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Managed Services in the Mainstream – It’s Not Just About Cost Anymore
Are managed services coming of age as providers of front-office trading capabilities? Certainly some of the trends we are seeing suggest they are. It was not so long ago when investment banks and other sell-side trading rooms were able to push the managed services debate into the long-grass, citing control, security and competitive advantage as…
Options Adds Quincy Extreme Data as it Builds Out Pipe Velocity Platform
Options, a provider of trading infrastructure-as-a-service, has partnered Quincy Data to offer its customers trading at Equinix NY4 and the CME access to the Quincy Extreme Data ultra low latency market data service. The addition of Quincy Extreme Data to Options’ Pipe Velocity electronic trading infrastructure solution was driven by a request from an investment…
ITRS Adds Analytic Framework for Data Integrity to Geneos Suite
ITRS Group is piloting an analytic framework for data integrity that is designed to give investment banks, brokers and exchanges a real-time view across pricing data sourced from multiple market data feeds. A production version of the Geneos Market Data Monitor (MDM) will be released on 20 February, offering users predefined relative price algorithms –…
Talking Intelligent Trading with Andrew Delaney: Step Right Up! ITS is Coming To Town!
The inaugural Intelligent Trading Summit – successor to A-Team’s acclaimed Low-Latency Summits – kicks off in London on March 4 with an action-packed programme of presentations and panel discussions around the convergence of Analytics, driven by Big Fast Data, to initiate the best trades, executed with Low Latency! We are delighted to welcome as platinum…
Talking Intelligent Trading With Andrew Delaney: Eikon – An Icon of Modern Trading Analytics?
At the risk of sounding contrarian, could it be that an earlier generation of Thomson Reuters management was onto something when it put a whole lot of the Thomson family’s eggs in the Eikon basket? This week’s unveiling of Eikon 4 – together with a bunch of sentiment analysis capabilities – illustrates the strides Thomson…
ITRS Delivers Murex Monitoring Interface Via Excelian Tie-Up
ITRS has partnered with integrator Excelian to add Murex to the list of trading and risk applications handled by its Geneos performance monitoring system. The arrangement will give mutual clients access to real-time metrics on system performance for Murex solutions. ITRS already delivers predictive, real-time monitoring and management capabilities for over 100 third-party trading and…
Talking Intelligent Trading with Andrew Delaney: No Sleep Till Bedtime!
Earlier this week, I blogged on our Reference Data Review channel complaining about the lack of easement into 2014. And so has the rush of last week extended into this as we corral the marketplace for the latest ideas and opinions for our upcoming conferences, which kick off in London on March 4 with our…
Q&A: Exablaze’s Matthew Chapman on Network Switch Latency and Management
In a world where major network vendors like Cisco Systems and Arista Networks are competing on increasingly complex functionality, there is still room for niche products that fulfill straightforward local connectivity needs, including manageability with negligible latency. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com spoke to Exablaze’s CTO Matthew Chapman about this need, and how his company is addressing it. Q:…
Q&A: Solarflare’s Bruce Tolley on Packet Capture and Performance Management
Packet capture – grabbing every data packet on a network for analysis – is becoming increasingly important, not just for specialist latency measurement but for higher level monitoring and management of trading and compliance functions. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com spoke to Solarflare’s Bruce Tolley how and why it is being integrated into the company’s network interface cards. Q: Solarflare has…
Vulpes Investment Management Revamps IT for Systematic Trading
Vulpes Investment Management is revamping its technology infrastructure as it moves out of volatility trading and into systematic trading. The revamp includes implementation of OneMarketData’s OneTick stream processing and tick data management solution for quantitative research, modelling and strategy development, as well as a Tora electronic trading platform and portfolio management system, Redis in-memory database…