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Taking Stock – The True Cost of Data
By David Renn, Principal Consultant, Citisoft The size of the data spend in financial services is astounding, but even more incredible is the lack of transparency and knowledge around these costs. Citisoft believes that the true cost of ownership of data is often unknown, inaccurate or poorly calculated. At a time when regulatory, client due…
S&P Capital IQ Invests to Bolster Valuation and Pricing Services
S&P Capital IQ has upgraded its fixed income transparency solution by reconfiguring and adding content and functionality to the platform behind its Valuation and Data portal. The upgraded service is intended to help users improve risk management while meeting accounting and regulatory requirements for independent and transparent valuations. The enhanced service was rolled out to…
Q&A – From Yesterday’s London Low-Latency Summit
Industry experts in the morning panels at yesterday’s Low-Latency Summit in London responded to a number of questions posed by moderator Pete Harris of IntelligentTradingTechnology.com. Here is some of the wisdom shared … Q: Trading firms want to be smarter, leveraging technology to be wiser with respect to their trading strategies. Do you agree? Where…
Arista Debuts Application Switch; Embeds FPGAs Into Network for Lowest Latency
Sun Microsystems might have coined the the slogan “The Network Is The Computer” but it is Arista Networks that is today delivering on the concept with its first Application Switch, which embeds FPGA processing into a switch so that business logic can really be run in the networking fabric itself with lowest-latency data access. With…
Bats Apologises for System Glitch; Confirms Opening of Own Symbol Was Cause
Bats Global Markets sent a message to its members from CEO Joe Ratterman on Sunday night, noting: “Bats experienced a serious technical failure Friday morning and I want to apologise for not measuring up to the level of excellence that you have come to expect from us. You undoubtedly have heard that we experienced a…
Andrew’s Blog – It’s All About Risk (Data)
This week sees the release of an industry briefing we prepared for Sybase entitled ‘Managing Risk Data in the Siloed Enterprise’. I’ll be presenting the key findings at an event in London on Tuesday, where I’ll be joined by a group of risk managers and data architects – as well as Sybase’s Stuart Grant, IDC…
Coping with the Need for Speed
The need for fast trading is nothing new. The origins of low latency trading are traced to the arbitrage desks of the 1990s, where speed and firepower were directly used to ‘pick off’ mispriced products. It wasn’t long before other markets caught on. Equity markets require low latency because of the widespread use of algorithms…
Bats Glitch Caused by Own IPO?
It looks like the trading problem earlier today at Bats Global Markets was caused by commencement in trading of its own shares following its IPO. In a “Post-Mortem” message sent to its members, the exchange said that: “a single matching engine handling symbol range A-BFZZZ encountered a software bug related to IPO auctions which rendered…
Hardware Acceleration Targets FX HFT
Recent announcements by both Celoxica and Redline Trading Solutions point to increasingly latency-sensitive high frequency trading strategies being deployed in the foreign exchange markets. To date, hardware acceleration has been focused on equities, futures and options trading. Celoxica has in fact added support not only for FX but also fixed income markets to its Generalized…
Q&A: Mohammad Darwish of AdvancedIO on FPGA Directions
The electronic trading marketplace has been an early adopter of FPGA technology, most often to accelerate I/O and basic feed handling. Now, firms are looking to use FPGAs for more complex business logic. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com spoke to Mohammad Darwish, president and CEO of AdvancedIO Systems, about this trend. Q: Firstly, let’s find out some more about…