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Recorded Webinar: Low-Latency Wireless: What’s Hot! Financial Markets Tune In To Wireless
This webinar has passed, but you can view the recording here. Microwave and other wireless technologies mark the next step in the progression of ultra-low latency trading. However, these technologies are complex and new to the financial markets, which have exacting requirements for speed and reliability. Listen to this educational webinar to learn about: Financial…
Low Latency Summit: The Opportunities and Challenges of In-memory Solutions
In-memory computing has been part of the fabric of financial services systems for some years, but it is experiencing a revival in interest as recent developments allow for ever greater input/output speeds and the processing of greater volumes of data. Pete Harris, editor and publisher of Low-Latency.com, led a panel discussion on in-memory technology at…
Low Latency Summit: News and Social Media Analytics Move into High Speed Trading
Real-time news has already made its way into high speed trading strategies and social media is not far behind. But these big data sources need to be handled with care, and focused analytic solutions may be the best way to start. This was the conclusion from a panel discussion addressing ‘News and Social Media for…
Low Latency Summit: Low Latency Gives Way to Big Data and Analytics
The pressure to achieve ever lower latency in trading has not eased in the six or so years since low latency became an industry buzz, but it is beginning to ease as the pure need for speed gives way to growing interest in smart analytics and big data. Opening this week’s A-Team Group Low Latency…
A-Team Makes the BBC News!
Reference Data Review’s editor Andrew Delaney was interviewed for a BBC World Service show that aired this morning. The focus is on high frequency trading from our Low Latency Summit event earlier this week, but Andrew talks about regulators, data management and risk from about 7 minutes 30 seconds… http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01j0081
BBC Covers Low-Latency and Analytics; Interviews Low-Latency.com and TS-Associates
The BBC dropped by the Low-Latency Summit on Tuesday with a mission to find out more about electronic trading, low latency and analytics. Interviews with Pete Harris, editor of Low-Latency.com, Andrew Delaney, editor-in-chief at A-Team Group, and Henry Young, CEO at TS-Associates, were conducted, and edited into a rather nice entry-level segment. Listen here.
London Stock Exchange Taps NeXXCom for Low-Latency Equinix Wireless Service
The London Stock Exchange today announced a millimetre-wave wireless service providing low-latency connectivity between its City of London data centre and Equinix’s LD4 data centre in Slough, which is host to many markets and trading firms. The service is being introduced in collaboration with NeXXCom Wireless and is likely to deliver a sub 300 microsecond roundtrip when…
Q&A: BSO Network Solutions’ Fraser Bell on New Frontiers for Low-Latency Connectivity
Moving into emerging markets around the globe is very much in the minds of major trading firms, and as a result, lowering the latency of access is of increasing importance. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com caught up with BSO Network Solutions managing director Fraser Bell to find out what the drivers are, and how his company is responding. Q:…
Solace Systems Builds Customer Base Through Cost Reduction and Big Data Capabilities
After a summer of success in closing contracts with small firms in the financial services sector, Solace Systems is moving up-market in response to growing interest in its hardware appliance messaging solutions from large investment banks seeking to cut cost and complexity out of IT infrastructure while improving performance and coping with big data requirements….
Q&A: Pacnet’s Ian Farruggio on Low Latency and Asia/Pacific Opportunities
With many trading firms looking at new opportunities in the Asia/Pacific region, where algo trading and the lowest-latency are still very much in vogue, Pacnet’s connectivity and data centre offering is becoming increasingly popular. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com chatted to enterprise sales manager Ian Farruggio to find out more about the company – past, present and future. Q: How…