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We’re Back … With Some Industry Views …
Welcome to 2012 from Low-Latency.com! We hope it will be a year of success and prosperity for all in our community. We ended last year with a few of our own predictions, to to get this one going, we asked some of our friends what they expected to see over the next 12 months. Here…
GoldenSource Opens Singapore Office, Hires New APAC Sales Director
GoldenSource, a leading provider of Enterprise Data Management (EDM) solutions, has announced that it has opened an office in Singapore, its fifth office in the APAC region. David Chew has been appointed as Sales Director and will be responsible for growing the business and developing GoldenSource’s presence in the region. “David’s 20 years of experience…
Q&A: Joshua Walsky of Broadway Technology on Functional Scale and “Build and Buy”
Any trading technology firm that is co-headquartered in New York City and Austin, Texas, gets my attention, even when it’s been flying under the radar for the past few years. Now, Broadway Technology is taking investment from its clients – including Goldman Sachs – to accelerate its rate of growth. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com caught up with the…
Efama Applauds EU Commission Decision to Protect European ISIN Data Users
Efama (the European Fund and Asset Management Association) applauds the EU Commission decision to protect European ISIN data users to the extent possible under EU competition law. Efama stresses that this decision is a major victory for the European financial services industry which will save approximately $100 million per annum in ISIN license fees going…
Signing Off for The Holidays … With Some Predictions ..
Low-Latency.com is taking a little break for the holidays, so now is the time to extend seasonal greetings to our community, and to wish everyone well for 2012. But we thought we’d leave you with some personal predictions for the next year … – Low latency covers a broad spectrum. Reducing milliseconds is for some…
Collaborating To Make FIX Go Fastest
It used to be that when FIX protocol communication was needed, a trading firm would simply buy an off-the-shelf gateway/engine, install it and treat it as a black box, much like a network router. But with the advent of multi-asset class automated trading – including algo and HFT – firms are looking to optimise the…
Heptagon Capital Goes Live with Thomson Reuters Pricing and Reference Data via Advent
Advent Software, a leading provider of software and services for the global investment management industry, and Thomson Reuters today announced that Heptagon Capital, a specialized investment management firm, can access pricing and reference data from Thomson Reuters via Advent’s new market data interface. This critical and timely information will enable Heptagon Capital to enhance its…
Thomson Reuters Opens Up RICs to Address EC Antitrust Concerns
The industry has until January 25 to offer the European Commission feedback on Thomson Reuters’ proposal to allow clients to license its Reuters Instrument Codes (RICs) in order to access third-party and internal market data. Thomson Reuters made the proposal as part of its attempt to settle an EC investigation launched in 2009 into whether…
Q&A: Pierre Feligioni of QuantHouse on Why FPGAs Are The Next Step
QuantHouse is an established player in the low-latency datafeed handling business, but only very recently launched a hardware accelerated solution. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com asked the vendor’s co-founder and COO Pierre Feligioni to explain the move, and provide some more technical detail. Q: QuantBOX is your first offering to make use of hardware acceleration. With the continuing performance…
Thomson Reuters Welcomes the European Commission’s Market Test on Market Data Feed Initiatives
Thomson Reuters welcomes the decision by the European Commission to move forward with formal market testing of its proposal to extend usage rights of its Reuters Instrument Codes (RICs). Thomson Reuters believes that the extended usage rights will provide its customers useful support in managing their real-time market data needs in what is an increasingly…