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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...

Delivering Sub-Microsecond Accurate Time to Linux Applications Around the World

Free white paper, authored by Symmetricom Trading applications at market participants require access to precise timing information – the same precise timing information – in order to transact business profitably, without risk and within regulatory edicts. The key word is precise. Accuracy is vital, and the more accurate the timestamp, the harder it is to...

Mission Possible: Turning Data Deluge into Opportunities for Financial Trading

In the financial trading markets, the race to zero is on, with participants including competing marketplaces, algorithmic trading operations, high frequency trading firms, market data aggregators and execution network providers all playing their role in pushing down transaction times from hundreds of milliseconds to tens of microseconds. Linking all of these players together is data...

High-Performance Trading Infrastructure on Demand

Financial markets firms can no longer spend what it takes to compete in the “low latency arms race.” The new reality demands high performance to be competitive with peers, but with an emphasis on upfront deployment and ongoing operational costs. High performance is measured not simply in trading execution speed and round-trip latency figures. Those...