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Bouchard Rolls AlgoFast Event Driven Trading Platform
Chicago-based Bouchard Systems has unveiled its AlgoFast suite of execution software, focused on processing machine readable news feeds to drive trading decisions. In its first release, the software supports trading on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, with execution via Interactive Brokers. Founder Justin Bouchard – who comes with many years of cross-market trading experience – says…
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: Live and Let Die
(With apologies to Paul McCartney and Ian Fleming) When you were young and your heart was an open book You used to say ‘live and let live’ (you know you did, etc.). But in this ever-changin’ world in which we’re livin’ Makes you give it a try: ‘Live and let die’ When I was young…
Q&A: Perseus Telecom’s Jock Percy on Fast Fibre and Formula 1
Low-latency connectivity continues to be an area of spend for most trading firms, and tapping into far markets is one of the focuses. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com caught up with Jock Percy, CEO of Perseus Telecom, to get some insight into the action. Q: Let’s start with an update on the transatlantic link – QuanTA. How’s it going?…
S&P Capital IQ Details Plans for Evaluated Pricing Post CMA Acquisition
S&P Capital IQ’s acquisition of Credit Market Analysis (CMA) from CME Group last week is bearing fruit, with some CMA technologies already integrated and used in S&P Capital IQ offerings such as its evaluated pricing service. As other services and technologies are integrated, CMA as a whole is expected to slot in alongside earlier acquisitions…
Abacus Launches StorageBurst Backup/Archiving
Abacus Group, which provides hosted IT services to hedge and private equity funds, has launched StorageBurst, an on-demand service that offers secure and redundant data storage off-site. Among other applications, StorageBurst helps funds store and back up tick level data to meet regulatory requirements. “It’s not uncommon for today’s hedge funds to deal with terabytes…
Financial Stability Board Calls for Private Sector Input to LEI Development
The Financial Stability Board (FSB) is calling for private sector experts around the world to join the Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) Private Sector Preparatory Group (PSPG) that will support the FSB LEI Implementation Group in introducing a global LEI system by March 2013. The deadline to submit nominations for the private sector group is July…
Aim Software Acquires ABI Informatic for Customer Base and Technology
Aim Software, vendor of the Gain reference data and risk management platform, has bought competitor ABI Informatic in a deal aimed primarily at acquiring its 25 European customers. Terms of the Jun 4 transaction – announced yesterday – which also gives Aim ABI’s Agio data management platform, weren’t disclosed. Vienna-based Aim’s CEO Martin Buchberger describes…
McObject, MemSQL Continue Focus on In-Memory
There’s nothing that new about in-memory databases, but with advances in hardware behind them, their use within low-latency applications is drawing increasing interest. Recent news from McObject and MemSQL underscores the trend. McObject has released the eXtremeDB Financial Edition, which adds some financial markets functionality to its existing small footprint in-memory database. The key additions…
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: Summer of LEI
Summer – such as it exists here in London – is typically characterised by a slowdown in activity in our marketplace. But we are bracing ourselves for a busy season as the world ponders just how the legal entity identifier (LEI) will look – and how to deal with it once it emerges. The pace…
ANNA Pitches National Numbering Agencies as LEI Local Operating Units
The Association of National Numbering Agencies (ANNA) is back in the game and vying for a place in the development of the global legal entity identifier system proposed by the Financial Stability Board (FSB) and approved by the G20 global summit in Mexico last month. An ANNA general meeting in London last month deemed the…