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Recorded Webinar: How to Create an Agile Trading System
High speed, low latency trading connectivity is no longer enough to differentiate you from your competitors – so how do you add value to your trading systems? How can you create a trading platform that is: Flexible enough to accommodate the transaction lifecycle? Powerful enough to deliver the analytics for better informed trading decisions? Fast…
Talking Intelligent Trading with Andrew Delaney: MiFID II and the Coming Post-Trade Revolution
Word has it that ESMA is serious about its intention to publish its final guidance on MiFID II this month. With a possible (unconfirmed) publication date of September 24 doing the rounds, the market is bracing itself for a vigorously more prescriptive approach than under MiFID I, with less wiggle room for divergence from the…
Talking Intelligent Trading with Andrew Delaney: Plato Gets Its Socrates
Kevin Covington’s appointment to the board of Delta Capita this week underscores a perhaps more wide-ranging development: the emergence of the Plato Partnership, which named Delta Capita as its strategic consultant earlier this year. As you’re doubtless aware, Plato Partnership is an industry-led consortium that aims – in its own words – to offer “new…
Redline Adds Bloomberg B-PIPE to InRush Ticker Plant
High-performance data platform provider Redline Trading Solutions has added Bloomberg’s consolidated B-PIPE market data feed to the list of feeds available via its InRush accelerated ticker plant. Redline says the addition of B-PIPE was driven by requests from customers and by its strategy to expand globally. As a result of becoming a registered participant of…
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…
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…