Click below to watch the recorded webinar, download the audio or download the white paper–for free! In 2010, financial markets participants will continue to expand their trading activities as liquidity increasingly becomes fragmented, seeking alpha in new markets, best execution in dark pools, arbitrage opportunities across the order book and by implementing high frequency and complex, multi-leg, cross asset class strategies.
SunGard has extended its Valdi Market Access solution with the addition of a hosted connectivity service to EuroTLX, a Milan based European multilateral trading facility that claims to the first fixed income market in Europe focused on retail investors.
US-based open source software specialist Marketcetera and German consulting and technology provider Lakeview Capital Market Service have created a hardware acceleration solution for algorithmic electronic trading. The two claim the new platform can achieve calculation speeds 10 to 200 times faster than those achieved by commercial trading systems running calculations on traditional hardware.
A-Team Insight Exchange is a new event series for 2010, which will combine A-Team’s expertise in financial markets IT with thought leadership from world-class technology innovators and practical experience from financial market practitioners.
The Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) call for comments on a consolidated audit Trail (CAT) did not deliver a deluge of responses, but two significant letters from FTEN and TickLab argue fervently for a solution based on commercially available technology rather than the SEC’s proposal of bespoke development. They indicate that such development that could take years to build at a cost of US$4 billion and a further annual cost of US$2.1 billion.
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