On 01 Oct 2007 in A-Team Free, A-Team Insight Quarterly, ATIQ-Issue 2 - Q4 2007, ATIQ-Statistics: The industry in numbers, Delivery Terms, ET-Low Latency Trading, Electronic Trading, LL-Feed Handlers, Low-Latency.com 
The Securities Technology Analysis Center (STAC) recently tested version 1.2 of the Exegy Ticker Plant (XTP), a hardware-accelerated solution for direct exchange feed integration. The detailed report is available at www.STACresearch.com.
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On 19 Jun 2007 in A-Team Free, A-Team Insight Quarterly, ATIQ-Issue 1 - Q3 2007, ATIQ-Statistics: The industry in numbers, Delivery Terms, RDR-Enterprise Data Management, RDR-Market Research, Reference Data Review
The challenges of managing reference data across the enterprise are well documented (not least by A-Team through its various research projects and Reference Data Review newsletter!), but the dramatic growth in the use of OTC derivatives is stirring up data management strategies. So much so, that 73 per cent of senior data managers interviewed by A-Team Group in a recent survey commissioned by enterprise data management specialist GoldenSource said that OTC derivatives are causing them to reevaluate their existing data processes (see chart 2).
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On 19 Jun 2007 in A-Team Free, A-Team Insight Quarterly, AMIT-Electronic Trading, AMIT-Market Research, ATIQ-Issue 1 - Q3 2007, ATIQ-Statistics: The industry in numbers, AsiaMarketsIT.com, Delivery Terms
A series of informal audience polls during the FIX Protocol Limited Trading Summit in Singapore in May yielded some interesting observations on the state of play with electronic trading in the Asian region, as well as some valuable insights into how Asia e-trading will develop in the coming years.
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On 19 Jun 2007 in A-Team Free, A-Team Insight Quarterly, ATIQ-Issue 1 - Q3 2007, ATIQ-Statistics: The industry in numbers, Delivery Terms, ET-Low Latency Trading, Electronic Trading
It can be expensive and time-consuming to evaluate new trading and market data technologies: there are more middleware and ticker plant providers than ever before, at least eight market data systems, several credible high performance messaging systems and a range of options on the execution side. As Peter Lankford, president of Technology Business Development Corporation (tbdCorp), says: “The good news is that there are a lot of new ways to accelerate things. The bad news is that there are a lot of new ways to accelerate things.” The Securities Technology Analysis Center (STAC) founded by tbdCorp late last year is seeking to reduce the barriers to technology evaluation with a toolset and methodology for measurement. The results of some of it activities can be seen in the charts on these pages. STAC is also working with customers and vendors to develop benchmark standards – application level benchmark specifications for market data, complex event processing and other domains. Watch this space.
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