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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…
Talking Intelligent Trading With Andrew Delaney: A New Summit Takes Shape
A week after I last chimed in about our Intelligent Trading Summit in London on March 4 – to be reprised in New York on May 13 – our programme is taking shape. What we’ve pulled together is yet another step in our journey from Low Latency infrastructures into the very brave new world of…
Managed Services in the Mainstream – It’s Not Just About Cost Anymore
Are managed services coming of age as providers of front-office trading capabilities? Certainly some of the trends we are seeing suggest they are. It was not so long ago when investment banks and other sell-side trading rooms were able to push the managed services debate into the long-grass, citing control, security and competitive advantage as…
Options Adds Quincy Extreme Data as it Builds Out Pipe Velocity Platform
Options, a provider of trading infrastructure-as-a-service, has partnered Quincy Data to offer its customers trading at Equinix NY4 and the CME access to the Quincy Extreme Data ultra low latency market data service. The addition of Quincy Extreme Data to Options’ Pipe Velocity electronic trading infrastructure solution was driven by a request from an investment…