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Intelligent Trading Summit: The Human Resources Conundrum

Statistics presented by MathWorks at this week’s A-Team Group Intelligent Trading Summit suggest a significant skills gap among UK graduates entering the financial services sector and a need to develop fresh skills in areas such as data science. Presenting the results of the company’s skills research project among 43 buy-side firms, Steve Wilcockson, industry manager…

Intelligent Trading Summit: Tackling Today’s Problems to Deliver Next Generation Trading

Today’s trading environment is ring-fenced by problems, but there are solutions and technologies that can revitalise trading and make it fit for purpose for next generation traders who are already immersed in technology. Presenting a keynote address at A-Team Group’s Intelligent Trading Summit, Steve Grob, director of group strategy at Fidessa, described what is going…

Intelligent Trading Summit: An Architecture for Intelligent Trading

A-Team Group’s Intelligent Trading Summit dedicated to discovering What’s Next for Data Driven Trading Technology got underway with an inspiring opening keynote presentation from Alessandro Petroni, senior principal architect, financial services, at Tibco Software. Petroni discussed the need for intelligent trading, the challenges it presents and the value it offers. He also described the management…

Perseus Telecom Adds London Metro Microwave Connectivity

Perseus Telecom has closed the gaps between London’s trading markets with microwave connectivity linking the Equinix LD4 data centre in Slough, the NYSE data centre in Basildon, the London Stock Exchange (LSE) data centre and the City based London Hosting Centre. The metro connectivity links Equinix LD4, which hosts foreign exchange and equities trading engines,…

Q&A: Velocimetrics’ Steve Colwill on Real-Time Business Insight

As trading firms look to improve business performance, perhaps using sophisticated strategies running at speed, and regulators demand increased transparency and integrity across trading environments, the need is for tools that can monitor and analyse complex business flows. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com spoke to Velocimetrics’ CEO Steve Colwill about the need for real-time business insight and how it…

Tech Matters with Pete Harris: AWS Sharpens Analytics and Big Data Chops

Amazon’s AWS (for Amazon Web Services) cloud platform has been around for a few years now – it was launched in 2006 by the online retailer then looking to make use of its spare IT capacity – and has been increasingly used by financial markets players looking for less expensive compute and storage resource. Recently,…

Perseus Telecom Acquires Microwave Connectivity Provider TLV Networks

Perseus Telecom, a privately held provider of high speed global connectivity, has acquired TLV Networks and its ultra-low latency microwave connectivity between CME’s Aurora data centre and ICE at Equinix’s 350 Cermak Road data centre in Chicago. The all cash transaction completes today and transfers TLV Networks’ hardware, spectrum, design and operational service to Perseus,…

Talking Intelligent Trading with Andrew Delaney: ITS – An Architecture for Intelligent Trading

With just a week away from our inaugural Intelligent Trading Summit at London’s America Square conference centre – yes, that’s next Tuesday, March 4 so register to attend here if you haven’t already done so – I thought it would be useful to take a look at what’s in store. So here’s how we plan…

Big Data Technology & Tools – Can They Deliver the Elusive Alpha?

One of the hottest topics in the industry right now is whether the ability to leverage Big Data in the trading environment, with the use of more sophisticated analytics, will deliver real competitive advantage. Some say the jury is still out, but our panel of leading experts at next week’s A-Team Group Intelligent Trading Summit…

Lucera Details On-Demand Infrastructure for Electronic Trading

Lucera, a spin off from Cantor Fitzgerald, brings its on-demand, high-performance infrastructure for electronic trading to market today, offering trading firms reduced time to market, lower capital expenditure, on-demand scalability and reduced operational risk. The company and platform emerged from Cantor Fitzgerald in April 2013, after the financial services firm released a group of employees…