A-Team Insight Knowledge Hub TTI The latest content from across the platform
Itiviti Details Plans Following its Formation through the Unification of Orc and CameronTec
Itiviti has set out development plans following its formation through the unification of Orc Group, a provider of electronic trading technology for listed derivatives, and CameronTec Group, a provider of FIX messaging infrastructure and connectivity. Torben Munch, CEO at Itiviti and formerly CEO at Orc, says the combined company is more than the sum of…
DTCC Promotes Development of Distributed Ledger Technology
DTCC has thrown its weight behind distributed ledger technology as a means of modernising post-trade processes and says it is in the best position to coordinate evaluation and standardisation of the distributed ledger platform, address challenges and decide whether it is a better solution than existing technology. The company sets out its views on distributed…
Talking Intelligent Trading with Andrew Delaney: Deploying Fast DBMS Across the Trading Enterprise
The recent STAC report on McObject’s eXtremeDB Financial Edition 7.0 database management system gives trading infrastructure and application developers cause for hope on two levels: performance and price. And this in turn raises the very real prospect of deploying high-performance database management technology in functional areas throughout the trading and risk landscape. According to McObject…
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…
Talking Intelligent Trading with Andrew Delaney: The Long and Winding Road to (CSC’s) Heart
Hats off to Hugh Hughes and the team at Fixnetix, who’ve sold the company to CSC (Computer Sciences Corp.), in a deal that gives the small but influential provider of managed services for trading the muscle it has craved for so long. It’s been a long journey with many twists and turns. Fixnetix has been…
Celoxica Adds Hardware-Based Ticker Plant for OPRA Data
Hardware accelerator specialist Celoxica has launched the Celoxica Ticker Plant (CTP) for the OPRA options pricing feed. CTP for OPRA aims to minimise users’ data centre footprint while processing the OPRA data set’s high message volumes at ultra-low latency. OPRA, the Options Price Reporting Authority, provides market data from 12 US options exchanges. Already considered…
Anova Goes Live with Low-Latency Laser Link Between Secaucus and Carteret Data Centres
By Zoe Schiff Anova Technologies has gone live with a hybrid laser market data link between the Secaucus and Carteret, New Jersey data centres that house the Nasdaq and Bats/ Direct Edge matching engines. The company is offering Nasdaq TotalView-ITCH and BX, Bats BZY and BZX, and Direct Edge EdgeA and EdgeX market data feeds…
smartTrade Secures Contract Wins in London and Japan
By Zoe Schiff smartTrade Technologies has secured contract wins in London and Japan. In London, the trading solutions supplier will build and host an e-trading platform for R5FX, a new liquidity pool dedicated to emerging market currencies trading. In Japan, smartTrade will host its LiquidityFX low-latency connectivity platform for Gaitame.com, an online foreign exchange company….
Talking Intelligent Trading with Andrew Delaney: We Are All Fintech Now
Fintech this, fintech that. It’s everywhere you turn. A bit like social media for finance just a couple of years back, whose community of tweeters and chatterers have fallen eerily silent (although tweeting is silent anyway, isn’t it?). Sitting over a Turkish lunch in Whitecross Street with a 30-year veteran of the high-performance market data…
Talking Intelligent Trading with Andrew Delaney: Approaching the Low-Latency Endgame?
We’ve been tracking the developments in the high frequency trading technology space since the launch of Low-Latency.com in 2006 or thereabouts. Now retired and living near Heathrow – or rather, reincarnated as Intelligent Trading Technology – she watches with interest as the superfast aspect of our marketplace finally approaches the endgame, where physics finally says…