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NLX Leverages Genium Inet, Equinix For Low Latency
Nasdaq OMX’s planned London-based NLX derivatives exchange will leverage the exchange group’s own Genium Inet technology to ensure low-latency matching. The exchange will base its primary matching engine at Equinix’s popular LD4 facility in Slough, west of London, where co-lo facilities will be available. When it begins operating in Q1 of 2013 (if the regulators…
Coba Proposes Commercial Framework for European Consolidated Tape
The Coba Project, an organisation set up to propose a commercial framework for an industry-led pan-European consolidated tape, reports positive feedback from a letter outlining its plans that it sent to key industry stakeholders earlier this week. Coba’s proposal wraps up the standards recommended ahead of the letter by FIX Protocol Ltd. (FPL) for the…
Q&A: November’s Low Down on Latency with Pete Harris
The Low-Latency Summit in New York City the other week created a lot of discussion and lots of questions to me. So here is a sampling from that busy day, along with my thoughts. Q: One of the conference sessions was focused on latency reduction and ROI. What was your take away from that? A:…
Can Both Microwave and Fibre Turn Up The Heat on HFT?
With trading speeds of up to 40% faster, microwave transmission looks set to be an important technology tool for high frequency traders in search of a competitive advantage, but it won’t lead to a wholesale technology change across the industry. There are limitations to microwave and this is why a combination of low latency fibre…
FIX Protocol Proposes Standards to Support a European Consolidated Tape
FIX Protocol Ltd. (FPL) has recommended standards to support the consolidation of trade reports and market data in European equity markets. It suggests the standards could play into the European consolidated tape mandated by MiFID and accelerate discussion about similar standards for fixed income and derivatives markets. The recommended standards are the result of work…
Fixnetix and Asperatus Capital Tap NovaSparks For HFT
Fixnetix and its long-time customer Asperatus Capital have tapped NovaSparks to provide them with ultra-low-latency direct market data via its FPGA-accelerated Matrix appliances. That data is used to fuel HFT strategies. Founded in 2009 in London, Asperatus is an established customer of Fixnetix, which provides it with infrastructure, hosting, co-location and connectivity services to a…
Datacom Panel: Life After HFT For FPGAs
High Frequency Trading, evolving applications and programming advances were key topics at “FPGA Advances in Market Trading” – a panel discussion held in New York City this week, hosted by Datacom Systems. The panel also included representation from Altera, ITRS, NovaSparks and Strike Technologies, and was moderated by Low-Latency.com. Among the issues debated was one…
Q&A: Thomson Reuters’ Rich Brown on Machine Readable News, Social Media and Sentiment
BigDataForFinance.com’s sister community – Low-Latency.com – just conducted an insightful Q&A with Rich Brown, who leads machine readable news programs at Thomson Reuters. It’s a topic that spans both low latency and big data, and you can read it here.
Q&A: Bruce Tolley of Solarflare on Customised Compute
Marrying compute power with low-latency network communications is increasingly necessary for financial applications looking to combine intelligence with outright speed. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com spoke with Bruce Tolley, vice president of solutions marketing at Solarflare Communications to get his take on this emerging trend. Q: What is the ApplicationOnload Engine (AOE), and how is it related to your…
Nasdaq Looks to Wireless For Data Connectivity
The Nasdaq Stock Market plans to distribute its data feeds via a low-latency wireless service, and to offer wireless-delivered data to trading firms located at its Carteret, NJ co-location facility. Those plans are outlined in a filing that the exchange is required to make with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) relating to establishing fees…