TradingTech Insight White Paper
How to Create an Agile Trading System
High speed, low latency trading connectivity is no longer enough to differentiate you from your competitors – so how do you add value to your trading systems? How can you create a trading platform that is: Flexible enough to accommodate the transaction lifecycle? Powerful enough to deliver the analytics for better informed trading decisions? Fast...
How to Ensure the Integrity of Your Contributions Data
Do you worry about the validity and integrity of the data you contribute either to benchmarks like Libor or indexes, or to markets like the exchange-like Swap Execution Facilities (SEFs)? Or about the quality of the data you are selling to clients? With a marketplace growing in complexity, and more and more rules coming from...
Getting a Grip on Benchmark Contributions
A discussion of the issues surrounding bank-contributed market information for benchmarks and indexes. Recent scandals involving bank-contributed financial information – most notably 2010’s discovery of fraudulent contributions to the widely used the London Inter-Bank Offered Rate (LIBOR) benchmark – have underscored the lack of transparency and lack of control of the rates and prices financial...
An Architecture For Intelligent Trading – Leveraging Big Data in Motion for Increased Profits
Trading firms are moving on from an obsessive focus on latency reduction to a ‘new normal’ of applying intelligence to high performance trading, to ensure that they are executing the best – most profitable and least risky – trades, and not simply the fastest ones. It’s called Intelligent Trading. The Intelligent Trading approach calls for...
Managed Market Information/Access Platforms
Faced with fundamental shifts in the dynamics of the major capital markets, trading firms are looking to maintain low latency and increase agility, while reducing complexity and cost – especially when it comes to market data and market access. To introduce the issues and options related to market data infrastructure, this industry briefing discusses: Automated...
Harrington Starr’s 2013 Financial Services Technology Sector Salary Survey
In its second year this comprehensive London salary survey covers 2,966 separate salary bands ranging from entry level to senior appointments in the financial services and commodities technology sector. The survey has been produced taking data from over 16,500 technology professionals and over 2,200 companies in the industry and gives a comprehensive benchmark of salaries...
Dell Processor Acceleration Technology Industry Briefing
In the world of the financial markets, securing an edge over the competition can mean life or death for a trading firm. Whether it is acting on news alerts or price movements, determining the best trading opportunity, or delivering an order to the marketplace, microseconds mean the difference between winning or just playing. Reducing those...
Big Data in Trading and Risk Management
This industry briefing – sponsored by SAP – provides insight and analysis on how financial markets firms see Big Data approaches and technologies being leveraged for trading and risk applications. The briefing draws upon research conducted by A-Team Group’s BigDataForFinance.com web community, which included a survey of major financial markets firms based in the U.S. The survey...
Viewpoints on Latency – Thought Leadership at The Cutting Edge of Electronic Trading – November 2012
Viewpoints on Latency is a regular collection of news, thought leadership and opinion from the Low-Latency.com community. In this issue: * Pete Harris of Low-Latency.com provides the low-down on the latest developments at the cutting edge. * Dave Malik of Cisco Systems discusses the performance and analytics of the company’s Nexus 3548 switch. * Donal O’Sullivan of Corvil outlines new...
Lightweight Internet Protocol Stack
Free white paper, authored by GE Intelligent Platforms IP traffic is increasing globally at a breath-taking place. In order to support the demand of high performance IP packet processing particularly for High Frequency Trading applications demanding low latency and higher throughput, users and developers are adopting a novel approach of combining PCI Express packet processing...