Voltaire’s 6048 Switch - Not Just For Cloud, Low Latency Trading Too

Given it was announced at VMware’s VMworld conference and partner-fest in San Francisco earlier this week, it’s not surprising that Voltaire positioned its new Vantage 6048 10gE switch as “optimised for cloud computing.” And while it certainly is pitched at ‘cloud’ data centres with thousands of servers, it is also very relevant to the needs of medium-sized server deployments typically found underpinning low-latency financial trading applications, says Asaf Somekh, vice president of marketing, at the networking company.

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02 Sep 2010
 
Quant Fund EXQIM Selects OneTick to Support Equity Strategy Development

Nascent asset manager Exclusive Quantitative Investment Management (EXQIM) has selected OneMarketData’s OneTick complex event processing (CEP) and database software to underpin quantitative strategy development and deployment in the US and European equities markets.

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30 Aug 2010
 
Opinion: Hot Tips for Successful Arbitrage and Spread Trading for High Frequency Traders

By Markus Kämpe, Senior Product Manager, Orc Software

The political debate on high frequency trading is running at its peak. On one side, regulators like the UK Financial Services Authority (FSA) and the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) are assessing the impact of high frequency trading on financial markets and whether there is a need for new regulation. On the other, firms engaged in high frequency trading stand united, claiming their major contribution to electronic trading is the way they increase efficiency and provide liquidity to the market.

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25 Aug 2010
 
Chi-X Europe Mystery Bid: The Speculation Mounts

A day after Chi-X Europe announced it had been approached by an unidentified third party about a possible acquisition, speculation has mounted that Bats Global Markets, operator of the rival Bats Europe multilateral trading facility and of the third-largest US stock exchange, is the mystery suitor.

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25 Aug 2010
 
Colt Lays New Fibre to Cut Latency on Two European Routes

Colt is opening network routes between London and Frankfurt, and Paris and Brussels, which it claims provide the lowest latency in the market and which are already attracting customers from trading firms. Leveraging optical fibre technology from California’s Infinera, the London to Frankfurt route offers latency of 4.22 milliseconds between endpoints at London’s Poplar Business Park and Schmidstrasse in Frankfurt. The Malakoff (Paris) to Anderlecht (Brussels) route operates at a latency of 2.65ms. Both will be open by the first week of September.

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24 Aug 2010
 
Andrew’s Blog - Stand By for Turquoise 2 As Chi-X Europe Receives Approach

Chi-X Europe’s disclosure that it has received an approach from an unidentified third party about a possible acquisition doesn’t come as a complete surprise. Indeed, the development may go some way toward explaining some of the corporate wrangling – apparently heated at times – that took place toward the end of the last year, and resulted in former majority owner Instinet relinquishing control over the European MTF.

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24 Aug 2010
 
Stop Press: Chi-X Europe Approached by Potential Suitor

In a not altogether unexpected development, Chi-X Europe has issued a statement indicating that it has received an approach from an undisclosed third party about a possible acquisition of all or part of the multilateral trading facility. The statement, posted before markets opened today, is as follows:

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24 Aug 2010
 

 
 

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