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Upcoming Webinar: Reviewing the Latency Landscape and the Next Generation of Ultra-Low Latency Infrastructure
Date: 17 September 2026 Time: 10:00am ET / 3:00pm London / 4:00pm CET Duration: 50 minutes Ultra-low latency is no longer the preserve of a handful of proprietary trading firms. As new asset classes electronify, data volumes surge, and regulatory expectations around execution quality and resilience tighten, the performance demands on trading infrastructure are broadening…
Upcoming Webinar: Navigating the Build vs Buy Dilemma: Cloud Strategies for Accelerating Quantitative Research
Date: 20 May 2026 Time: 10:00am ET / 3:00pm London / 4:00pm CET Duration: 50 minutes For many quantitative trading firms and asset managers, building a self-provisioned historical market data environment remains one of the most time-consuming and resource-intensive steps in establishing a new research capability. Sourcing data, normalising symbologies, handling corporate actions and maintaining…
Upcoming Webinar: How to move to a modern, component based trading architecture using a Buy AND Build approach
Date: 7 May 2026 Time: 10:00am ET / 3:00pm London / 4:00pm CET Duration: 50 minutes To remain competitive in today’s electronic markets, firms need trading architectures that support rapid innovation, effortless integration of new capabilities, and the agility to respond to shifting market demands. This is prompting technology leaders to move beyond the traditional…
LSEG and Dell Technologies Announce Multi-Year Private Cloud Collaboration
LSEG has entered into a multi-year agreement with Dell Technologies to develop a new private cloud platform and optimise its existing on-premises infrastructure. This initiative is designed to bolster the resilience and performance of various Data & Analytics and Markets platforms that function outside of LSEG’s current public cloud environments. As part of this collaboration,…
Avelacom Expands Latin American Reach with Direct Connection to nuam Exchange Infrastructure
Avelacom, the global provider of low-latency network solutions, has expanded its presence in Latin America by establishing a direct connection to nuam, the holding company integrating the stock exchanges of Chile, Colombia, and Peru. The company has deployed a new physical point of presence (PoP) at the Equinix ST1 data centre in Santiago, Chile. This…
Determinism is the New Speed: Why High Performance Trading Infrastructure is Being Redefined Around Provability
The definition of high performance in trading infrastructure is shifting. Raw speed, once the key benchmark, is increasingly being subsumed into a broader set of requirements around determinism, provability and architectural simplicity. For firms operating in fragmented, event-driven and increasingly automated markets, the competitive edge is no longer measured in nanoseconds alone, it lies in…
STS Digital Launches Structured Products Platform, Deepening Kraken Partnership
STS Digital, the regulated digital-asset derivatives firm, has launched what it describes as a first-to-market structured products platform for institutional investors, extending the principal dealer model it has built across crypto options into a broader range of yield enhancement, capital protection and bespoke structuring capabilities. The platform, which targets banks, institutional investors, family offices, external…
McKay Brothers and Quincy Data Launch High-Speed Services Linking Illinois Futures Markets with Sydney Trading Hubs
McKay Brothers and Quincy Data are launching new services connecting Illinois futures markets with major trading facilities in Sydney, Australia. The services link the CME in Aurora and ICE Futures in Chicago with Sydney’s Australian Liquidity Centre and Equinix SY5, which host ASX and Cboe Australia respectively. McKay Brothers will offer private transport capacity, while…
Data Platform Modernisation: Why The Hardest Problems Are No Longer Technical
Capital markets firms pursuing data platform modernisation have largely solved the technical challenges of compute and storage, but the organisational, governance and architectural decisions surrounding those platforms remain stubbornly difficult, according to practitioners from Northern Trust, RBC Wealth Management and LSEG, speaking at a recent A-Team Group webinar entitled Data platform modernisation: Best practice approaches…
Recorded Webinar: Data platform modernisation: Best practice approaches for unifying data, real time data and automated processing
Financial institutions are evolving their data platform modernisation programmes, moving beyond data-for-cloud capabilities and increasingly towards artificial intelligence-readiness. This has shifted the data management focus in the direction of data unification, real-time delivery and automated governance. The drivers of this transition are improved operational efficiency as manual processes are replaced by faster, more accurate automated…