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Recorded Webinar: High performance market data management technologies
The challenges and opportunities of managing market data using hardware acceleration, a deterministic approach to low latency connectivity and in-memory and other high speed databases. What are industry best practices for access to high-speed market information? How are firms using hardware acceleration? What is a deterministic approach to low latency connectivity and why is it…
Wolverine Chooses Corvil To Pinpoint Latency Issues
Trading execution services provider Wolverine Execution Services (WEX) has chosen trading analytics provider Corvil’s platform to navigate factors affecting the functions in the trading environment such as networks, messaging, order routing and client support desk actions, according to company officials. “Generally, Corvil has allowed us to tie everything together,” says Troy Googins, head of product…
Message Automation Building CCP Data Harmonization
Derivatives post-trade data management provider Message Automation’s signing of Societe Generale Corporate & Investment Banking (SG CIB) as a client on November 23 is a first step in making its central counterparty (CCP), exchange and broker data more comprehensive, said Hugh Daly, CEO and founder of Message Automation. “We started with the big clearinghouses that…
SROs To Select CAT Builder within Two Months Following SEC Approval of NMS Plan
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has approved the national market systems (NMS) plan that will create a consolidated audit trail (CAT) designed to help regulators improve tracking of trading activity in the US equity and options markets. Within two months of this week’s approval, self-regulatory organisations (SROs) must select an organisation, or plan processor…
Object Trading Adapts To Singapore Exchange’s Titan Platform
Multi-asset trading infrastructure provider Object Trading has adjusted its services to conform to Titan, the newly launched trading platform of the Singapore Exchange (SGX). Object Trading’s Direct Market Access (DMA) platform will continue to handle market data, order execution and pre-trade risk constraints for its clients who trade on SGX. Object Trading supports SGX’s QuestDT…
The Open Source Market Data Ecosystem – Open for Business
Andrew Miller of Net Effect, a consultant on the OpenMAMA project, takes look at the state of play of open initiatives in the market data space. A white paper published by A-Team last month went into some depth on the state of market data infrastructure, pain points and benefits of adoption of open source technologies….
The CAT Controversy
By Kelvin To, founder and president of Data Boiler Technologies AutoCAD has been the de facto computer-aided design (CAD) program for engineers for so long that it’s like an acronym for anything that is professionally engineered, designed and created. In capital markets, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has adopted rule 613 to establish the…
Quandl Offers Alternative Data Designed to Improve Trading Decisions
Quandl, a Toronto based data provider, is pushing into the provision of alternative datasets that can be used by banks and hedge funds to make better trading decisions. The company works with partners to gather alternative data and sells it at a relatively high price to a limited number of firms. The company started a…
Talking Intelligent Trading with Andrew Delaney: AI, Machine Learning and the Intelligent EMS
In our ongoing exploration of how to inject intelligence into today’s super-fast, highly regulated and highly competitive markets, we like to pick the brains of practitioners who’ve been at the forefront of innovation in this narrow space. With our Intelligent Trading Summit in London just a few months away – February 2, to be precise…
McKay Brothers Secures Growth Funding via IMC Investment
By Zoe Schiff Microwave connectivity specialist McKay Brothers has secured funding for future growth through a capital injection from Dutch trading technology provider IMC. The investment agreement – announced September 1 – also reaffirms McKay’s continued independence under co-founders Stéphane Tyc and Bob Meade. Terms of the investment weren’t disclosed, but the companies said funds…