Just off the presses is this technical document – IBM refers to them as redpapers – on “WebSphere MQ Low Latency Messaging in Financial Exchanges.” Among other things, it illustrates how to create a “highly available matching engine component,” using the RCMS (Reliable and Consistent Message Streaming) API. For more information, and to download the redpaper, click here.
For many quantitative trading firms and asset managers, building a self-provisioned historical market data environment remains one of the most time-consuming and resource-intensive steps in establishing a new research capability. Sourcing data, normalising symbologies, handling corporate actions and maintaining infrastructure can take months and absorb significant budget before a single model is tested. At the...
Most buy-side firms know how to find an opportunity. What an increasing number are discovering is that the gap between identifying one and acting on it has become a structural weakness. And that the weakness sits not in the front office but in the operating model underneath it. That was the recurring argument of a...
Now in its 8th year, the Eagle Alpha Alternative Data Conference managed by A-Team Group, is the premier content forum and networking event for investment firms and hedge funds.
They may be complex and burdened with a bad reputation at the moment, but derivatives are here to stay. Although Bank for International Settlements figures indicate that derivatives trading is down for the first time in 10 years, the asset class has been strongly defended by the banking and brokerage community over the last few...
