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 Financial Information Exchange (FIX) protocol began life in the early 1990s as an attempt to streamline financial transaction messaging between Salomon Brothers and Fidelity. It has since grown into the industry standard for transaction messaging between sell-side and buy-side practitioners worldwide, and is being adopted by exchanges and other execution venues as the messaging protocol for trading participants.
The Tokyo Stock Exchange’s Arrowhead trading platform, which went live on January 4, has reduced the cost of trading Japanese equities. According to statistics collated by ITG, the cost of trading Japanese equities dropped 37% in January 2010 from December 2009, the largest month-on-month fall in more than 18 months.
UBS investment bank has become the second bank in Europe, after Nomura, to set up a dark multilateral trading facility (MTF). UBS is offering open membership and the addition of a central counterparty to mitigate risk and reduce costs.
Messaging specialist 29West is collaborating with Exegy to integrate the latter’s hardware-accelerated ticker plant with its Latency Busters Messaging (LBM) middleware, in what the companies are pitching as a “strategic new offering” for enterprise-wide market data distribution. The tie-up provides 29West with new options for data feed handlers and Exegy with a high fan-out distribution mechanism, as well as a strong middleware partner.
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Podcast: The Data Management Lowdown from TSAM 2010 10 Mar 2010 |
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Video: A-Team Interviews John Jessop About his Book 16 Feb 2010 |
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A-Team Insight Podcast - February 2010 15 Feb 2010 |



















