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Opinion: The Evolution of Intelligent Trading
By Mike Powell, Managing Director, Enterprise, Thomson Reuters I was recently invited to take part in a panel at the Intelligent Trading Summit in London – a fascinating topic exploring the current and future state of trading, industry trends, and supporting technology and architecture. Alongside Richard Bell, Fixed Income eTrading Latency, Performance & Big Data…
Azul Systems Solves Java Warm-up Problem and Plans More Java Improvements
Azul Systems has added a solution to the warm-up problem associated with Java applications to its Zing Java virtual machine and there is more to come as the Java specialist turns its attention to improving Java libraries, making Hadoop more efficient and optimising Zing for cloud deployments. The company’s solution to the Java warm-up problem,…
Intelligent Trading Summit: Managed Services and Cloud Solutions Gain Traction in Capital Markets
Managed services and cloud solutions are gaining traction in capital markets, not only because they reduce costs, but also because they offer opportunities to test innovative ideas without the need for capital expenditure. Moderating a panel discussion at last week’s A-Team Group Intelligent Trading Summit, Peter Farley, director at A-Team Group, asked the panellists to…
Intelligent Trading Summit: Leveraging Operational Analytics
Operational analytics are beginning to appear in trading workflows with the aim of mimicking the success of latency measurement and its ability to optimise trading connections for business advantage, but are operational analytics a step too far or can they, too, deliver benefits? These questions and more were raised during an expert panel session at…
Talking Intelligent Trading with Peter Farley: A Hectic Baptism
What a great way to get involved with a new company. After only a few weeks on board with The A-Team Group it was all systems go for our two flagship events in London last week, where we were able to showcase the range of industry debate around the market dynamics driving pre- and post-trade…
Intelligent Trading Summit: Making the Most of Big Data
Big Data is growing in both volume and adoption, but it needs to be clean, synchronised, analysed and used sensibly in tackling business problems if it is to reach its full potential in the trading environment. Discussing Big Data for algo development and analytics at last week’s A-Team Group Intelligent Trading Summit, Peter Farley, director…
Intelligent Trading Summit: Implementing an Intelligent Trading Architecture
The concept of intelligent trading is gaining momentum as trading firms acknowledge that competitive advantage is no longer only about speed, but also about a flexible and scalable architecture that can handle Big Data and analytics on the fly using technologies such as in-memory data and complex event processing. The technology elements and people skills…
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: That Was the Week that Was
I’m sure I’ve used that headline before but it seems apt: two conferences in one week, plus a data management training session in conjunction with our friends at EDM Works and JWG. Yes, last week was quite a week. For those of you that attended, I’m sure you’ll agree that Thursday’s Data Management Summit was…
Data Management Summit: Regulation and Risk Prompt Tactical Approaches to Change
Regulation and risk are driving data management change programmes in many financial firms, but the approach is tactical rather than strategic, leaving the ultimate goal of consistent global data that could avert another crisis some way off. These issues were a focus at last week’s A-Team Group Data Management Summit, where a panel of experts…
Data Management Summit: Arguing the Case for Reference Data Utilities
Reference data utilities offer financial firms cost effective and flexible data management, improved data quality and the potential to standardise enterprise data. Arguing the case for data utilities as the only way forward for data management, Adam Cottingham, vice president of data management services at SmartStream, detailed their benefits in a keynote presentation at last…