The autumn season of 2010 holds the promise of extreme exchange action in the European arena as all of the major incumbent exchanges proceed with major investments in their matching engine, data centre and connectivity infrastructures. Clearly, this has all come in response to the arrival of a glut of multilateral trading facilities (MTFs) since the launch of the most successful of them – Chi-X Europe – back in mid-2007.
Tariff shocks, geopolitical realignment and macroeconomic regime shifts are redrawing the investment landscape faster than most firms’ technology stacks can keep up. For hedge funds and asset managers, the ability to move quickly into new asset classes, geographies or strategies is no longer just an operational concern – it is a front-office differentiator and, increasingly,...
How modular architecture, 24/5 trading, and the rising cost of change are reshaping equities infrastructure By Ian Salmon, Head of Accelerator Program, Adaptive. Equities trading infrastructure has traditionally been judged against a familiar set of measures: latency, throughput, reliability and the ability to remain stable during periods of intense market activity. Those requirements remain fundamental....
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Valuations and pricing teams are facing a much higher degree of scrutiny from both the regulatory community and the investor community in the glare of the post-crisis data transparency spotlight. Fair value price transparency requirements and the gradual move towards a more harmonised accounting standards environment is set within the context of the whole debate...