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Win $10,000 of Ciara Kit at A-Team’s Intelligent Trading Summit
Ciara Technologies always strived to conquer different markets, and diversify its offering without losing sight of its customers’ needs. Although this path can be more complex than others, it has led us constantly to address new customer challenges, and pushed us to maintain high levels of competency. At Ciara, we believe that performance is the…
Opinion: Hybrid Algorithm Development Environments for Intelligent Trading
By Jamie Oschefski, Head of Accounts and Strategic Partnerships, Quantica Trading It is becoming clear the latency arms race is quickly becoming a theme of the past. The fastest microwave networks between Aurora, Ill., and Carteret, NJ, is currently clocked at about 4.14ms (one-way), where the theoretical minimum is 3.95ms based on the speed of…
Tech Matters with Pete Harris: AWS Sharpens Analytics and Big Data Chops
Amazon’s AWS (for Amazon Web Services) cloud platform has been around for a few years now – it was launched in 2006 by the online retailer then looking to make use of its spare IT capacity – and has been increasingly used by financial markets players looking for less expensive compute and storage resource. Recently,…
Talking Intelligent Trading with Andrew Delaney: Three Keynotes You Need to Hear
This week, we’ve been banging on about the lineup for our inaugural Intelligent Trading Summit in London next Tuesday, offering a bit of a taster of what to expect from the day’s panel discussions. It’s worth pointing out, though, that we’ve also managed to line up some great keynote presentations from industry people we have…
Perseus Telecom Acquires Microwave Connectivity Provider TLV Networks
Perseus Telecom, a privately held provider of high speed global connectivity, has acquired TLV Networks and its ultra-low latency microwave connectivity between CME’s Aurora data centre and ICE at Equinix’s 350 Cermak Road data centre in Chicago. The all cash transaction completes today and transfers TLV Networks’ hardware, spectrum, design and operational service to Perseus,…
Talking Intelligent Trading with Andrew Delaney: ITS – An Architecture for Intelligent Trading
With just a week away from our inaugural Intelligent Trading Summit at London’s America Square conference centre – yes, that’s next Tuesday, March 4 so register to attend here if you haven’t already done so – I thought it would be useful to take a look at what’s in store. So here’s how we plan…
Can Operational Analytics & Performance Measurement Boost Trading Returns?
Latency measurement is an established practice that has been used with great success to optimize trading connections for business advantage, but will operational analytics become the next big business differentiator? A panel of industry experts at our A-Team Group Intelligent Trading Summit on March 4 in London will now discuss whether this latest development is…
Big Data Technology & Tools – Can They Deliver the Elusive Alpha?
One of the hottest topics in the industry right now is whether the ability to leverage Big Data in the trading environment, with the use of more sophisticated analytics, will deliver real competitive advantage. Some say the jury is still out, but our panel of leading experts at next week’s A-Team Group Intelligent Trading Summit…
Are Managed Services & Cloud Finally Going to Deliver the Promised Efficiency Benefits?
Has the industry finally reached a cost tipping-point where we will see more wholesale adoption of managed services and cloud capabilities, or are other benefits now outweighing pure cost considerations? Our panel of industry experts will discuss the speed at which these mainly cost-driven initiatives are now getting traction at the A-Team Group Intelligent Trading…
Bank Muddles Over EMIR Compliance Could See Strategic Acceptance of New IT Business Models
As many as half of Europe’s financial institutions will have been “caught on the hop” and are now having to catch up after the latest deadline for complying with the European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR) came into force last week, according to a leading industry observer. Elizabeth Goodchild, a senior consultant with Rules Financial, said…