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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…
Bloomberg Open Symbology Gains Traction with Take-Up by Finra
Bloomberg’s addition of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (Finra) to a growing list of organisations recognising and using its open symbology offers financial firms another step along the way to using open rather than proprietary symbologies designed to improve market connectivity and transparency, while reducing users’ costs. Broker-dealers registered with Finra are required by the…
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…
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…