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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…
Alize Trading Builds Algo Trading Business on Horizon Platform
By: Zoe Schiff Alize Trading, a Paris-based algorithmic prop house, has gone life with Horizon Platform with a view to developing its algorithmic trading business. The flexibility of Horizon’s algorithmic trading software allows smaller prop trading firms to engage in trades with a few exchanges and gradually increase their scale of operation as they grow….
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…
DeltaOne and Horizon Software Partner to Provide an Integrated Solution for ETF Quoting and Hedging
By Zoe Schiff DeltaOne Solutions and Horizon Software have partnered to deliver an integrated solution that provides a single place to analyse and implement index and exchange traded funds (ETF) trades, in turn allowing market makers and traders to quote and hedge ETF trades with greater accuracy. The partnership brings together DeltaOne’s index and ETF…
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…
Getting to Grips with Risk Data: The Fundamental Review of the Trading Book
By Zoe Schiff If you thought BCBS 239 would be a challenge, you should take a look at the proposals currently being formulated as part of the Basel group’s Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB). Happily, this will be part of what we’ll be talking about next Tuesday, when A-Team hosts a webinar on…
Thomson Reuters Offers Three Open Source APIs and Plans More
Thomson Reuters has simplified access to its data feeds and services with a family of open source application programming interfaces (APIs) that are designed to help developers create innovative applications quickly and more easily than was previously possible. The Elektron API family is a response to customer interest in open source APIs that can be…
Mirror Blockchain-Based Trading Platform Gets $8.8 Million Funding
By Zoe Schiff The idea that blockchain technology can aid in the development of real world trading technology gained more credence this month with the news that Mirror – a trading platform operator formerly known as Vaurum – has received $8.8 million in Series A funding from investors led by Route 66 Ventures. San Francisco-based…
Symbiont Sets Out Plans for its Smart Securities Technology
Symbiont is planning to issue its first private equity shares as smart securities on the bitcoin blockchain next month with a view to demonstrating its capabilities to financial institutions interested in programmable securities that are stored on a cryptographic distributed ledger called a blockchain. Beyond the demonstration, the company aims to offer a service based…
Thomson Reuters Adds Sentiment Data on Companies to its MarketPsych Indices
Thomson Reuters has added indices covering over 7,500 global companies to its MarketPsych indices, giving investors greater insight into how emotions and perceptions move financial markets, and helping them to define more effective trading strategies. The company indices add to MarketPsych indices that have been developed by Thomson Reuters in conjunction with MarketPsych, a consultancy…