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Quotix and Celer Technologies Implement Azul Systems’ Zing JVM
Azul Systems continues to build its direct and third-party customer bases with recent wins for its Zing Java virtual machine (JVM) at Quotix, a provider of intelligent trade execution and management for the foreign exchange market, and Celer Technologies, a provider of adaptable high performance trading platforms. Quotix selected Zing to support and optimise the…
Redline Trading Solutions Adds Managed Version of RedlineFeed
Redline Trading Solutions has introduced a managed version of RedlineFeed, which offers subscribers an ultra-low latency market data feed built from straight-line aggregation of exchange feeds using Redline’s ticker plant. The data feed provides ultra-low latency normalised market data for US equities and options, but will soon be augmented with futures and foreign exchange data….
Financial Markets Tune In To Wireless
Wireless network technologies offer firms with latency-sensitive trading strategies a significant speed advantage over fibre optic technologies. But to deliver a competitive edge in trading performance they must be carefully selected, deployed and operated. Download our White Paper today and learn: The benefits of latest generation microwave and millimetre wave wireless technologies that can reduce…
McObject Improves Performance of eXtremeDB Financial Edition and Eases Development with Version 6.0
McObject, a provider of low latency, high performance database management technologies, will release eXtremeDB Financial Edition version 6.0 today. The new version is a major upgrade including support for big data management for capital markets analytics and access to the database’s vector-based statistical functions using SQL and Python. Version 6.0 of eXtremeDB Financial Edition has…
Quincy Expands QED with Eurex Futures
Quincy Data has expanded its Quincy Extreme Data (QED) service with the addition of bond and equity futures from Eurex that will be distributed to data centres across the UK, New Jersey and Illinois. This is the first European data source to be added to the service, which already distributes data from eight US exchanges…
How to Create an Agile Trading System
High speed, low latency trading connectivity is no longer enough to differentiate you from your competitors – so how do you add value to your trading systems? How can you create a trading platform that is: Flexible enough to accommodate the transaction lifecycle? Powerful enough to deliver the analytics for better informed trading decisions? Fast…
Quincy Expands QED with Equity and Energy Futures
Quincy Data has expanded its Quincy Extreme Data (QED) service with the addition of select equity and energy futures sourced from 350 East Cermak and cash treasuries sourced from Carteret. With this development, Quincy clients will not only benefit from additional data sources, but also Quincy’s broad distribution of data from eight exchanges to trading…
Tech Matters with Pete Harris: Flash For The Men, Not The Boys
In the search for increased financial application performance, systems architects are exploring a number of different hardware approaches. Parallel processing is one of them. Another is deploying Flash memory as a substitute for hard disk storage, which can be particularly effective where data throughput is a bottleneck. As it happens, quite a bit has been…
Options Completes Expansion of Velocity IaaS to Mahwah Data Centre
Options has completed the expansion of its Velocity infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) trading platform to the NYSE colocation facility in Mahwah, New Jersey. With this development, Options’ clients will not only benefit from exchange colocation to access a wide variety of dark and lit markets across the US, but also from low-latency trading strategies that could improve…
Argon Design Delivers Ultra-Low Latency Trading System to Prop Shop
Argon Design, a Cambridge, UK-based engineering design consultancy, has developed an ultra-low latency financial trading system for a proprietary trading firm doing latency arbitrage on a leading exchange in the US. The system went live in May and builds on Argon’s September 2013 introduction of high-performance trading technology that combines the benefits of field programmable…