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Talking Intelligent Trading with Peter Farley: A Hectic Baptism
What a great way to get involved with a new company. After only a few weeks on board with The A-Team Group it was all systems go for our two flagship events in London last week, where we were able to showcase the range of industry debate around the market dynamics driving pre- and post-trade…
Intelligent Trading Summit: Implementing an Intelligent Trading Architecture
The concept of intelligent trading is gaining momentum as trading firms acknowledge that competitive advantage is no longer only about speed, but also about a flexible and scalable architecture that can handle Big Data and analytics on the fly using technologies such as in-memory data and complex event processing. The technology elements and people skills…
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: That Was the Week that Was
I’m sure I’ve used that headline before but it seems apt: two conferences in one week, plus a data management training session in conjunction with our friends at EDM Works and JWG. Yes, last week was quite a week. For those of you that attended, I’m sure you’ll agree that Thursday’s Data Management Summit was…
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,…
McKay Brothers Builds Out Low Latency Microwave Connectivity
McKay Brothers is shaving fractions of milliseconds off its microwave routes between US financial data centres as it begins to deliver its 2014 US Microwave Roadmap. The roadmap targets latency between Aurora in Chicago, Illinois and Secaucus in New Jersey at below 8.05 milliseconds and latency between Aurora and Carteret, New Jersey at below 8.00…
ITRS Delivers Murex Monitoring Interface Via Excelian Tie-Up
ITRS has partnered with integrator Excelian to add Murex to the list of trading and risk applications handled by its Geneos performance monitoring system. The arrangement will give mutual clients access to real-time metrics on system performance for Murex solutions. ITRS already delivers predictive, real-time monitoring and management capabilities for over 100 third-party trading and…
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…
Win $10,000 of Ciara Kit at A-Team’s Intelligent Trading Summit
Ciara Technologies always strived to conquer different markets, and diversify its offering without losing sight of its customers’ needs. Although this path can be more complex than others, it has led us constantly to address new customer challenges, and pushed us to maintain high levels of competency. At Ciara, we believe that performance is the…
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,…