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A-Team Survey Reports Potential Impact of Brexit on our Trading Community
To gauge opinion on the UK’s exit from the European Union, A-Team Group, producers of Intelligent Trading Technology, recently conducted a survey among capital markets participants. The survey uncovered serious concerns about the impact Brexit could have on the UK financial data and technology industry, with 85% of respondents expecting the impact to be negative…
Redline Adds Eurex EOBI Order Book Support To its Fast Market Data Solution
Underscoring the important role of Eurex to European markets in general, Redline Trading Solutions has added a feed handler using Eurex’s Enhanced Order Book Interface (Eurex EOBI) protocol. The EOBI interface offers faster access to Eurex order book data, helping firms to respond more rapidly to changes on Eurex whether they are trading in the…
Intelligent Trading Summit Discusses Aspects of Optimal Performance
Regulation, optimal execution, intelligent trading solutions, high performance technologies and emerging capabilities including machine learning, sentiment analysis and predictive analytics were at the top of the agenda at A-Team Group’s Intelligent Trading Summit in New York City. Setting the scene for the summit, keynotes from Kevin O’Hara, senior advisor to the National Stock Exchange, and…
FXecosystem Deploys Metamako Devices to Improve Network Control and Lower Latency
FXecosystem, a provider of outsourced connectivity services for the foreign exchange and fixed income markets, has embedded Metamako MetaConnect switches in its network to provide advanced control and visibility, as well as support for dynamic patching. The Metamako devices underpin FXecosystem’s FXeco-eye real-time network and flow monitoring and data visualisation tool, giving users of the…
Intelligent Trading Summit Considers Challenges and Opportunities of Incoming Regulation
Regulation of trading operations will ramp up with the introduction of Regulation Automated Trading (Reg AT) and Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II), adding to the cost burden, but also providing potential for new trading opportunities. The challenges and opportunities presented by incoming regulation and the technology response for 2016 will be explored…
Intelligent Trading Summit Considers Potential of Predictive Analytics and Machine Learning
Predictive analytics, machine learning and sentiment analysis are making their way into the trading environment, but how useful are they and will they provide a new model for intelligent trading? These questions and more will be discussed at next week’s A-Team Group Intelligent Trading Summit in New York. Adrian Sharp, senior industry consultant, capital markets,…
Intelligent Trading Summit Discusses New Approaches to Execution Management
Trade execution has developed significantly over recent years, but there is more to come as firms apply additional intelligence to execution management with a view to gaining advantage in the market. Some approaches to improving execution management rely on new technologies, others on existing concepts, but all will be the subject of debate at next…
NovaSparks Adds NovaLink to Provide FPGA to FPGA Tick to Trade Link
NovaSparks has added NovaLink to its portfolio of field programmable gate array (FPGA) solutions, creating an FPGA-to-FPGA tick to trade link that allows trading firms to receive NovaSparks ticker plant market data directly into their FPGA trading systems. NovaLink avoids the need for market data to be consumed by data server software and distributed using…
A-Team Webinar Discusses Approaches to Best Execution under MiFID II
The best execution requirements of Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) present several challenges including the need to manage more data, time-stamp and sequence messages, and report in line with the regulation’s compliance mandate. Financial institutions that implemented the first iteration of MiFID after it came into force in 2007 may have a…
Oslo Børs Extends Stay in London Through Partnership with London Stock Exchange
Oslo Børs has evaluated its technology partnership with London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG), which hosts the Norwegian exchange’s equity, fixed income and derivatives markets, and decided to extend the relationship for five years effective from April 2017. Oslo Børs is one of over 40 exchanges and venues that use LSEG’s Millennium Exchange platform, but unlike…