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GBST Global Broker Services Launches Syn~2
GBST, the global financial services technology provider, announces the launch of Syn~2, the new suite of products which provide multi-asset, multi-market settlement solutions to capital markets. The Syn~2 offering provides enhanced usability to make it easier for management to control the trading process and monitor progress on an ongoing basis across markets. The product range,…
Dell Touts Performance of its TIBCO FTL Stack
The low-latency arms race continues … Dell used SIFMA to promote the performance of its servers running TIBCO’s latest FTL (Faster Than Light) messaging middleware. The bottom line: 2.5 million messages/second processed with a mean latency of 13 microseconds. At the show, Dell execs pointed to a just-released STAC-M2 benchmark report, only the second to…
SIFMA 2011 – Booth 1101 – What to Expect
Today is the first day of the annual SIFMA show. And each year since it’s been run at the Hilton, Booth 1101 is the very first one that punters encounter following registration. So in some respects, it sets the tone for the entire trade show, and perhaps what is hot in the financial technology marketplace….
Q&A: Brennan Carley of Spread Networks on New Services for New Customers
is rolling another connectivity service between Chicago and the NYC metro area – this time one that addresses the market that does not need the lowest latency, and which is more price sensitive. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com caught up with the company’s senior vice president of product marketing Brennan Carley to discuss the new service, the different requirements…
STAC Points to Everest Boost
Via a report sponsored by data feed handler specialists SR Labs, the benchmarkers at STAC have just announced data for initial tests run on Intel’s recently-introduced Everest chip. Compared to Intel’s standard Westmere chip, one data point suggests a 22% reduction in mean latency. Everest – or Intel’s Xeon X5698 – is a dual core…
Translation Fears Mount Over KIID Documents
Legal, translation and reporting specialists have voiced fears over the burden for fund promoters under UCITS IV. Among the important legal, workflow and production challenges in meeting the KIID (Key Investor Information Documents) requirements to be implemented in July, fund managers that wish to ‘passport’ UCITS funds into other EU states will have to translate…
Reliance on Data Vendors, Cost and Poor Data Quality Remain Hurdles to Transparency, Says City of London Paper on MiFID
As the MiFID review process rumbles on ahead of a potential sequel, more and more attention is being directed towards the data quality issues underlying the barriers to post-trade market transparency. On this note, the City of London’s recently published report into the impacts of MiFID (handily titled “Understanding the Impacts of MiFID”) indicates that…
NYSE Technologies Announces Community Platform; IaaS Play for Capital Markets
With the announcement today of its Capital Markets Community Platform, NYSE Technologies is bringing cloud computing into the world of electronic trading and low latency. Well, kind of. Already an established provider of hosted, managed services, such as its Superfeed data feed, and its Risk Management Gateway for pre-trade risk controls, the vendor – a…
Q&A: Todd Watkins of NYSE Technologies on Managing Options Data
Anyone who is familiar with the OPRA option data feed and associated message rates understands the challenges of dealing with options market data. NYSE Technologies has just introduced its Filtered Options Feed, designed to address some of those challenges. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com talked to Todd Watkins, product manager at the data and trading technology vendor, to find…
Does the European Commission’s Ruling on S&P Regarding ISIN Pricing go Far Enough?
Some corners of the industry are not convinced that the European Commission’s recent ruling on Standard & Poor’s ISIN pricing commitments goes far enough, as evidenced by comments made by a number of industry associations including the European Fund and Asset Management Association (EFAMA) and the UK-based Information Provider User Group (IPUG) last week. It…