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Talking Intelligent Trading with Andrew Delaney: Talking Intelligently at ITS on February 4

With just under a month to go, we’re putting the finishing touches to the agenda for our Intelligent Trading Summit in London on February 4. I’ve waxed lyrical about the topics we’ll be discussing on our series of panels (see agenda here for a recap). But I’m also excited about the presentations we’ve lined up…

Misys Delivers Cloud Based Version of FusionCapital

Misys is building out its FusionCapital trading platform on the basis of its four core workflow solutions – Kondor, Summit, Opics and Sophis – and the addition of components including pricing, curves and securities inventory that can be used across the core solutions but also by third-party vendor solutions. The FusionCapital platform is the culmination…

Metamako Adds Third-Party Apps to Ultra-Low Latency Switching Platform

Metamako, a provider of deterministic ultra-low latency devices, has set up a partner programme to encourage third parties to develop applications for its MetaApp and MetaMux switching platforms, which include ultra low-latency switching, an onboard field programmable gate array (FPGA) and a server, and are typically used to trade directly with exchanges. Dave Snowdon, founder…

Talking Intelligent Trading With Andrew Delaney: ITS – The Story So Far

Out of the ashes of A-Team’s highly successful Low Latency Summit conference series riseth the Intelligent Trading Summit, scheduled for this coming February 4 in London. Born of the concept that it’s no longer enough simply to be fast – you have to be smart, too – the Intelligent Trading Summit uniquely brings you the…

MiFID II: Rewriting the Code

Demanding regulation is transforming order and execution management systems into detail-driven trading engines The capacity of order management systems (OMSs) to support buy-side desks was challenged at the Barcelona-based Fixed Income Leaders Summit 2015 on 14 October by John Greenan, a front office systems specialist, who suggested that some providers “had not kept pace” with…

Perseus Acknowledges MiFID II Time Synchronisation Standards as Fair and Reasonable

Changes made to recommendations on time synchronisation in the European Securities and Markets Authority’s (ESMA) latest technical standards for MiFID II have been welcomed by Perseus, a provider of managed services including PrecisionSync time services, and recognised as being fair and reasonable. While previous ESMA recommendations suggested nanosecond clock synchronisation for electronic trading, the standards…

Opinion: Which standards for regulating the future?

By Chris Pickles, Co-Chair of FIX Trading Community’s Reference Data Subgroup and Member of the Bloomberg Open Symbology Team This week, ESMA is expected to issue the final technical standards for MiFID II and MiFIR that it will propose to the European Commission for approval. The standards can then be implemented by investment firms in…

Talking Intelligent Trading with Andrew Delaney: MiFID II and the Coming Post-Trade Revolution

Word has it that ESMA is serious about its intention to publish its final guidance on MiFID II this month. With a possible (unconfirmed) publication date of September 24 doing the rounds, the market is bracing itself for a vigorously more prescriptive approach than under MiFID I, with less wiggle room for divergence from the…

Velocimetrics Releases First Major TipOff Upgrade Since TSA Licensing Deal

In its first major release since licensing TS Associates’ TipOff latency measurement system a year ago, London-based infrastructure monitoring specialist Velocimetrics has unveiled a new range of high performance TipOff appliances, one of which offers more than six times the storage capacity of previous appliances. The new appliance range will also underpin future releases of…

Talking Intelligent Trading with Andrew Delaney: Plato Gets Its Socrates

Kevin Covington’s appointment to the board of Delta Capita this week underscores a perhaps more wide-ranging development: the emergence of the Plato Partnership, which named Delta Capita as its strategic consultant earlier this year. As you’re doubtless aware, Plato Partnership is an industry-led consortium that aims – in its own words – to offer “new…