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Q&A: IPC’s Joe Pickel on Network-As-A-Service
IPC Systems recently introduced Connexus, a financial markets extranet, for ready access to its trading ecosystem. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com spoke to the company’s vice president of network services product management Joe Pickel to find out more. Q: IPC has been in the network/connectivity business for quite some time, so what’s new and different about Connexus? A: We…
Can Emerging Markets Resist The Algo Trading Bug in 2012?
As algorithmic trading continues to evolve, it is my view that we will start to witness more firms using their systems to trade equities not only from the U.S. and Europe, but also from the Middle Eastern, Latin America and Asian markets. The latest announcement that Colt’s sister company KVH will be expanding its low-latency…
Roderick Manzie Joins 3d Innovations as COO to Further the Data Management Consultancy’s Growth
3d Innovations, the data management consultancy specialising in market, reference and derived/computational data,today announced the appointment of Roderick Manzie, as Chief Operating Officer. Roderick joins the Board and will manage the legal, commercial and financial aspects of the company to build an infrastructure for growth. The appointment marks a point of significant growth for 3d…
Markit Adds Sensitvities Data to CDS Pricing
Markit, a leading, global financial information services company, today announced it is supplementing its end-of-day prices for credit default swaps (CDS) with a new sensitivities report that will give clients valuable information about the relationship between a CDS price and other market variables. The new Markit CDS Sensitivities service gives clients the ability to understand…
Data Growth Causes Increase in Financial Infrastructure Externalisation
After President Obama passed the Dodd-Frank Act last year, in an effort to avoid another financial crisis like the one in 2008, Europe is following suit with MiFID 2. While both of these regulations aim to increase transparency into financial markets and, specifically, over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives, the impact of MiFID 2 isn’t likely to be…
The Inside Track on LEI
I love to be on the inside track, probably because it happens so rarely, and so I am sorely tempted to answer the Financial Stability Board’s (FSB) call for volunteers to participate in the private-sector LEI advisory panel that the industry group announced earlier this week. In fact, I haven’t felt quite so tempted since…
FIN to Underpin Latam Arbitrage
Trading systems vendor Fundamental Interactions (FIN) will play a key role in a proposed electronic market in Latin America, which would trade American Depository Receipts for U.S. and Canadian stocks that are linked to Latam securities, as well as other products. According to Bloomberg, the market will be located in one of Costa Rica, El…
RICs as Catalyst for Financial Markets ‘App Store’
High on the long, long list of the late Steve Jobs’ acts of genius was his decision to go against his own instinct and open up the iPhone/iPAD to third-party developers to create the App Store, a true game-changer. That got me to thinking that Thomson Reuters and the EU could be missing a trick…
FSB Establishes Expert Group to Make LEI Implementation Proposals
Apparently addressing growing industry concerns about the prospect of delays in adoption of the long-awaited legal entity identifier (LEI), the Financial Stability Board (FSB) has set up an expert group to make what it describes as “concrete proposals” on the implementation of a global LEI system. At its meeting in Basel this week, the FSB…
Q&A: Mellanox’s Asaf Wachtel on Kernel Bypass and a Future in Verbs
With a new version of its VMA software and new network cards, Mellanox is pushing down latency and jitter for both Ethernet and InfiniBand. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com spoke with the vendor’s director of business development Asaf Wachtel on the state of the art, and what’s next.. Q: For starters, can you describe briefly what your VMA software…