, Latin America, and Brazil in particular, are both attractive markets for investors who are willing to diversify their exposure and explore new destinations with the potential to generate high returns. Trading infrastructure and technology has also largely benefited from new investments over the last few years,…
Opinion: MiFIR – Flat-Packed Furniture Without the Instructions?
By Matthew Coupe, director of sales and marketing, Redkite Financial Markets The proposed Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation (MiFIR) has left me questioning what this piece of European regulation is actually going to achieve. Will the final legislation give the financial industry a set of clear-cut rules to follow and be accountable to? Or is…