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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…
Endace “To Review Options” After Revenue Hit
In a trading update issued on Monday, networking and latency monitoring specialist Endace said that expected full year revenues would fall short of estimates by 10% and that it had appointed Deutsche Bank to “review options for the future.” That usually means a company is open to being – or looking to be – acquired….
London Low-Latency Summit Just One Week Away
With just a week to go before the London Low-Latency Summit, I thought it was the right time to preview what the agenda will bring. Space at the new venue – the America Square Conference Centre – is limited but there’s room for a few more delegates, so be sure to register today. Now, with…
XSP Extends Market Reach of Automated Corporate Actions Solution
XSP is extending the market reach of its automated corporate actions solution through a deal with technology services provider Broadridge Financial Solutions and a cloud-based version of its software. Under the terms of the Broadridge deal, Broadridge will offer XSP v5 as an integral element of its hosted applications service provider platform, as a service…
Societe Generale Securities Services Supports Emergence Seed Capital Fund
Emergence, the first seed capital fund introduced in France with support from Paris Europlace, has selected Societe Generale Securities Services (SGSS) to provide valuation and trustee services to NewAlpha Asset Management, the fund’s financial manager and selector of small asset managers that will form the fund. Emergence was created on January 19 as an initiative…
Q&A: Sumerian’s Bryan Clark on Big Data Analytics and Operational IT
For Sumerian, the focus is not so much on capturing and storing big data, but much more on analysing it to provide insight into how IT systems – especially for electronic trading – are working, how they might perform under load and how to tune them to make them both high performance and efficient. We…
Q&A: Lee Staines of Celoxica on Low-Latency Beyond Equities
Celoxica recently extended its hardware accelerated data feed and execution platform to include foreign exchange and fixed income markets. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com caught up with president Lee Staines to find out what’s driving the development. Q: Celoxica has added support for foreign exchange and fixed income to its market data and trade execution technology. What are the…
Increasing Trade Performance: A Quest for Lower Latency, or Simply Improved Monitoring?
Performance. We all grow up assessed for it. But in today’s trading environment, how can organisations balance increased regulatory requirements and maximise the efficiency of their core trading functions? Less operational resources means firms are challenged with creating more sophisticated business logic that differentiates them from the competition in the never ending quest for lower…
Q&A: Interactive Data’s Scott Caudell on Co-Lo and Managed Services
Managed service delivery in the low-latency world is an increasing focus as trading firms begin to measure ROI for their IT investments. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com spoke to Scott Caudell, vice president, IT Infrastructure, at Interactive Data, about its 7ticks business, and where it fits in. Q: To begin with, can you outline what the Interactive Data 7ticks…
Latency in Electronic Trading
With the majority of financial products trading electronically, latency tops the agenda for proprietary traders and market-makers, regardless of asset class. Latency has also become a major preoccupation for trading desks concerned with best execution compliance. 94% of sell-side firms and 80% of hedge funds currently single out “speed of execution” as the most important…