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BTG Pactual Transforms Data Management with Asset Control’s AC Plus
Brazilian investment bank BTG Pactual is implementing Asset Control’s AC Plus data management solution to optimise data and risk management ahead of a major push into international markets. The implementation of the data management system, one of the first in Latin America, is under way with a deadline to finish the initial stage of the…
Q&A: Ron Huizen of BittWare on Accelerating FPGA Development
BittWare was in the news recently with its FPGA network boards being adopted by Fixnetix for its trading and pre-trade risk offering. As well as providing hardware, BittWare’s also has tools to speed up FPGA development, helping to overcome a much-cited drawback of adopting them. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com talked to the company’s vice president of technology Ron…
NYSE Technologies, Bloomberg Offering Open Data APIs
This week’s formal roll out of OpenMAMA – aka the open source Middleware Agnostic Messaging API – from NYSE Technologies and friends (now officially hosted as a Linux Foundation project) means that trading firms and vendors now have a choice of open data APIs, the other being Bloomberg’s newly open BLPAPI. OpenMAMA – now at…
SwiftRef Utility to Include LEI, Reference Data
Interbank messaging organisation Swift is suggesting that its SwiftRef payments reference data utility, which went live in January, will also host legal entity identifier (LEI) reference data when it becomes available later this year, and perhaps securities reference data as well. SwiftRef was conceived to fill a perceived market gap in accurate and up-to-date payments…
US Data Transparency Coalition Focuses on Federal Data in Capital Markets
The US Data Transparency Coalition (DTC) introduced last week to advocate for the standardisation of federal data published online, warns that without significant changes in electronic data creation and management capital markets remain open to a crisis on the scale of the 2008 collapse of Lehman Brothers. If that is a worst case scenario of…
Trading Technologies/MathWorks Partner for Data Intensive Quant Trading
Trading Technologies International, which develops trading systems for the derivatives markets, has partnered with MathWorks, developer of the Matlab data analysis and numerical computation package, to link the two systems so that data intensive quantitative trading algorithms can access realtime pricing and submit orders directly to markets. The Matlab Datafeed Toolbox leverages Trading Technologies’ XTAPI…
Q&A: OneMarketData’s Louis Lovas on Deep Data
OneMarketData has been building technology to process big data since way before the term even existed. Its customers actually need to process “deep data” – reliable and accurate data instances down to a granular level, stored over long periods of time. We spoke to OMD’s director of solutions Louis Lovas about deep data, and what…
Increasing Trade Performance: A Quest for Lower Latency, or Simply Improved Monitoring?
Performance. We all grow up assessed for it. But in today’s trading environment, how can organisations balance increased regulatory requirements and maximise the efficiency of their core trading functions? Less operational resources means firms are challenged with creating more sophisticated business logic that differentiates them from the competition in the never ending quest for lower…
Q&A: Interactive Data’s Scott Caudell on Co-Lo and Managed Services
Managed service delivery in the low-latency world is an increasing focus as trading firms begin to measure ROI for their IT investments. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com spoke to Scott Caudell, vice president, IT Infrastructure, at Interactive Data, about its 7ticks business, and where it fits in. Q: To begin with, can you outline what the Interactive Data 7ticks…
Q&A: Art Novikov on the Sweet Spot of High Performance Market Data Processing
Building systems for low-latency market data integration with trading systems requires a rare combination of technology skills and financial markets understanding. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com talked to Art Novikov, founder of Trading Physics, which leverages that combination for its customers – whether they be vendors or market participants. Q: First off, can you explain what Trading Physics does,…