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Quincy Data Extends Low Latency Market Data Service to Frankfurt
Quincy Data has pushed further into Europe with the extension of its Quincy Extreme Data service to Frankfurt. The Frankfurt service distributes CME Group market data from the CME Aurora data centre in Chicago to the FR2 data centre in 37.79 milliseconds. The company has also lowered the latency of distributing CME Group data from…
CMC Markets Adopts SmartTrade’s LiquidityFX Managed Service
CMC Markets, a provider of spread betting, foreign exchange and contracts for difference trading, has selected smartTrade Technologies’ LiquidityFX trading solution for FX and precious metals on the basis of its no brokerage fee model, delivery as a cloud-based managed service and collocation with liquidity providers across Equinix data centres in New York, Tokyo and…
MarketPrizm and Fusion Systems Deliver Managed Low Latency Market Gateway
MarketPrizm’s tie up with Fusion Systems to offer a managed, low latency market gateway and risk management solution for clients in Asia-Pacific is expected to extend to the US later this year and could reach European markets depending on client demand. The joint offer combines MarketPrizm’s market data, collocation hosting, infrastructure and connectivity services with…
Talking Intelligent Trading with Peter Farley: To Really Get Big Data You Will Need Both Brains and Brawn
Intelligent Trading Technology was created last year to recognise the shifting emphasis in trading rooms that continue to search for “Alpha” and that elusive competitive advantage. This was to both embrace our existing Low Latency community and expertise, along with those rapidly adopting strategies that use “Big Data” and more sophisticated analytics. Some said that…
Tech Matters with Pete Harris: Kaazing’s Living Web For Everything-as-a-Service
Founded in Silicon Valley back in 2007 as a better way to deliver interactive web apps, Kaazing is getting a new lease of life with the emergence of what it calls the Living Web – its marketing spin on what’s more often called the Internet of Things (IoT), where distributed applications of all kinds communicate…
NanoSpeed Adds Ultra-Low Latency Connectivity to Eurex T7 Using FPGA Technology
NanoSpeed, a provider of ultra-fast field programmable gate array (FPGA) connectivity solutions, has added the Deutsche Börse Group’s Eurex T7 platform to the 30-plus exchanges it offers access to using the Nano-TG trading gateway. As well as access to the Eurex T7 platform, NanoSpeed is offering connectivity to the eight Eurex T7 derivatives partner exchanges…
Deutsche Börse Extends AlphaFlash with Alerts of Upcoming Economic Events
Deutsche Börse Market Data + Services has added AlphaFlash Risk Signal to its AlphaFlash brand of automated news feeds. The service alerts users to upcoming economic releases, giving them the opportunity to adjust trading and risk management systems ahead of releases. The service has been developed in response to customer interest in accounting for economic…
Talking Intelligent Trading with Peter Farley: The Show Moves On
With our inaugural Intelligent Trading Summit behind us a couple of weeks ago, the show moves on to New York where, on May 13, we will kick off another packed agenda with a keynote and panel discussion examining the key attributes of what is required from an Intelligent Trading architecture. Although some experts now say…
Opinion: The Evolution of Intelligent Trading
By Mike Powell, Managing Director, Enterprise, Thomson Reuters I was recently invited to take part in a panel at the Intelligent Trading Summit in London – a fascinating topic exploring the current and future state of trading, industry trends, and supporting technology and architecture. Alongside Richard Bell, Fixed Income eTrading Latency, Performance & Big Data…
Azul Systems Solves Java Warm-up Problem and Plans More Java Improvements
Azul Systems has added a solution to the warm-up problem associated with Java applications to its Zing Java virtual machine and there is more to come as the Java specialist turns its attention to improving Java libraries, making Hadoop more efficient and optimising Zing for cloud deployments. The company’s solution to the Java warm-up problem,…