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Q&A: Intilop’s Kelly Masood on Doing IT in Silicon
Not too many traders have heard of Intilop, though its technology is probably widely deployed within the low-latency trading systems they rely on, especially in the areas of network processing. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com spoke to the company’s CEO/CTO Kelly Masood to find out the ‘inside’ story. Q: Can you begin by introducing Intilop and what the company…
Market Data Capacity: 2011 Review and 2012 Outlook
So, 2011 is now well behind us and we are already in the year of the Dragon. So it is high time to look back to assess the past and to look into the capacity planning crystal ball. It is impossible to know the future of course but we can learn from the careful examination…
Kempen Capital Manages Collateral and Reduces Risk with Omgeo ProtoColl
Amsterdam-based asset manager Kempen Capital Management has implemented Omgeo’s ProtoColl to automate collateral management for OTC derivatives and reduce counterparty and operational risk. The asset manager first outsourced collateral management before bringing it back in house and creating a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet solution that has now been replaced with ProtoColl. The software went live in…
Can The Buy Side be Sold on the Benefits of Low Latency?
In the world of capital markets, the term low latency isn’t new. When we think about exactly who is benefiting from real-time updates, the sell-side investment banks, brokerage firms who are selling assets, securities or the latest derivative typically come to mind. We do not usually associate the advising institutions directly focused on buying –…
Federated Investors Implements Cadis EDM to Improve Data Management
Federated Investors is implementing the Cadis enterprise data management (EDM) platform to increase operational efficiency, reduce risk and manage data across multiple acquisitions that have supported the $370 billion asset manager’s growth in recent years. The selection of the Cadis EDM, a service oriented architecture (SOA) platform that allows data to be accessed wherever it…
NYSE and Fixnetix Combo Accelerates Global Rollout of “Frictionless” Market Access
So, in the wake of NYSE Euronext’s failed merger with Deutsche Borse, executives at the exchange group are clearly embarking on a Plan B. Part of that is the deal it announced on February 16, which will see it take a 25% stake in Fixnetix, a provider of co-located, managed services for low-latency market data,…
New Money for Correlix; But What Next?
While it didn’t make a splash about the event, latency monitoring specialist Correlix last week acknowledged that it has raised further capital from existing investors and hired former Island and Inet exec Richard Wilkins as vice president of sales, a position that has been vacant for a couple of years. Wilkins reports to founder and…
Asset Control Readies AC Plus Data Platform for Transparency Regulations
Asset Control has rebuilt the heart of its AC Plus data management platform to meet demands for transparency in pending regulations such as the US Dodd-Frank Act and Europe’s Basel III and Solvency II directives. The transparency aspects of incoming regulations is having a significant impact on firms’ approaches to data management, a theme that…
Q&A: Art Novikov on the Sweet Spot of High Performance Market Data Processing
Building systems for low-latency market data integration with trading systems requires a rare combination of technology skills and financial markets understanding. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com talked to Art Novikov, founder of Trading Physics, which leverages that combination for its customers – whether they be vendors or market participants. Q: First off, can you explain what Trading Physics does,…
Nanosecond Market Data Feeds – FPGA Centric vs. FPGA Accelerated Designs
The “Microburst” Problem Trading architects face the constant challenge of lowering latency. Today, this challenge is focused on achieving nanosecond speeds in a deterministic way, even during periods of high market activity, so called ‘microbursts’. In fast moving ‘bursty’ markets, commodity CPUs are no longer capable of offering the lowest latency or tolerating microbursts. Memory…