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Final Thoughts on Sifma, Past and Present
The first SIA (now Sifma) show I attended was in 1986. In some ways, it was quite different to the event last week, while in other ways it was pretty much the same. Entering the main show floor in 1986, one would be confronted by the big Quotron booth, with sales head George Levine in…
Sifma Rocked!
I’m referring to last week’s Sifma Technology Management Conference and Exhibit in NYC. True, the new name (the result of the SIA’s merger with the Bond Association) was a bit of a put off – many people suggested that Sifma sounded like some horrible strain of bird flu – but otherwise it’s been the best…
Life In The Fast Lane
I’m writing this posting from Montreal, Canada, where I just watched a thrilling Formula 1 grand prix, won by British rookie Lewis Hamilton. An amazing achievement in only his sixth F1 race. So what has F1 got to do with low latency? Well, for one, F1 laps are timed down to the millisecond, just as…
Perplexed By Percentages
A couple of weeks ago, together with Reuters, we conducted a survey of the marketplace to find out how well latency measurement is entrenched, and what users thought of datafeed providers and measurement tool vendors. And we asked them to comment on their current market data handling infrastructures too. One figure that came back –…
Swift AGM Approves New Regulators Category
Swift has received unanimous approval at its AGM for the addition of Financial Market Regulators as a new participant category on the network. Admitting regulators to Swift will make it easier for Swift members and users to meet regulatory transaction reporting obligations, while facilitating the development of global regulatory reporting solutions, Swift says. The approval…
Hedging your bets…
Hats off to analyst Aite Group this month for breathing new life into one of our favourite topics – STP. In its report on Capital Markets IT Spending Priorities in 2007, Aite identifies “a renewed emphasis on trade processing” and, while it does so with a degree of embarrassment, the message is clear. “While STP…
NNAs Set to Begin Testing IBEI Files
At the end of June, work will kick off between National Numbering Agencies (NNAs) including Telekurs, the London Stock Exchange and WM Datenservice to test the interoperability of international business entity identifier (IBEI) files. Though work has not been completed on the ISO standard IBEI, some NNAs are issuing their “own” IBEIs, to meet the…
Open Source Moving On Up …
I’m writing this blog from the Red Carpet Club at SFO … heading back to NYC in an hour. It’s been a great week out here in the Bay Area catching up with some old friends and making some new ones. Earlier in the week, I attended the Open Source Business Conference. One of the…
Old Friends, Familiar Faces, Some Surprises
I am posting this from the San Francisco Bay Area, and it just struck me that a couple of major players from these parts were recently the subject of posts on this portal. What’s more, they are companies that – despite being once huge on Wall Street – I hadn’t expected to be covering in…
Can FPGAs Overcome the FUD?
So, those party animals at Activ Financial have invited me to a little gathering tonight – at the Nasdaq MarketSite in Times Square – to formally launch ActivFeed MPU, their new hardware-accelerated feed handling software. It should be an great event, and I’m looking forward to finding out more about the black art of programming FPGAs (that’s…